frozen octopus

In a fun "battle" with the service that distributes music to music stores like Apple Music or Spotify right now. The band I am in has songs that are about 75% Japanese and 25% English on our new release. When I submitted the release, I needed to choose a language for the release. 75 is more than 25, so I selected Japanese. Then, with each song, I set the language to what language it is in. I clicked send and waited to hear from them.

I got a form email saying due to some issue, one of the stores can't accept it. I wrote back asking what the issue is and got a response saying due to some language issue, they couldn't submit it.

As a test, I resubmitted the album and set the release language to English and set the tracks to their language. I am waiting to see if English is okay for whatever store is blocking submission.

I don’t really get why I need to set the language at all for our music though.

I have a morning shortcut I run that runs a bunch of other micro shortcuts. An example would be one that selects a random verb for me to focus on today in Japanese.

Since I just moved over from Things 3 to Reminders, I needed to update a lot of shortcuts to add Reminders for today in from the the shortcuts. It took me a second to figure it out. Hopefully this will help someone else in the future with this too.

Reminder for Today (right now)

1. Add the "Add New Reminder" action to your Shortcut.
2. Add your text to the "Reminder" box.
3. Select where the reminder will go or leave it as Inbox.
4. Click on "No Alert" and set it to Alert.
5. Leave it set to "At Time".
6. Right click on the last box (2:00) and choose Current Date.

Other Idea

Play with the Adjust Date action to have the Reminder set to some time later.

I randomly generated this drum pattern to work on today.

LBBRLBRR

It was a little tricky at first so I broke it up into some chunks to let my hands get used to the pieces.

• LB--
• BR--
• LBB-
• BRL-
• RLB-
• BRR-

Did these for 5-10 minutes and then the full pattern was a lot smoother when I went back to it.

There were some missing description fields on a site I was working on. I filled them in because that is what one does when you find an empty description field or alt tag. This, of course, made me worried about all the other sites we maintain. So I started in on checking them.

Since the sites I am working on are with Drupal, I needed to figure out the quickest yet easiest way to get a spreadsheet of nodes with missing descriptions. Views popped into my mind right away because Views can make a table. You can quickly set up a view with the fields you need to check on.

Here is my hacky way of getting the info out of Drupal and into a spreadsheet. I was able to get all the information I needed from five sites in under ten minutes with this though.

1. Make a view and name it something you can remember (ex: junk).
2. Make a block in your view and set it to table under format.
3. Add the fields you need to check on. Mine are Title, Description, and Link to Content.
4. Set Link to Content to output the URL as text and to use absolute link.
5. In the preview, you will now have a table of all your content. Copy that table and paste it into your spreadsheet app.
6. Delete the view if you are done with it.

There are probably other ways but this gets the job done for me.

I am having good luck working with a couple simple drum patterns lately. On their own they are simple like lego blocks. When you use them together you can build.

RLLK or LRRK
RRLK or LLRK
RLK or LRK

I am practicing them as both straight and swing. It's good to be able to do both because I think the more solid my swing is makes straight more tight. That is just a theory.