RSS 3.0: The Music Platform We Never Built

Music never got its own open standard. Podcasts had RSS — musicians got platforms. Spotify won not because it’s fair, but because it delivers the full listening experience that RSS could never solve. Fountain and Wavlake push the limits of podcast infrastructure, but without a true music-native feed format, discovery layer, and creator economy, they can only get “almost there.” Could RSS 3.0 be the missing piece? An open, portable, creator-owned protocol for albums, tracks, metadata, payments, and discovery — a music platform we simply never built?