Content policy

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This page explains what kind of entries are accepted.

General

Sensitive personal information should not be shared in entries or user profiles.

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Artists

Main requirements

1. Each artist entry should be included in at least one song or album.

Exceptions:

Base (“Unknown”) voicebank entries.
People who play a large role in a vocal-synth event (e.g. DJ).
Associated artists for voicebanks.

This applies to cover unifier songs as well (use the custom artist feature).

For illustrators, this rule can be ambiguous.

Stock photo credits should generally be credited with the custom artist feature (no entry).
Illustrators with voice-synth related artworks should have an entry.
Illustrators who collaborate a lot with different voice-synth artists should have an entry.

Artists that are directly participating/collaborating (including illustrators) should/can have artist entries: Animators, lyricists, other individuals, etc.

Artist entry is usually not necessary, if a person is credited for a small/ambiguous role, such as “advice”.

3. Make sure that the artist is not listed here.

Voicebanks

Unreleased voicebanks with no demo songs should not be added.

Artist entries for unofficial voicebanks, generated from existing singing voices without consent are not allowed. Song credits should be added with “custom artist” feature along with the unofficial voicebank/Jinriki tag. Keep in mind that RVC AI models generally fall under this category, unless the model is authorized.

Fan-made derivatives such as pitchbends and genderswaps such as Hagane Miku, should not be added as artist entries, as they are not voicebanks of their own. Corresponding tags should be used instead: https://vocadb.net/T/92/derivative.

Official derivatives made or commissioned by the original creator of the voicebank, whether for Vocaloid or UTAU, are allowed.

Albums

The album needs to have at least one track with voice synth vocals (Vocaloid/UTAU/Cevio/etc.).

Additionally, the album must have had a physical (i.e. CD) or digital release (i.e. Bandcamp, Spotify, etc.) at some point in time. Sometimes artists “publish” their song collections as a playlist which is insufficent for an album entry.

Unofficial, fanmade compilation albums (bootlegs) where the author(s) are not involved in creating the songs are generally not allowed. There can be some exceptions if the albums are widely known, for example the Hatsune Miku 1st Song Album. This is decided on a case-by-case basis and staff members reserve the right to remove these entries should they deem it necessary.

Songs

Make sure that the (main) artist of the song is not listed here.

Songs without voice-synth vocals (vocaloid/utau/cevio/etc.) should not be added, with a few exceptions:

Song is part of an album entry (tracks by out-of-scope artists should be created as custom tracks)
Song has at least 5 voice-synth covers (these can be added as cover unifier entries)

“Prompt vocal” song entries (AI generative music synthesis with uncontrolled vocals) are not allowed. Songs made with Suno for example.

Work in progress (WIP) songs/trailers should not be added, except voicebank demos.

Teasers that are different from the actual songs that they promote are allowed (example).

Song entries should not be created based on unpublished YouTube premieres.

Adding links that have not yet premiered to existing song entries is fine, as long as the song entry has some other playable link.

Events

Event entries have no creation requirements, as long as they apply to at least one album/song.