Music as property
Every purchase is yours. Lossless, DRM-free, transferable. We hold the convenience copy in your locker, but the underlying file is yours to export to a hard drive in a shoebox if you'd like.
A platform for collectors, listeners, and the artists they love, not for the algorithms that monetize them.
It's time to get back to the music we love collecting. The records we chose, the CDs we kept, the tapes we never threw away, they belong on the device that's actually in our pocket.
For twenty years, the industry asked us to rent our music. To rebuild our libraries every time a label moved. To give up our taste to a recommendation engine. To pretend we don't notice that the artists we love are getting paid in fractions of pennies.
Uki is the alternative. Buy a record once. Own it forever. Listen on every device you have. Pay artists honestly. Bring your collection, the actual physical one, into the next thirty years.
Jack Bigelow · OpenShore Inc.
If you ever catch us breaking one, write to us. We'll tell you why or fix it.
Every purchase is yours. Lossless, DRM-free, transferable. We hold the convenience copy in your locker, but the underlying file is yours to export to a hard drive in a shoebox if you'd like.
At least 80¢ of every dollar reaches the artist. New artists keep 100% until they've earned $1,000 on the platform. Tips and pay-what-you-want overage are 100% theirs forever.
The Collectors membership is for the convenience of cross-device sync, not for access to a rotating catalog. If you stop subscribing, you keep everything you've bought. Always.
A short summary of what we've built and why it's hard. Filings are in process; specifics will be public once granted.
We're a small team. If you've made it this far, we'd love to hear from you, what you collect, what you wish existed, what we're getting wrong.