(no music) #1051 - Dis is Wot Appened - Let me bore you to sleep

Hello, and welcome to what is it called again? It's been so long since I made a recording. Oh yeah, Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Hello and welcome.

Hope you're well and all that. And so I've got a few things to discuss. Some very disgusting things.

That's very disgusting. This things did. What have I done? Have I just deleted everything? Blimey wasn't supposed to be doing that.

Damn you. Okay. So for those that are aware of my podcast situation, and for those that aren't, I will go through what's happened and what I have been doing to correct the situation.

So the basically, I had an email a couple of weeks ago, or three weeks ago, I don't know. But it was a random email. Vinnie's making noise under the table.

It was like a generic message sent out to everyone. So I didn't think I was being particularly specifically targeted for this message. But I wasn't sure.

And the message sent said, make sure that you don't have copyrighted music. This is a spoken, predominantly spoken podcast service and all stuff like that. So I had this before.

Two years ago, or a year and a half ago, two years maybe. And I deleted all my recordings with music. Because I used to have 10 hours.

Really? Could you make a little bit more noise? I don't know what he's got there. I had I just started making 10 hour long recordings. But I would have the let's say the, for example, these ones, I'd have an hour of me talking, and then nine hours of just music.

So I deleted all of those. I had hundreds and hundreds of them, I deleted them all. And what I did is I thought, it's gone now.

This is just going back a couple of years, about 2020, I think. And then, or 2021, I'm not sure. And then I thought, okay, so they want to make they don't want just music.

What can I do to get around this issue? And what solution is there? So I came up with a solution of putting together nine hours of music, background music with me talking. And it seemed to do the trick. It's like, okay, it's still me talking.

So once the recording finished, there'd be me talking, giving positive suggestions, as well as counting down and body scans and things like that throughout that period. And for the last year, year and a half, maybe, maybe longer. That's been fine.

Never had a problem. Everyone, most of all the listeners have been happy, because they have been the most popular recordings, the 10 hour ones, the most listened to. So I thought things were good, things were going okay.

You know, on a, on a, an average day, an average month, I was getting 300,000 downloads a month, 300,000 plays, if you want to call it that. And it was ticking along. It was, you know, I was quite pleased with how it was going.

And it was just, you know, slowly growing and that. Like my beard, or my beard is quicker, quicker grower, actually. I got a proper full, full on beard at the moment.

And so I got that message a couple of weeks ago saying, it was the same message about music. And I thought, oh, are they aiming at me because I corrected my ones. I didn't have any recordings that were just music at all, not one.

They all had me talking, and maybe underneath the music, the music is the background. But they, whoever they are, and I'm guessing it's probably a computer system, AI that searches for recordings, decided that my recordings were not, didn't have any talking, just music. So I did start, I thought, okay, well, I'll start taking down the recordings, but I have to download them because I didn't have them all backed up.

And I didn't want to lose all of those recordings, because I thought, well, I have to find another place where I can have them available, you know, for the listeners, for you. And it wasn't just on this Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcast, is also on all the other podcasts as well. So the Spoken, the Relax and Sleep Hypnosis Daily, the Deep Sleep Whisper Hypnosis, as well as all the others.

So I was sort of in the process of downloading the music ones. And then once I downloaded them, I deleted them. It's very slow process.

I'm using the mobile internet on my phone, so it's a lot slower than broadband. So you know, I was getting through, I managed to download a few hundred of the, you know, recordings, including the ones with background music, five hours and 10 hours. And then I started thinking, oh, I'll just do the 10 hours, I'll get rid of the ones with background music, the five hours and just focus on downloading the 10 hours.

Because I don't know how long I've got to do this, just in case, because I wasn't sure if they were going to get rid of, or if you know, they, I didn't know if they were really focusing on me or just a general to everyone. Well, I got the answer to that. And I think it was a couple of days before I got the final message was, but it wasn't the final message, I did contact them.

And I decided, because my stats were going down dramatically, really dropped to a few 1000 a day. As like, okay, I mean, yeah, 3300 a day is a million a year, I guess nice, but just, it's a big drop. It took me years to get to the 10,000 a day.

