Resource List

30/11/2019

The features described in this article are available only to partners who use YouTube's Content Manager to manage their copyrighted content.

The contains the details about the primary resources (sound recordings or videos) and secondary resources (associated artwork) that make up the delivery. On a 10-track Audio Album for example, resource references A1 through A10 are the sound recordings and A11 is the album artwork. YouTube uses the album artwork as a key visual element in the generated Art Tracks for recordings from this album. Single Resource Release feeds should not contain any artwork, in accordance with the DDEX profile.

YouTube does not support per-territory metadata in the . If the message includes multiple versions of the metadata for a track, YouTube uses only the version that appears first in the message.

Sound Recording Resources

Sound Recording IDs

YouTube requires every element to include a valid ISRC code. If you also track recordings using a proprietary ID code, you can include the element as a sibling to the element inside the . The format of the element is:



          USRE10400888

          custom_id_1234

Both your DDEX Party ID (Namespace) and the proprietary ID for the track are required. YouTube stores the proprietary ID value in the custom_id field of the sound recording asset (for Content ID deliveries) and the Art Track asset (for YouTube Premium deliveries). For example, the XML above results in an asset with ISRC USRE10400888 and a custom_id value of custom_id_1234.

To add different custom_id values to the Sound Recording and Art Track asset, you can use the dedicated "YOUTUBE:SR_CUSTOM_ID" and "YOUTUBE:AT_CUSTOM_ID" namespaces:



          USRE10400888

          

          
          Namespace="YOUTUBE:SR_CUSTOM_ID">sound_recording_id_1234

          

          
          Namespace="YOUTUBE:AT_CUSTOM_ID">art_track_id_1234

To add asset labels to the Sound Recording and Art Track assets, you can use the dedicated ”YOUTUBE:SR_ASSET_LABEL” and ”YOUTUBE:AT_ASSET_LABEL” namespaces:



          USRE10400888

          

          
          Namespace="YOUTUBE:SR_ASSET_LABEL">sr_asset_label1

          
          Namespace="YOUTUBE:SR_ASSET_LABEL">sr_asset_label2

          

          
          Namespace="YOUTUBE:AT_ASSET_LABEL">at_asset_label

Sound Recording Metadata

For guidelines on how to populate the Sound Recording metadata, please refer to the Music Metadata Style Guide from the Music Business Association. The metadata from the tag is used for:

Content ID deliveries: metadata stored on the Sound Recording asset.
YouTube Premium deliveries: Art Track creation and metadata stored on the Art Track asset.

Sound Recording Ownership

Sound Recording ownership is obtained from the tag under the element. As per the DDEX standard, the tag indicates where you own exclusive rights for the recording. This is separate from the Deals provided, but you should only provide Content ID deals for territories in which you own exclusive rights.

To add ownership to a SoundRecording asset, you must send either a Single Resource Release feed, or an Audio Album feed that has YouTube_ContentID as a MessageRecipient.

Sound Recording ownership is applied using the tag under the element. The must match that of the tag (or the tag, if provided).

The XML example below specifies that ABC Label owns the Sound Recording in South Africa:



        

            [...]

            A1

            [...]

            

                

                ZA

                [...]

                

                

                    

                        ABC  Label

                    

                    PADPIDAZZZZXXXXXXU

                    RightsController

                    100.00

                

            [...]

            

        [...]

Art Track Ownership

Art Tracks are created based on licensed (non-exclusive) streaming rights. Therefore, Art Track assets are never used for Content ID and the ownership on the Art Track asset will be inferred from the Deal. The element is ignored in feeds that only create Art Tracks.

Video Resources

Video IDs

YouTube requires every element to include a valid ISRC code. This ISRC code must be different from the one used for the sound recording as per IFPI guidelines. If you also track video resources using a proprietary ID code, you can include the element as a sibling to the element inside the . The format of the element is:



          USRE10400889

          custom_id_1234

YouTube stores the proprietary ID value in the custom_id field of the music video asset (for Content ID deliveries). For example, the XML above results an asset with ISRC USRE10400889 and a custom_id value of custom_id_1234.

To add asset labels to the Music Video asset, you can use the dedicated "YOUTUBE:MV_ASSET_LABEL" namespace:



          USRE10400889

          

         MyChannel

If no channel is specified in the feed, then the video will be uploaded in the default channel configured in your uploader account.

To update a previously uploaded video, you can use the dedicated "YOUTUBE:VIDEO_ID" namespace:



          USRE10400889

          9bZkp7q19f0

Music Video Metadata

For guidelines on how to populate the metadata in DDEX, please refer to the Music Metadata Style Guide from the Music Business Association. The following elements from the tag are used to populate video and metadata on YouTube:

Video: Title	`[...] <br> <TitleText><strong>A little bit of Foo</strong></TitleText><br> [...]`
Video: Tags/Keywords	`[...] Keyword1 Keyword2 [...]`
Asset: Song
Asset: Label Name	`[...] Test Label [...]`
Asset: Artists	`[...] Jonny and the Føøbars MainArtist` `Some Other Artist MainArtist [...]`
Asset: Genre	`[...] Hip Hop [...]`

The video description is populated from the , not the . See the Release List section for more information.

Music Video Ownership

Music Video ownership is obtained from the tag under the element. As per the DDEX standard, the tag indicates where you own exclusive rights for the recording. This is separate from the Deals provided, but you should only provide Content ID deals for territories in which you own exclusive rights.

Music Video ownership is applied using the tag under the element. The must match that of the tag (or the tag, if provided).

The XML example below specifies that ABC Label owns the Music Video in South Africa:

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