For starters, if the artist has a website, they can self-host their art on an RSS feed, share that URL with the Podcast Index and be propagated to EVERY Podcasting 2.0 app out there including Fountain which of course shares here to Nostr. Video is enabled.
There are DeMu (decentralized music) artists out there already having great success, like the selfhosted performers who pulled in 2 MILLION sats last Sunday during the v4v Battle of the Bands known as The Satellite Skirmish. No platforms required, just protocols and people.
RSS is a straightforward protocol with the P20 namespace allowing infinite value splits to be added and paid via keysend, plus there's a handy template with comments they could copy when initially setting up:
https://github.com/de-mu/demu-feed-template/blob/master/feed-with-comments.xml
RSS is a great idea, I will look more into this.
Just for info, there is already Wavlake. They accept zaps and accounts are based on NOSTR: https://wavlake.com/
The app for the phone works really good, I use it often to scrooble and find new artists.
Unfortunately Wavlake doesn't surface self-hosted RSS feeds and doesn't allow artists to implement infinite value splits since they are custodial of the artist's value. Pretty UI though. It's kinda like Spotify 2.0 so I steer clear lol BUT you can hear EVERY Wavlake artist on ANY Podcasting 2.0 app and still send them sats.... Err well of course you are sending your sats to Wavlake and trusting they give 90% plus your message to the artist...
What app would you recommend to try out then?
LNBeats.com is where I go to discover new decentralized music (DeMu) and I have it downloaded as a PWA on my phone. Podcast Guru is my main Podcasting 2.0 app, but I also use Podverse and Fountain. I recommend trying multiple from the list of Podcasting 2.0 apps: https://podcastindex.org/apps
That is really cool, didn't knew it was already working. Will bookmark it.