Piercejeans
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Okay, everybody probably knows that anything you can SLOP together will be accepted on YouTube...actually to their credit. I am not a fan of technisnobs who look down their nose at those with less expensive / older computers. And my hats off to OBS for striving to make OBS the studio video composer for EVERYONE. A damn fine job at that, too.
That said, Spotify it appears IS a technisnob and their data requirements are vague / techified / in Greek and Hebrew. And it does not help I am guessing at most settings on OBS. I reached a point... I have had computers now for 30 years... that's right... 1995 fans with Windows 3.1. And that one is still in a closet somewhere. (I blow through a lot of hard drives. Back then... backup was expensive and time consuming. Now, we have flash drives. One little flash drive holds a modest sized hard drive. I have reached a point when in no way shape or form my life is occupied by trying to keep up with the latest, greatest, newest (fad) computer / software / iPhone. After the first 20 years I started hating Microsoft with a seething contempt.
So... you know the friend of mine who spent 5000 dollars somewhere back in time for a "Pentium 100" computer with all the fixins... I knew even back then chasing the state of the art was foolish and expensive. I am now kind of on my own little off the grid campaign against such thinking. (Microsoft upgraded Skype weekly, and I assumed they were tapping phones and gathering and selling data to the government.) How badly do you feel when you empty a bank account for a new computer only to find it called a dinosaur four years later.
Anyway, Spotify for Creators gives you no heads up on how hard you will hit your head on the "we don't take crappy videos like that" level. I am long winded, and made my first (for Spotify) video. After uploading for sometime... it was a 2.65 GB file... they reached an "error, please try again." in uploading the video. I know my old backup computer (I have a much faster better higher ram computer, but I blew the power supply out and am just too damn lazy to go through putting the new PS in the puter.) So I am taking somewhat a good round of joy for making this computer work till Jesus comes back, for the simple joy of thumbing my nose at all the "improvements" in computers. Soon no doubt, Elon Musk's NEURALINK puter will be coming out... "Oh, God!"
So I called / chatted with some tech support guy at Spotify, and told him about the error and tried reloading TWICE. He tells me... oh well if it does NOT meet their requirements, the video will not upload. Fine. Could have said that in print. Better yet, could have told us what kind of a setup WOULD work on getting vids on the Anti YouTube. But, they don't. It's all technojargon, and most peoples brains go to sleep halfway through the pages of specs. I just want to sit down, talk, and upload the vid. I am not interested in starting my own computer company.
I told him, by the way, YouTube got my 2.65 GB vid the first time. And it plays nicely on their platform... so WTF Spotify? Are you trying to be the next Sirius XM dinosaur? (Bankrupt twice in the last ten years. I blame Howard Stern. 120 million dollars a year for one jock and his crew.) They can spec themselves out of the market, or get saddled with videos exclusively from techie heads who take an hour showing you how to replace your hard drive. Yawn. Know what I mean?
So, YES, I have a question. Has anybody cracked the code on Spotify and found out just what setup and specs / res / frames / etc they do accept? Because I did play with everything after the wizard of OBS ran twice... because the setup they rejected at Spotify was setup by the wizard. So I did my best to tweak OBS to specs. By the way, I am running 24, because I am afraid if I attempted to load 31 into my machine, it would spontaneously warp into another dimension of the time space continuum. I have a Windows 7 machine from Dell (laptop) but after my EX dropped it in an airport in Texas, she gave it to me as a backup because she considered it totaled. She cracked the keyboard, etc. I use a large fan behind it to cool it, put in a new HD, some ram, and use external large monitors, speakers, mice, keyboards, etc. I try not to touch the thing too hard.
I also am now using a flash drive for the swap file, since the HD is dangerously full. (64gb... the Flash Drive that is, not the Hard Drive.) and I ran out of USB ports / slots, to I am ordering an adapter for that... everything I have is USB about... Logitech mice and headsets, flashdrives, etc.
So bottom line here... give us ex techies non techies a break... and what level of puter and specs DO we need to get a podcast on Spotify? (Joe Rogan makes 50 million dollars a year from Spotify.) I did buy a new mixer recently, but have not set it up. It's German, and the manual is cryptic. (Lines drawn to buttons and they label what the button is.) No wonder they lost two World Wars!)
So, now I have a mixer I don't know how to use... with no UBS inputs, just XLR and TRS connectors. Sigh. And I have OBS... which even after having on computers for years... still have basically no idea what the hell I am doing in SETTINGS. Might as well be spinning a roulette wheel in Vegas for choosing settings. However, my computer is NOT happy with 192 bit stereo sound and video bitrate at ... 25000 kbps. I tried 12500 kbps and the puter stumbled to its knees... and a little white flag popped out of the rear of the hard drive.
I know one of the things I did to piss off Spotify was use the wrong perspective... they want 16:9 I think. So I did change that and now at least the shape of the video is the right size. I sware, I will try again soon with a short vid and see what happens. God, I love pissing off large commercial companies! Sometime ask me what I said to the Chairman and President of Sirius XM satellite radio when I was applying for a jock position on air about a year and a half ago. I thought the Howard Stern approach would work. And I would have taken the job for a measly million a year.
