Guide to Value4Value Music Shows | RSS Blue

Three modern podcasting features enable artists to earn money using open standards:

Specifically, the third feature gives rise to music shows—podcasts that play music and share the value with the artists. If you are a DJ or simply want to play some music on your podcast, this guide is for you!

When creating the podcast, make sure to mark it as a music show in the “Extra details” tab. Although any podcast will be able to use wallet switching, this setting will optimize the UI for your DJ-specific needs:

If you've already prepared a show and simply want to add song references, go to step 4.

In the dashboard, click on “Find tracks”. You'll be able to search for songs by

• artist name
• album name
• track name
• URL from Podcast Index, Podverse, or Fountain

To listen to a song, click on the cover art. To add it to your show, click on the “+” icon. You can also click the artist's or the album's name to search for all their songs.

After you've selected all the tracks, you'll be able to download the audio files (for step 3) and chapters (for step 4):

Start creating a new episode in the dashboard. If you picked your songs using the process in step 2, upload the chapters by clicking the “Upload JSON chapters file” button:

A chapter will be created for each referenced track. The chapter durations are automatically set to match the duration of the tracks.

However, you may want to adjust the start times to match the moments when you started playing the track on your music show. You can also adjust the fraction of the payments you want to share with the artist.

If you did not prepare the tracks through RSS Blue or if you want to add additional chapters that reference music tracks, click on “New chapter” and then “Reference a song”:

Once you've filled in all the other details about your show, click “Publish episode”, and you're done!