In the legacy world, it’s basically the platforms and their ...

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so in the legacy world what ties all your music to you? For RSS normally you just host everything in one place so that ties all this together under y...

In the legacy world, it’s basically the platforms and their internal metadata systems that tie everything from the same artist together (as long as the artist metadata matches an already existing profile), not the distributor itself.

Your music is linked to you through things like the artist name, artist IDs, and platform-specific identifiers (for example, Spotify Artist ID, Apple Music Artist ID, ISRCs, etc.). As long as different distributors deliver releases using the same artist identifiers, the streaming platforms know that everything belongs to the same artist and display it on a single artist page. The listener never sees which distributor was used.

With RSS-based distribution, my understanding is that the feed itself acts as the source of truth. If all music is hosted in a single RSS feed, everything is naturally grouped together. If multiple RSS feeds are used, does it then depend on whether the player can recognize that those feeds belong to the same artist and merge them into a single artist page? Or would the artist be duplicated? I honestly have no idea 🙂

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