And above and to go backwards was not a nice wasn't a nice feeling, to be honest. So I had a little brain fart, and I thought, stuff it, I'm going to upload, re upload the music ones, the 10 hour ones, just the 10 hours, none of the others. On to the Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

And I'll do the others tomorrow. That was the idea. It wasn't this wasn't last night.

This was a couple of weeks ago, or whenever last week, I'm losing track of the days. And I woke up. It was I think I woke up to do a wee wee.

It was two, three in the morning, looked at my phone had a message telling me that that Spreaker had deleted my podcast. Because I've broken their rules. But it didn't say anything else, just broken their guideline rules.

And I would not be able to have the podcast back. So they deleted the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcast, which to me is the most precious one for me personally. And I was a little bit numb, to be honest, like, whoa, whoa.

So I sent them a message. Now, in the past, they would reply within an hour or two. It took well over a day for them to reply to my message.

So maybe they're making cutbacks. I got less staff, maybe I don't know, maybe they're in trouble. I really don't know.

So I did get a message reply back in the end. And but in the meantime, I didn't know what was going to happen to my other podcasts, because I still had music on them. So what I did is, I didn't have time, didn't have time to download them, because it would have taken me a week or two to download all the different recordings that had music.

So I just deleted them all, all the ones with music I deleted off of each podcast, just so I could save the other stuff, which did the trick, I think, although I think they have deleted our podcast, unless I accidentally deleted it, which was the relax and sleep hypnosis daily. I, that seemed to disappear. But I might have deleted by accident in my, you know, frenzy.

So I went through everything went for all the different podcast episodes, anything with music I deleted. And then I started thinking, well, what am I going to do about the let me bore you to because that podcast is now gone. And luckily, luckily, luckily, luckily, I could change the RSS feed on Apple podcasts to a new feed.

So I could host the Let Me Bore You To Sleep somewhere else, a different place, which is what I've done. I opened another SoundCloud account, which I used to be with SoundCloud for about 10 years previous to about five years ago. And drink a tea drink a tea.

And then I looked through how many Let Me Bore You To Sleep recordings I had backed up. And I had quite a few. But not all of them.

So it took a fair while to go through. I probably lost I did lose a few. And I lost all the ones.

Well, I lost a lot of the ones with music anyway. But the normal recordings I did lose lost a few. I don't know maybe 4050 maybe 30 I'm not sure.

But I managed to salvage and download from the other podcasts most of the Let Me Bore You To Sleep episodes. So according to this, I've got 1120 recordings. But that also includes the and Jason's bedtime storytime.

Let me bore your pain away sleepy boring objects. So I've kind of included those but that's 29. Seven tracks or asm whisper as asmr whisper Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

So it's 10 of them. Seven tracks for let me bore your pain away. Jason's bedtime storytime 29 tracks 29 footers 28 sleepy boring objects 35.

So so it's 1120. There's 1050 there's 1050 Let Me Bore You To Sleep episodes. So there are some missing.

Not a huge amount, but there are some missing. So what I did is I, I started a new podcast on SoundCloud. I uploaded every single recording that I could manage to salvage up to the SoundCloud.

And I used the RSS feed and connected it to the podcast, the Apple podcast, and shared it with I think I shared it with Spotify as well. I'm not sure I think I did. Well, I is it took a little while to connect and update.

But now it has is it's been good. So I don't know how long I've had. When I started this, I'm not sure.

And I got the insights. This is this is the stats. No, yes.

So okay, I started this podcast, I started uploading the Let Me Bore You To Sleep, I think on the fourth of October. So it's now the 16th. So it's nearly two weeks, isn't it? Yeah.

So that's when I started uploading the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcasts to this. And then, since then, it's quite weird, because it's like 123456789 1011 1213 days, including today. And I've had 181,000 plays on that podcast in that in those 1234 13 days.

181,000. So it's quite a lot, isn't it? And I don't know, people are just playing, I don't know, who knows. But that's way more than I was getting before on the Let Me Bore You To Sleep.

Now, you know, I don't know, who knows what's going to happen. But now, just for your information, if you're interested, the Let Me Bore You To Sleep is still on Apple podcast. still in the same place.

