Today is the earliest my replacement mower belt can arrive, checking on the tracking it doesn’t seem likely. To prepare and possibly speed things up I’ll go to ACE hardware and see if they sell the belt I need, I need to go there anyway for bags of sand and to match a screw. The sand is for the base of an umbrella stand and the screw is actually mower related. Around the mower belt pulleys are metal covers held in place by two screws, I’m guessing I hadn’t been tightening them all the way and have lost two screws. Since there is a pully on each side I still have enough to attach one cover, but I’m hoping to find some replacements at the store. Since my Youtube presence has gotten off the ground I turned my attention towards Spotify today. Every platform has it’s own rules and regulations, it gets frustrating trying to fit them all. Even this website has it’s limitations. In making an ad for my podcast I needed to record a 30 second audio clip and got frustrated when I tried to upload it. I recorded on the same platform I record the podcast, so I thought it’d be easy. My first attempt was with an MP3 file, it was rejected telling me it needed to be in stereo, I don’t know what to do with that info as it seemed to be in stereo. Next I reprocessed the clip and saved it as a WAV file, when I tried to upload that, my rejection note was “check creative guidelines”. Too bad there was no link in sight to check those guidelines, I went through a couple programs to record audio until I made progress with Garageband. Thankfully I have been learning Garageband to prepare for making an intro for the show. The problem then was the audio sounded much different, but after some tweaking everything got resolved and submitted, now I can return to the physical world.
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