I am digitizing are 25 hours or more that my late father recorded at the Galax VA Fiddlers Convention 1999-2004. I tried to name it Galax Fiddlers Convention Campground Videos 1999 to 2004. The name can’t be used. Thought mabye it was a copyright thing but there are other channes with Galax Fiddlers Convention in the name, several. Tried to name it Bluegrass Convention Campgrounds. Not accepted. Tried Mabes Blugrass Video. Nope. Then it said, like yesterday, I have used to many unaccpetable names, try again in 24 hours. WTH?
Are you trying to put in a name with spaces in a field that doesn’t allow spaces? There’s a channel handle like @Mike_Mabes (no spaces allowed) and that’s different than the title.
No this is the channel name, my handle is OK.
One of my pet peeves is software that gives you a vague error message with no information for how to fix it. Is there a help page somewhere that tells you what’s valid?
My first thought was that that name might be too long, but that doesn’t explain why the others weren’t accepted.
I tried to google what the requirements are for YouTube channel names, but the best I could come up with is this (which isn’t all that helpful and isn’t official):
It does say that “YouTube allows you to change your channel name only twice within a 14-day period”—maybe your previous attempts bumped you up against that limit?
That name seems pretty common. Are you sure someone else hasn’t used it?
Finally got it to accept a name. The only thing I can figure out is that you can’t say 1999 to 2004. I found other videos that mentioned the Galax Fiddlers Convention in the name with just one year mentioned. Makes no sense to me. Not a big deal, the description just below the name mentions the years. Now I can finally get around to uploading.
What is the name of your channel? I like Bluegrass—see my username. It’s not because I eat with them.
Galax Campgrounds Bluegrass Video. Hope to have 5 or so hours up tomorrow.
Have you got a link? I’m getting results for Galax bluegrass, but it’s all five to seven years old.
The page is set to private now since no videos are up. I’ll post it here, and I will create a seperate thread for other bluegrass lovers on the site
Great, thanks!
First one is up now, a couple more later today.