It is. Let me see if it's on Spotify, because I've got the link here. Oh, do you ever hear the thing about like, the term learning, learning from your mistakes? Well, here's is a little story about someone that didn't learn from their mistakes.

You ready? Oh, man, you know what I did? So now got on SoundCloud. And I thought to myself, you know, what, why don't I just upload the ones of music to SoundCloud? Because they don't have those rules the rules that Spreaker have. And overnight, I received and today received multiple emails from Spotify.

Not for this podcast. So Let Me Bore You To Sleep from the other one, because I've got two now. I did have three, but I got rid of one.

And, and telling me that it broke the rules. And they've deleted them because they have music. I think, what did it say? Did it say copyrighted music? Let's have a look.

It said, SoundCloud. Nope. Right, no reply from Spotify.

No reply. On behalf of no reply. Hi there, we found that your podcast contains content that violates our content policies, and have removed the following episodes.

Relax, sleep and pain relief. That just that's the podcast name. So now I've got the Let Me Bore You To Sleep on SoundCloud.

And I've also got relax, sleep and pain relief, which is the the other SoundCloud account. And on there, I've got all of my recordings that I could salvage from all the different podcasts. So it deleted the 10 hours number 2736 365 fairies necklaces.

So basically, I woke up to messages from Spotify, multiple messages saying that they'd deleted my 10 hour recordings because they violate violated their guidelines, whatever they are. Perhaps I should read, perhaps I should read them. Now, I can't understand it because I've been doing the 10 hour recordings and the ones with music for absolutely ages.

Suddenly, they're not allowed. So what I did is I deleted all the ones I uploaded last night, the ones with music, so they're now gone. So I basically can't have anything with background music anymore.

Sorry about that. You're gonna have to, well not have to, but all I can offer you is my voice. And now else, it's weird because I was using copyright free music.

And I was putting down the copyright details, letting people know where it was from on the podcasts and on YouTube and everything like that. And yeah, it's weird, weird, weird, weird. So it's been strange because what's happened is, like today on the Let Me Bore You To Sleep, it doesn't seem to have been hugely affected by what I did, you know, with the music.

So I've had 8117 plays today on the Let Me Bore You To Sleep. I deleted, well they deleted on spot on. On the Let Me Boy, yeah, on the Let Me Bore You To Sleep Spotify.

It's saying I've only had 203 streams all time of that podcast. So, you know, Spotify is not necessarily, I'm not getting a lot on Spotify anyway. So I'm assuming, according to this third party apps, RSS feeds today 60 plays on podcast addict, Stitch Radio 50 plays and Overcast 22 plays.

So I guess the rest is just on Apple. So it's, yeah, it's a good day, 8117. And, you know, like between two and three o'clock, it's now 543 in the afternoon.

But between two and three, I had 256 plays. Between six or seven in the morning, I had 1701 plays. So, you know, it's, you know, I'm kind of pleased how it's going as far as considering all the other rubbish that I've had to kind of go through.

It seems as if the Let Me Bore You To Sleep has been salvaged, salvaged. And so what we come to next is the Relax and Sleep, Relax, Sleep and Pain Relief Hypnosis, which is so Relax, Sleep and Pain Relief Hypnosis. It's on Apple and I'm not sure if it's on.

I'm not sure if it's on. It must be on. What's his name? Spotify, because they're the ones that clearly, you know, said that I was at or claim your podcast get started podcast RSS 33616616639999.

What's the RSS feed? So I'm hoping it hasn't completely got rid of it. But still, what's weird it's really weird you see this your past the cast might already be on Spotify hit next to check and then underneath says have you read our platform rules if not click here and I always ignore the rules and perhaps I need to not maybe oh would you record would you record maybe I need to be listening to the rules perhaps I don't know I'm not sure Wow oh dear so I've got a code I'm gonna choose two three seven here we go two three seven nine eight

you're verified let's finish up so I just verified the relaxed sleep and pain relief with Spotify I thought it was already done oh well select category lifestyle and health alternative health choose three subcategories would be a subcategory and self-help hobbies relaxation course relaxation blimey okay done so you're in start exploring let's go so I can get the analytics for this one so I've got Let Me Bore You To Sleep relax and sleep hypnosis relax and sleep pain relief Jason Newland so there's no details of this no listeners how weird but

