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Own your music again.
A peer-to-peer music library for people who still think a file you hold beats a stream you rent. Find what other people are sharing, take it straight from them, and check every byte as it lands.
01The pitch
Not a streaming service. A record shop that never closes.
Deadwax keeps what worked about the old file-sharing scene and drops what got people burned: a real catalogue you can search, transfers between two people instead of a company, and nothing in the middle that can log you, throttle you or sell you.
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Discovery
Search what people are sharing right now
Results come from the machines of the people online, not from a catalogue somebody else curates. No label decides what you are allowed to hear.
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Transfers
Straight from the source
Files come from the person who has them. If one seeder drops out, Deadwax moves to the next one without you babysitting the queue.
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Privacy
Your address never leaves the room
Every transfer runs through the Tor network, so the other side sees a circuit rather than your connection. Nothing is logged by us, because there is no us.
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Integrity
Checked before it plays
Every track carries its own fingerprint. If a single byte arrives wrong, the download is thrown away instead of quietly joining your library.
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Custody
A library that is actually yours
Your collection is a folder on your own disk. Move it, back it up, copy it, delete it. Nothing is uploaded anywhere you cannot see.
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Companion
Take the shelves with you
Pair a phone or another computer to browse and play your library while you are out. Meet the companion.
02How it works
Three moves, no setup rituals.
You point Deadwax at a folder. It handles the rest, including the parts that used to need a degree in cryptography.
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Find
Search a live catalogue and see who is seeding each result at this moment.
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Ask
Deadwax messages the seeder privately and returns with a handoff good for one download.
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Verify
The file arrives, its fingerprint is checked, and only then does it join your library.
Under the hood — discovery speaks Nostr, transfers ride Tor, and a slow relay never costs you the file. You never have to touch any of it.
03Look inside
Quiet software for loud music.
A library that reads like a record shelf, a queue you can actually see, and no promotional tiles shoved between the songs.
Film
Sixty seconds of proof.
Search, request and own a record, start to finish, without a manual.
Sixteen by nine, no audio narration needed.
Get the appOwning something means you are free to share and pass it on.
Deadwax is free software under the MIT licence, built in the open by people who remember what the internet felt like before every song came with a subscription and a camera in the room.
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