I'm not adverse to including such things. The relaunched site will track streaming material from u2.com as well (thanks for the info on that thread on here it was easy to track the info down). It's already built into the audio discography, and entries are done for things like "Three Tracks from Glastonbury" and will be there when the site re-launches. (and it is getting closer. much closer.) i'm looking at the official channels on youtube as well (Vevo, u2official etc) on the video side.
The scope of tracking what's been 'released' has changed. And this should hopefully fix up some areas we missed the last time around.
Incontention.com? That was the stream of "Winter". As far as I've been able to find out, that wasn't an official 'release' of the song, and that someone had taken the "For your consideration" CD and had made an mp3 and posted it. I'll have to check more carefully on that one. I'm trying to avoid listing fan made remixes, rips, bootleg recordings, and so on. Wolfgang's Vault is from Bill Graham's old collection, and the material is wide ranging and likely posted there with the ok of the band, if not the actual ok of the label. I'd love to capture everything but know it's more than i could ever bite off, so happy to draw a line on the official stuff, and include some of the more legitimate side stuff. One thing I always had difficulty with was radio shows, but there's certainly a desire so am looking into the ones made available through networks like Westwood 1, or the more recent "Three Nights" stuff done in 2009. Just want to make it fit with everything else so people who don't want to see it can grab what they always wanted, without being hit with a deluge of download and streaming stuff.
The difference between the Rockpalast video as a withdrawn video and the withdrawn UABRS? One was issued by Island with U2's blessing. The other wasn't put out by the label and the band didn't give a thumbs up to it. That was the criteria I used for the old discography - was it issued by Island / Universal / Interscope? Or did it come from some third party non-lable entity. Over time that's been made difficult with the introduction of much digital material, even such things as u2.com sending out "Amazing Grace" for a download at Christmas, the RedWire release, etc. It's all broken my old "System" of saying yes and no.
So it'll all be up for consideration. But I gotta finish off the more 'official' releases first.