according to this it's not even showing all of the episodes last 70 days all time how weird how weird okay episodes so I don't know it's not showing anything so but it is on Apple so yeah but what was weird about this one though is today in the last okay since in the last one two three four five six in the last six days I've had 95,000 plays so I created this in October 2011 October the 11th rather blimey where am I where's my brain and today so far 28,800 downloads

which sounds good until I look at the stats and 11 o'clock this morning I had 7,488 downloads or plays okay that's at 11 o'clock between 12 and 1 I had one play between 1 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon I had six plays between between 2 and 3 o'clock I had four plays and then it went up a little bit between 3 and 4 o'clock I had 398 plays it's just really weird I can't figure it all out honestly I mean the first day I uploaded them it's always going to

be the most because I uploaded quite a few recordings but you know I'd had 15,811 but yesterday I had 4,406 plays which is still a lot more than I would normally get on one podcast and but today I said 28,866 weird I can't figure it out so I'm glad that I've got that little bit extra because when I started this podcast I'd only had the like one play six plays four plays and I was starting to think oh oh what's going on because I've had less than that in some of

the other hours as well but it's very low one play in a whole hour but maybe that's a time when people are just busy or asleep or whatever yeah well so I've managed to save two podcasts so the relaxed sleep I changed it it was originally relax what was it originally relax hypnosis for stress anxiety panic attacks and then it became relaxed hypnosis stress and anxiety so now I kind of incorporated all of those things into the title relaxed sleep and pain relief hypnosis so hopefully that will kind of all

of the recordings that I've got that I was able to save the ones without music that is they're all on there they're all on the on that podcast which you can get on well you can get it on SoundCloud you can also get it on Apple and Spotify as well so relax sleep and pain relief hypnosis that's the name of that podcast and the other one is Let Me Bore You To Sleep now when you go to that one this one the relax and sleep hypno relax sleep and pain relief

hypnosis there are playlists which you won't get probably I don't know if you'll have access to that if you go on to Spotify or Apple podcasts you might have to go to SoundCloud to get access to them so I put I've got quite a few playlists there's the relax and sleep hypnosis daily so all of those recordings that I could salvage deep sleep whisper hypnosis again I didn't manage to save all of them but most of them relaxation hypnosis of stress and anxiety there's 216 of those so that's most of

them saved stop smoking hypnosis playlist I managed to save all of those Let Me Bore You To Sleep there's a little it won't allow more than 499 tracks in each playlist so I'm gonna have to change that around so I've only got the first 500 in that let me boy your pain away all seven are there ASMR whisper Let Me Bore You To Sleep so it's 10 tracks there Jason's bedtime story time 28 tracks it's funny because the other one had 29 in it sleepy boy and objects 35 tracks stress

and pain relief there are 47 tracks so that's yeah relax asleep hypnosis daily as well 2204 so that's all of the playlists really of the main podcasts on that podcast but what I've done what I've done is I'm still in the process of building the website so please you know bear with me while I do that because it takes there's a lot of work goes into it and I've always already messed up on a couple of things I'm gonna have to redo but at the moment what I've done is I've

got three different podcasts on there relax and the relax sleep relax what ones have I got deep sleep whisper hypnosis the ASMR deep sleep whisper hypnosis Let Me Bore You To Sleep and relax and sleep hypnosis daily so there's three podcasts on the website and when you click on those it will take you to a list and there's it just lists every single one that there is and you click on each one and you can hopefully when it's when it's completed that is you'll be able to stream it and play

the recording without doing anything for free of course and then also you can download the recording download it the actual file to your laptop your phone whatever and for free as well now I've got quite a few finished but still there's still a fair bit of work to do I've had a few people download the last couple of days and I understand why as well because I guess if you you got used to listening and then suddenly the recordings weren't there it's a little bit of a shock and it was

