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quoting note1avn…yu8e

Since I already have MSP for building music RSS feeds, and LNBeats for consuming music RSS feeds, I figured I can start learning how to maybe put music into notes so the musicians could have their music available in nostr for v4v as well. Having a project is a good way for me to learn something new. Then I remembered wavlake (npub1yfg…v6vg) did something a few years back called Wavman, and it's very similar to the idea I had.

I think the Wavlake guys are super innovative, and I've reached out to them from time to time with issues and bug reports, because although I have my criticisms, they're making things easier for musicians, and by and large, I think they want to help out musicians. I don't even care that they're making a business out of it and charging for their services, handling hosting is a big deal that they make easier. There's a problem, and they're charging for a solution, that's how the free market works. I just want them to open their player to all the musicians, even those that choose not to host on Wavlake.

nostr and RSS are meant to be a protocol that allows a musician to choose where they host their content, and any and all clients can find that content and play it. They are truly open protocols.

It doesn't look like much came of Wavman, maybe too soon for it's time. But I think it's an idea still worth exploring, so I'm going to continue playing around with the idea, and see about hosting artwork and mp3s on satellite.earth, or maybe a Blossom server (I'm not sure how to use one of those yet), and then having the necessary metadata in a note to allow all nostr clients to be potential music players.

If we can figure out and widely implement splittable zaps, or maybe wide adoption of Bolt 12, I think zappable media in every nostr client is highly feasible. The musicians will have the potential to get financial support for their art and the listeners can use any client they choose to support any v4v enabled musician they choose.