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What Is User-Owned Music, and Why It Matters in 2025

What Is User-Owned Music, and Why It Matters in 2025 Reclaiming your music, your data, and your listening identity. The short answer User-owned music means you control your music library, your data, and your listening experience. It’s a shift away from the closed, algorithm-driven platforms that quietly reshaped how we consume music – and a …

Rethinking Music Discovery Beyond Algorithms

Rethinking Music Discovery Beyond Algorithms The Short Answer Crates approaches music discovery through people, not prediction models. With Gems, listeners share meaningful recommendations grounded in taste, context, and trust – not engagement metrics or opaque algorithms. It is music discovery designed for humans. The problem with algorithmic music discovery Most mainstream discovery tools operate inside …