Anchor

I actually have a podcast! And it's all thanks to Anchor! Anchor makes it so easy to upload podcast episodes and distribute them on various platforms (including Spotify).

Anchor/Spotify for Podcasters made it really difficult for me to publish and edit my podcast. Recording all of the audio and stuff was fine, but once it came to transitions and music, the website made it hard to get what I was hoping for. On transitions and music, it won't let you edit the audio, so you're stuck with however long the song/transition is. For example, if I liked a few seconds of a 15-second transition, I would have to either include the whole 15 seconds or nothing at all. And for the songs, the quality is fine as it is directly from Spotify, but the Anchor site makes it so it can only play a random 30 seconds of every song. Basically, you can't choose what part of the song you want to play, and it makes it so every music clip has to be 30 seconds: no more and no less. Now when it came to publishing, I was very disappointed. I needed to publish this podcast for a Homework assignment tonight so it could be on Spotify tomorrow, so I tried to publish it tonight. But once I submitted my podcast, Anchor told me that I was all set. This wasn't the case. I wondered where my podcast went. Anchor told me it was "pending review," which means a person at the company needs to listen to my podcast before it can be published. I mean, c'mon! We had no curse language or anything bad in ours; it was an informational podcast on history. This made no sense to me, and I'm currently writing this review as a method of keeping myself busy while I wait for Anchor to approve my podcast. If it's not approved by tomorrow, my school grades will suffer. Please, Anchor, I'm begging you to let my podcast be published in time!