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Why are some Amara pages now titled by the URL - instead of by the YT title - of the video they stream?

Today I noticed that some YouTube-based Amara pages are now titled by the URL - instead of by the YT title - of the video they stream - just as normally happens by default when you create an Amara page from the URL of an .mp4 file [1].

Examples:
  1. http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/zaMTx2X5luiH/info, made from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOaxAckFCuQ is titled "www.youtube.com/.../watch?v=TOaxAckFCuQ" instead of "Miko Peled Seattle. Oct. 1, 2012", like its source YT video.
  2. http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/oBIQJLutyPTW/info, made from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT5msu-dap8, is titled "www.youtube.com/.../watch?v=OT5msu-dap8", instead of "Backstreet Boys - Shape Of My Heart", like its source YT video
  3. http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/fTFAWBzHwoas/info, made from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkFBG4dvSSo, is titled "www.youtube.com/.../watch?v=EkFBG4dvSSo". instead of  "RNC Sham 2012 Corruption Beyond Belief", like its source YT video.

 

Why does that now happen to YT-based Amara pages - and why does it happen to some of them, but not to other ones?

 

 

[1] Actually, there is a difference with Amara pages made from URLs of mp4 files, where that file URL title obtains everywhere, also in teams' video lists. With the YT-base pages above, their YT title does appear correctly e.g. the list of a team's video.

I.e. example 2. is correctly listed as RNC Sham 2012 Corruption Beyond Belief in the Captions Requested videos, and example 3. is correctly listed as Backstreet Boys - Shape Of My Heart in the Music Captioning videos.


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Hi Claude!

This was an issue due to the database migration which took place last Thursday. It was fixed during the weekend, but if you see anything like this again let us know!
Update: the Amara video pages I mentioned earlier are now appearing with the same title as the YT video they stream, normally.
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