a shock to me as well I wasn't prepared really for what happened to lose the as much stuff as I did luckily most of the things I lost were the ones with the music so the music's gone that's it you know try I tried to bring it back I couldn't even do it on the SoundCloud so hopefully I mean there are still thousands of recordings well thousands how much does it work out so 204 should we add this up see how many recordings are on the actual on this podcast come

on shall we it'll be fun be fun who's watching Big Brother by the way the UK version I am right 204 204 I want to calculate I'm using the currency calculator okay come on okay right let's get rid of that 204 and now it's trying to get me to play a game this is a currency I want a calculator okay so 204 plus 440 plus 440 plus 216 216 plus 15 plus 1050 plus 7 plus 10 plus 28 plus 35 plus 47 so there are according to this 2,052 recordings on

that podcast which means there will be 2,052 recordings on my website available to download for free as well as stream as well 2,052 that's without any background music that's just that's quite a lot isn't it really blimey and I asked most of that it's only in the last five years four or five years a lot of the other ones they're not even around anymore I've got them in a you know backed up but I don't sort of use them anymore so 2050 according to this website is 2046 I'm not quite

sure but still you know it take you a while to listen to them all and so I'll move from this one so this this is that's the relax sleep and pain relief hypnosis okay so what do I come out of there and then go back into the let me boil you sleep one so Let Me Bore You To Sleep yes yes oh yes okay here we are so I've done a similar thing with this as well so I've got today four three four five okay eight thousand one hundred twenty five

that's all right so what I've done is I have also got playlists on this one as well there are the is did I tell you already about that I'm not sure ASMR whisper Let Me Bore You To Sleep let me boil your pain away Jason's bedtime story time sleepy boring objects so I've got those different playlists but I've also got playlists for the recordings for the actual Let Me Bore You To Sleep and so there's one to one to fifty fifty one to a hundred hundred and one to 150 151

200 201 to 250 251 to 300 301 to 350 and I've done it in fifties because you can scroll down it just seems a lot less scrolling down and to be fair in all reality is most podcast hosts will only give you I think Spotify gives you the last 500 recordings some places only give you the last 250 others the last hundred and fifty so in order to get hold of the older recordings I thought I'd put them into playlists which means you can then go on to the SoundCloud and

search for me there if you want and you can find the playlists I've also I've not made it available yet but I've also made I put the playlists on my website now it's not available yet because I have to sort out how I'm going to organize the pages so I put all 10 or 11 of those playlists on my website so you'll be able to just click on playlists and click on let me and it'll give you and I'll just choose which number 1 to 50 or 51 to whatever you

know I can't add 50 okay fair enough I needed a calculator for that and the calculator is all the way over there and it's too far to travel oops so I will put playlists for all the other stuff as well you know like for the Let Me Bore You To Sleep ASMR or the Jason's bedtime story time so I'll add playlists for them as well just to make it a little bit easier make it a bit easier for you so then you can sort of because you might not want to

download the actual recording that is available that will be available for every recording I've got but as I'm sure you understand it's gonna take a while to get that all done on the website now most of the stuff on the podcast are now completed most there's still a little bit of stuff to do but generally the playlists are made and they're connected I need to connect to more different podcasts provide host not hosts apps and things and with the Spreaker I've deleted everything but two podcasts and I've just got a

couple of episodes on each of those because I've had to I've cancelled the subscription on there so on the 18th I think it is two days away it will go down to the free version so I'll just leave it as it is and I'll leave the couple of podcasts on there I think there's a certain amount it can have up to three hours or something free so that's what I'll do make sure this you know I'm not breaking their rules because you know I don't like to break rule this you

know and I'll leave that as it is for now but I won't be paying the hundred pound or hundred and twenty pound or whatever it was for them anymore it's 108 I forget 120 euros I think is a month so that's gone I did have three SoundCloud accounts I owned one yesterday and I tried to do the deep sleep whisper one and I uploaded all the deep sleep whisper recordings there because that was another podcast it was fairly yeah it did quite well but for some reason it just wouldn't link

to Apple podcasts so what I did is all the episodes are in a playlist on the relax sleep and pain relief podcast or hypnosis podcast in a playlist and I'll be on my website as well so what I'll do I know it's not ideal but you know they're all on there they're they're all available on that podcast so I will what I've done is I've got rid of that I got rid of that podcast so it's not on the speaker anymore it's not available anywhere I mean some of the recordings

