Finally, the Jamendo Upload Saga is over and the The Shifting Language is now available. It’s been a long struggle.
It first began with my inability to upload tracks to Jamendo. The tracks never even reached the encoding stage. After having uploading problems elsewhere, and learning about a bug in flash for linux, I decided to install wine so that I could run flash for windows in linux. Using flash for windows, I was able to upload tracks but they froze on the encoding stage and were rejected by the server. I then emailed Jamendo about this problem. I didn’t catch the response from Jamendo for a few days because Yahoo mistakenly threw the email from Jamendo in the spam folder. Jamendo asked me to send them one of the files that had been rejected the server so they could examine it. I sent a response with the file attached but never heard back. After more than a month went by, I emailed them to ask if they had received the file. They told me they had never received it and asked me to resend the file. I attached the file to an email and sent it. After more than a week went by with no response, I emailed them again to ask if they had received the file. They told me that, once again, they never received it and asked me to send it one more time. This time, however, rather than attaching the file to my email, I uploaded it to zShare and sent them the link to the file. This time I got a prompt response telling me that they had received the file and determined the problem to be a low sample rate (8k), that the file needed to have a sample rate of 44.1 k. I looked at audacity’s default settings and, indeed, the sample rate was 8k. I then spent the next few days re-recording the tracks at 44.1 k. Finally, using flash for windows, I uploaded the tracks successfully and finalized the album. Just this morning, I received an email from Jamendo telling me that the album was no longer awaiting moderation and was now publicly available. Finally.

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