Nothing wrong with using fountaint and wavlake. Im a big fan and supporter of them both. Just like I generally have nothing against primal and doubt they have evil intentions.
But right now, everyone is exclusively using wavlake and just now starting to pick up on Fountain and we should promote broad usage. Its not decentralized if we are only using one or two apps. Nostriches should be screaming the war cry and flying the flag, not being dragged along like toddlers.
Its like if nostr acted as if primal and zbd was the whole ecosystem and refused to try any new apps or even acknowledge there is anything else.
NGL, hearing nostritches talk about music in this space often sounds cringe-ily like normies from TikTok finding primal for the first time. There are people screaming and teaching from the rooftops on nostr but most are staying willingly ignorant.
Let me be very clear. Im a big supporter of wavlake and fountain and use them regularly. But there are other apps, with nostr integration no less, that we should be using and promoting.
Also wavlake contains only 1/3 of the decentralized music library that exists. So theres that too.
Nostriches exclusively using wavlake are severely missing out and that's not a dig on wavlake, just me feeling sad for ignorant nostriches. Again, because it seems everytime I say wavlake, nostriches tend to get defensive... I've spoken with Sam directly IRL and I understand why things are the way they are on wavlake. I dont blame him.
***And the kicker here is he literally said to me, HE wants there to be more apps in this ecosystem that doesnt do the walled garden thing he was forced to do.***
He said that its too difficult to entirely dismantle and rebuild wavlake to accommodate and hopes other people can come in to fill the void and continue innovating.
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I guess I'm not helping with
using the Wavlake API ๐ค but I do plan on adding RSS music eventually once I can figure that out.
What music apps are you talking about and referring to? What should I check out?

ZapTrax - Nostr Music Player
Discover and stream music on Nostr with Wavlake integration. Create playlists, like tracks, and support artists with Lightning zaps.
This whole thing just shows how captured this all is. We only have Fountain and Wavlake to reference and compare things to so it sounds like hate.
I could talk about Castamatic, Curiocaster, LNBeats, PodcastGuru, Podverse, Truefans the same way and they all use the same tech Fountain does.
My favorites are:
Lnbeats.com
Podcastguru
Podverse
Truefans
Curiocaster
Also @ChadF and 33 others is vibe coding some stuff. Im told @Hash Power Music is working on things in the background too.
I'd say this is a half step forward which I certainly cant hate on. Ship something, anything. But we ahld always strive for excellence when it makes sense to do so ๐ช๐ฝ
To get you started on RSS... its easy to understand. All it is, is a text container with metadata referencing the hosted source of various assets (like the song or album art) and the various attributes of the feed (is it a song or podcast? What's the album title, who should splits go to, etc)
Its just a glorified public database relay of sorts