The medium tag gave music its first open delivery protocol
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In the digital world music has never had a delivery protocol or delivery mechanism. That is that is open. I mean, everything has been proprietary since day one.
Episode 129: Turkish Punk (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:43:40 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Music has never had an open digital delivery protocol. Tagging a podcast feed as music piggybacks on podcasting's existing infrastructure and spreads the costs around, compared with Spotify paying to store tens of millions of tracks that almost no one streams.