are still available on Spotify because I do keep some recordings sometimes but not all of them they'll might keep a handful or stay on there but you won't have access to all of them but they are available on Spotify on the relaxation sleep and pain relief hypnosis podcast as well as on Apple and maybe some other places I have to look into that see where they are and where I can add them so yeah that's kind of kind of updated now really kind of updated it wasn't very exciting but it's

probably the most exciting recording I've ever done yeah you know what a couple of weeks ago I really when I woke up to that message was it 13 days ago or whatever and I just thought oh oh dear because I've known for a long time from the stats that the most popular recordings were the long ones and I thought oh and I've been pleasantly surprised at how many people are playing the recordings of the you know well they're not new podcasts but they're you know this just they've replaced the old

ones but we've using a sound cloud instead of speaker I'm just getting so much more traffic than before maybe it's one of those things where it might be you know like oh we're gonna lose this perhaps we should I don't know who knows I don't know what I'm trying to say but I do I do know what I'm trying now I don't know it just might be a case of maybe it's because the earlier ones were available you know some of the old recordings that no one could get hold of

before and you know suddenly they were able to get hold of them but if you're on probably none of the podcasts apps will give you access to the early recordings past number 500 so you get 501 onwards but you know number 312 or 209 of the Let Me Bore You To Sleep the only way you could get to them probably to get to listen to them would be to either go to my sound cloud because I think I'm pretty sure you can just you'll be able to profile I'm going to

profile so it must be yes you can you can go there and all you can just keep skipping down although it is in playlists so if you want to listen to number 209 just go to playlist 201 to 250 and just click on that and or you can just yeah and they'll just show you and you can play it or if you if you got the time you can just skim down and keep skimming down keep skimming down and keep skimming down and eventually you'll get to the episode 209 I'm

not going to do that now because it takes I was kind of bothered I'm ready look at this what does the future hold Let Me Bore You To Sleep what does the future hold I need to change some of this as well because the there's a few apostrophes and stuff missing so I need to kind of correct some of that not that people seem too bothered about it but number 978 was a 27th of February this year it's Vinnie's first birthday blimey number 974 17th of February this year I've lost

one stone I need to do another one says I'll put it back on in 2001 I found it again yeah in 2001 I had a black-and-white TV whoops I just pressed the play button the trophy blimey oh another thing is I've lost probably most of the images as well for the podcast episodes still the titles still got most of the titles not all of them but you know I'm sure you can understand that I had a limited time I didn't know when I was going to lose the stuff so I

downloaded it and deleted them I didn't I've got I've probably got a few hundred images backed up that I could find but that's that's not like a huge priority right now I mean to be fair I started thinking you know I could spend the next three months the whole of this year you know October November December working on a website and not make any recordings just focus on that because it will take that long if not longer to complete the website to make it you know functional so all of the

stuff is available all 2050 recordings are available to download and to stream it will take a while but then I thought well I don't really although that needs to be done I also do want to be making recordings you know you know I mean in it so here I am making all that particular recording and that's it really I don't there's anything else to say on this particular subject I'm glad I was able to save a lot of the stuff and I did have a few podcasts with the same stuff

on which is good it's meant they were all popular as well so individually that's why I kept them going so there was a one two one two three three podcasts I think no two podcasts that over four million downloads and they're gone now but this and the relaxation sleep and him and pain relief hypnosis that was the one that had the four million plus over the last few years so that it's just been renamed a little bit and it's still the same link on Apple podcasts so and that's where all

my recordings are but specifically for the Let Me Bore You To Sleep still in the same place on Apple podcasts and although I went to what's his name Spotify and it had completely different stuff on there I wasn't updated at all it was very yeah there's a lot of stuff missing so I'm not quite sure what's going on with Spotify but we'll see we'll see see what happens so yeah that's kind of it really just for you know thank you for your support thank you for those people left messages and

I have tried to reply but sometimes I guess maybe I forget and I don't I haven't replied to everything if I haven't then I do apologize so I'm going now thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy be gentle with yourself lots of love and thank you for your support bye