Bottom line... in English and caveman language... what specs / settings do I need minimumly to satisfy Spotify for a spot on their platform? Just give me the numbers for the OBS settings that are their minimum... and I already know I need to get my other computer up and running. My God, I am on a 32 bit OS and programs.
That said, Spotify it appears IS a technisnob and their data requirements are vague / techified / in Greek and Hebrew. And it does not help I am guessing at most settings on OBS. I reached a point... I have had computers now for 30 years... that's right... 1995 fans with Windows 3.1. And that one is still in a closet somewhere. (I blow through a lot of hard drives. Back then... backup was expensive and time consuming. Now, we have flash drives. One little flash drive holds a modest sized hard drive. I have reached a point when in no way shape or form my life is occupied by trying to keep up with the latest, greatest, newest (fad) computer / software / iPhone. After the first 20 years I started hating Microsoft with a seething contempt.
So... you know the friend of mine who spent 5000 dollars somewhere back in time for a "Pentium 100" computer with all the fixins... I knew even back then chasing the state of the art was foolish and expensive. I am now kind of on my own little off the grid campaign against such thinking. (Microsoft upgraded Skype weekly, and I assumed they were tapping phones and gathering and selling data to the government.) How badly do you feel when you empty a bank account for a new computer only to find it called a dinosaur four years later.
Anyway, Spotify for Creators gives you no heads up on how hard you will hit your head on the "we don't take crappy videos like that" level. I am long winded, and made my first (for Spotify) video. After uploading for sometime... it was a 2.65 GB file... they reached an "error, please try again." in uploading the video. I know my old backup computer (I have a much faster better higher ram computer, but I blew the power supply out and am just too damn lazy to go through putting the new PS in the puter.) So I am taking somewhat a good round of joy for making this computer work till Jesus comes back, for the simple joy of thumbing my nose at all the "improvements" in computers. Soon no doubt, Elon Musk's NEURALINK puter will be coming out... "Oh, God!"
So I called / chatted with some tech support guy at Spotify, and told him about the error and tried reloading TWICE. He tells me... oh well if it does NOT meet their requirements, the video will not upload. Fine. Could have said that in print. Better yet, could have told us what kind of a setup WOULD work on getting vids on the Anti YouTube. But, they don't. It's all technojargon, and most peoples brains go to sleep halfway through the pages of specs. I just want to sit down, talk, and upload the vid. I am not interested in starting my own computer company.
I told him, by the way, YouTube got my 2.65 GB vid the first time. And it plays nicely on their platform... so WTF Spotify? Are you trying to be the next Sirius XM dinosaur? (Bankrupt twice in the last ten years. I blame Howard Stern. 120 million dollars a year for one jock and his crew.) They can spec themselves out of the market, or get saddled with videos exclusively from techie heads who take an hour showing you how to replace your hard drive. Yawn. Know what I mean?
So, YES, I have a question. Has anybody cracked the code on Spotify and found out just what setup and specs / res / frames / etc they do accept? Because I did play with everything after the wizard of OBS ran twice... because the setup they rejected at Spotify was setup by the wizard. So I did my best to tweak OBS to specs. By the way, I am running 24, because I am afraid if I attempted to load 31 into my machine, it would spontaneously warp into another dimension of the time space continuum. I have a Windows 7 machine from Dell (laptop) but after my EX dropped it in an airport in Texas, she gave it to me as a backup because she considered it totaled. She cracked the keyboard, etc. I use a large fan behind it to cool it, put in a new HD, some ram, and use external large monitors, speakers, mice, keyboards, etc. I try not to touch the thing too hard.
I also am now using a flash drive for the swap file, since the HD is dangerously full. (64gb... the Flash Drive that is, not the Hard Drive.) and I ran out of USB ports / slots, to I am ordering an adapter for that... everything I have is USB about... Logitech mice and headsets, flashdrives, etc.
So bottom line here... give us ex techies non techies a break... and what level of puter and specs DO we need to get a podcast on Spotify? (Joe Rogan makes 50 million dollars a year from Spotify.) I did buy a new mixer recently, but have not set it up. It's German, and the manual is cryptic. (Lines drawn to buttons and they label what the button is.) No wonder they lost two World Wars!)
So, now I have a mixer I don't know how to use... with no UBS inputs, just XLR and TRS connectors. Sigh. And I have OBS... which even after having on computers for years... still have basically no idea what the hell I am doing in SETTINGS. Might as well be spinning a roulette wheel in Vegas for choosing settings. However, my computer is NOT happy with 192 bit stereo sound and video bitrate at ... 25000 kbps. I tried 12500 kbps and the puter stumbled to its knees... and a little white flag popped out of the rear of the hard drive.
I know one of the things I did to piss off Spotify was use the wrong perspective... they want 16:9 I think. So I did change that and now at least the shape of the video is the right size. I sware, I will try again soon with a short vid and see what happens. God, I love pissing off large commercial companies! Sometime ask me what I said to the Chairman and President of Sirius XM satellite radio when I was applying for a jock position on air about a year and a half ago. I thought the Howard Stern approach would work. And I would have taken the job for a measly million a year.
Bottom line... in English and caveman language... what specs / settings do I need minimumly to satisfy Spotify for a spot on their platform? Just give me the numbers for the OBS settings that are their minimum... and I already know I need to get my other computer up and running. My God, I am on a 32 bit OS and programs.
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