I don’t know for how long this issue has been going on, and whether I’m the only one facing this or if it’s a universal bug, but I noticed this day that, unless you add an URL to a YouTube video to a melody made in HookPad, it doesn’t allow you to add it to the HookTheory database. I’m almost certain that it hasn’t always been this way, although I’ve seen the “Submit” button missing previously, but I have no idea how I managed to get around it back then anymore.
I found out when I tried adding a pretty obscure song that can’t be found anywhere on YouTube as a TheoryTab, but the “Submit” button simply wasn’t there. To ensure I haven’t been soft-blocked from adding new TheoryTabs for some reason, I added a corresponding YouTube video to a HookPad cover I made of a much more well-known song, and sure enough, the “Submit” button suddenly appeared, so it seems to be entirely tied to whether the melody has a YouTube URL attached rather than having something to do with my account specifically.
Is this intentional, to prevent people from adding songs that can’t be found on YouTube (if so, why?), or is it actually a real bug? Anyways, I hope this will get changed soon, because it really limits what songs we can add to the database. The value or relevance of a song shouldn’t be determined by whether there’s a YouTube video of it, in my opinion.
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What’s the song? Maybe you can record the audio of the song on your computer with Audacity, upload it to YouTube, and use that video as the link. Be the savior that you were looking for.
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That would be a very tedious process. The song has more or less disappeared from the internet, and is now only left in a very long Soundcloud mix with a lot of songs. I could try to get the audio of the song by recording my device while playing the song from the Soundcloud mix, but I don’t expect the quality to be that good, since it wouldn’t be a direct MP3 rip of the Soundcloud mix itself. (I don’t think it’s even possible to rip audio files from Soundcloud anymore)
Judging by the popularity of this tab, I don’t think that quality matters in your case.
Edit: I noticed that you have actually contributed to this tab, and I think that it’s in D Dorian, not A minor.
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Well, most people in the thread about that song the other day seemed to think it’s in A minor mode, like I do. As soon as the v (E minor) chord plays after the iv (D minor) chord, it definitely sounds like A minor to me (also probably in part because progressions in Dorian with a i chord (D minor in this case) followed by a ii chord (E minor in this case) are quite unusual, whereas it would make more sense in the context of them being iv and v chords in a minor progression), and when it lands on the i (A minor) chord it really sounds like a resolution to me, further reinforcing the feeling that it’s in A minor mode.
I guess this just goes to show that there’s some degree of subjectivity to what mode/key a song is in, with not everyone perceiving music in exactly the same way, especially regarding songs with a less stable/grounded tonal center such as this one. That being said, I’d still be hard-pressed to find anyone who perceives “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley to be in D#/E♭ Dorian instead of A#/B♭ minor mode, based on the fact that the chord progression of the intro and chorus (iv-VII-v-i) starts with with a D#/E♭ minor chord, though. 
PS: I hope that we can at least all agree that “How You Remind Me” by Nickelback is in C minor/Dorian, and not in A#/B♭ Mixolydian as certain people seem to suggest. 
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I still disagree about Ulterior Motives, but I agree about Never Gonna Give You Up and How You Remind Me.
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I’ve decided to follow up on your advice, and have recorded the song from the Soundcloud mix I found it in and uploaded the audio to YouTube. The song in question is “Blaxxtom - Las Vegas”.
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Good stuff. Glad that you were able to upload it.
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