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Artists literally cannot do anything.

To simply change an album cover, first you have to submit a request with your publisher. If you're on good terms they'll get to it in a reasonable amount of time and reach out to Spotify. They'll review it if its actually acceptable and decide if you'll be censored. At some point a month or so down the line, the album cover will change, you might get an email.

Imagine if there was an alternative network where you can just permissionlessly click upload cover art, hit save, and be done with it.

inpc 3mo ago

My band took our music of that platform a couple of years back after I had a very frustrating experience with the distribution saying our music had been flagged for copyright, despite not being sample based. Most likely caused by us using the same instrument plugin setting that a bigger artist had used somewhere, at least that’s the best correlation I could think of. It certainly wasn’t the only reason for pulling our music but it was the last straw as far as I was concerned. These platforms will make artists jump through all kinds of hoops to ultimately be a cheap advertising agency for the platform itself. Fuck them.

The irony being that even though our reach shrank massively, we made more money focusing through Bandcamp… and now that’s enshittifying so the next logical step is to release on infrastructure we can control.

It’s a harder road for sure but at least I’m not some hoe saying ‘please add us on Spotify, Daniel Elk wants more war tech’.

That said, I still haven’t worked out how to do splits with keysend but I’ll get there.

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ChadF and 33 others 3mo ago

What are you making the feed with?

You can also just use a lightning address now since the apps have been updated now to handle them except Podverse.

BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 3mo ago

We tested lnaddress the other day for The Trusted and it works. We even had a mix of keysend AND lnaddress within the same set of splits.

inpc 3mo ago

Ah man I hope I can do that in Castopod. My aim is to start onboarding irl musician friends but I need to get a proper understanding of things before hand, otherwise I’m just causing confusion and helping no one.

ChadF and 33 others 3mo ago

All I saw was this and it doesn't show Value which is what you need. Funding does allow links to things like PayPal.

Podcasting 2.0 is just a list of features apps and services can use so they are all different.

inpc 3mo ago

Yeah that’s about as much as I learned reading their docs!

inpc 3mo ago

Castopod, Albyhub created the snippet of code I needed to add to the RSS and alls well with that but given the format, I don’t understand how to add a contributor as the code generated also ties back to my node. Unfortunately there’s nothing at all in the Castopod docs covering PC2 features, only that they’re enabled.

I need to have a read up but I’ve yet to find an easy to understand source, I’ve looked through the podcastindex resources and some of the Bluburry guides but most of the information goes above my current skill level. I’m sure I’m able to do it, just not there yet!

BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 3mo ago

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徒settoセット 𓁣 🏴 3mo ago

nostr:nprofile1qqszxk6n5yqh67ak2mqjtrd4fgxf2clyenvvafntv5r9n4knmu5ezfcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tc95f6pm might know.

nobody 3mo ago

I’ve been using this as reference:

https://podcasting2.org/docs/podcast-namespace/tags/value-recipient

And then once I’ve made that bit, in Castopod as nostr:npub1f49twdlzlw667r74jz6t06xxlemd8gp2j7g77l76easpl8jsltvqvlzpez has said, there’s a box to copy and paste it into either in “edit podcast” if you want it to apply to every episode, or “edit episode” if it changes each episode. It’s called “additional RSS tags”.

徒settoセット 𓁣 🏴 3mo ago

Currently, you value block looks like this:

Say your manager, George, in his endless generosity suggests you add a split for nostr:nprofile1qqszxk6n5yqh67ak2mqjtrd4fgxf2clyenvvafntv5r9n4knmu5ezfcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tc95f6pm and me. 3% each, because of course Merlin and nostr:nprofile1qqs0s64jxjwyxvwq4dzh9rpt808yg4d3v9sez05ywfhul7s4cuef3ksprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucnpwdehq6tnw3hkctn0wfnj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpr9mhxue69uhhwmm59e3xzumnwp5hxar0dshx7un89ukr3j0m deserve treats too. Then it would look like this:

Pay attention to the differences in tags and within those, see the values in their respective split="".

ChadF and 33 others 3mo ago

Looking at that on my phone it looks correct but you won't know until you updated the feed and push it to production.

When/if you do just let us know and we can send some Boosts. You have one so adding others isn't much different.

inpc 3mo ago

I’ll give that a try once I figure out what the hell is going wrong with Nextcloud now, thanks!!

ChadF and 33 others 3mo ago

I know nostr:npub1f49twdlzlw667r74jz6t06xxlemd8gp2j7g77l76easpl8jsltvqvlzpez had issues adding some stuff with castopod which is sad because they've been here since the beginning.

A few of us tried it early on but it's was ready so we moved on.

inpc 3mo ago

Yeah I remember him saying he had problems and is now totally DIY, I’m a long way off that skills wise, mostly the new language I think, still don’t understand many of the terms used.

