Q: in an earlier question you mentioned that you had to go through quite a bit to keep you content on spotify, but you said 'it was a story for another time.' What is it that happened there?
A: basically you can't just upload your music to spotify. you have to pay somebody 'more important' who has the privilege to do it. some of these services charge a fee for every song, which would never work for me, because i plan on releasing a lot of songs. i found a service lets you do it unlimited for a yearly fee, and they deliver the song within a couple days (sometimes next day) to itunes and spotify. but unfortunately they refuse to send any songs that are less than 1 minute. so i actually had to sign up for a second service which allows short songs, but they take about 4 weeks to send it. so i am paying 2 different companies to upload my songs for me, depending on whether they are less or more than a minute. also, when it comes to putting my umbrella icon on my channel, i have mostly given up on that. they only take images from a database called "Rovi," and i have submitted my image to the database, but it never seems to go through. i read somewhere that Rovi basically only accepts who they want, and there's nothing i can do