Has anyone you’re aware of done a super basic beginners guide to RSS? I’m going to search myself but asking in case you know of something good I might not find.

徒settoセット 𓁣 🏴 3mo ago

Have you looked at sovereignfeeds.com ? You can upload the audio/image files to your server and then use that tool to generate an xml file (podcast feed) with links to those audio/image filles it's very handy. You then upload that xml file to your server and enter the url to it in the indexes.

Try it out, download the xml file and inspect it, test in feed validators, it's a great way to learn!

Pixel Survivor 3mo ago

sovereign feeds? sounds like my kind of dinner table , except here we serve pixels on lightning platters instead of podcasts. xml is just canvas

BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 3mo ago

I've tried sovereign feeds and would recommend as well.

ChadF and 33 others 3mo ago

This is how I feel learn Nostr terms so you're not alone.

This is a good start.

https://fountain.fm/episode/oX38uDpRJy8nPQCOxJPn

This also goes over musicsideproject.com and shows where the stuff is in the feeds.

This is also why I tell people using a host is also fine.

Hash Power Music 3mo ago

We have found that podhome.fm has all the features we need so far and is pretty easy to understand. It also helps that the community has a direct line to the owner for support.

Hash Power Music 3mo ago

To be more clear on terminology, I should have prob said...

They SUPPORT all the TAGS we want to utilize in OUR FEEDS.

Podhome 3mo ago

And if you are kissing any tags, let us know, and we can support them. We are very flexible

inpc 3mo ago

I also need to kiss the tags? May explain why I’ve been struggling… 😀

Podhome 3mo ago

Oh man. Autocorrect 😂 “missing” any tags

inpc 3mo ago

I thought that’s what you meant but I’ll try kissing them anyway, need all the luck I can get. 😂

ChadF and 33 others 3mo ago

You do have to show it some love and encourage it. It is trying to help you share your content with the world after all.

inpc 3mo ago

It works with plants, why not RSS.

BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 3mo ago

bitpunk.fm is typing 3mo ago

Yeah so castapod gives you the ability to add "custom rss." Not sure if that's called exactly that. But you can paste in a xml snippet.

You can do this at the podcast level or the episode level.

So you can start by finding a valid RSS feed, copy their block, modify it for your node or lnaddress, and then just paste it in.

For this, it worked.

ChadF and 33 others 3mo ago

This is why we just use sovereignfeeds.com to make feeds and host them wherever.

You could probably build a dummy feed here and just copy the value block info.

He has one address in there already and splits are just multiple but with a % for the split.

inpc 3mo ago

Ahhh yes, I use Podping on there, funny I did play with it more when I was using PeerTube but there seemed to be no way to add the RSS code to PeerTube…

ChadF and 33 others 3mo ago

SF is the standard and a nice balance between a host and just copy/pasting pieces from other peoples feeds.

I haven't used it because I only need simple test feeds so it was easier to just do it from the DeMu template at the time.

DuhLaurien ✌🏻👽💨 3mo ago

nostr:nprofile1qqsqgcez8t0n3hu6y2nlkpuenf3clh2zmpph2ulqhuvug0sp8v2dvucpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj95crztnev94kj6r0dehx2tnrdakj7khlssy have you see the DeMu feed template with comments on each of the tags? Not sure if it'll help but like nostr:nprofile1qqsgufllkhymhrxaqyc6meh05jw4d4qpk4pym87lnf37qax4y7c8zhqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0hef8r6 said, there's a bunch of us here willing to help! 💜 And value splits are huge part of what makes DeMu so incredible.

Here's the template nostr:nprofile1qqszxgvrzkpasudhvdjx3anl77qxse5wd6eunndmyv9x63uwnpn09mgpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpzfmhxue69uhkummnw3e82efwvdhk6tcgt4a3x put together after he and nostr:nprofile1qqswx5p2r336ltnfzag7j97dz2acwxq5d3yyhw3gsgm7se9x6f86v0spr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0lusn4r recorded Stay Awhile:

https://github.com/de-mu/demu-feed-template/blob/master/feed-with-comments.xml

ChadF and 33 others 3mo ago

I used this to hand make this feed.

Was it easy? No

Did I learn a lot about RSS feeds? Yes

https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7405721

BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 3mo ago

One step at a time, you're on the right path. Reach out if you're stuck on anything specific - lots of here willing to help!

And as shitty as this is, it's unfortunatly not a unique story. I've heard similar things happen all the time, its no different than people getting deplatformed on social media... you're just a commodity at best and its cheaper for them to stick their fist up your ass than actually try to help.

Normies dont understand... you do not just simply upload music direct to spotify.

inpc 3mo ago

Thanks! This might actually be something I find LLMs useful for (I haven’t really to date), I just asked about creating examples of code needed for RSS feeds and they look right, I have some time tomorrow to play around. Good to know there’s people here who’ve been around this scene a while.