Music — a platform you own, with artists paid per stream, directly

Music is a dual-context module: a person listens + publishes at /me/music, and an org/label runs a publishing workspace at /music. Both share one catalog.

Phase 1 is the **creator-owned lane** — the catalog is audio the rights-holder uploads (their own tracks, EPs, albums, and DJ/creator mixes). That needs zero external licensing, and it exercises the whole platform primitive end-to-end:

catalog → player → playbackEvent → per-stream royalty ledger

The thing that makes this different from a normal streaming app: **every qualified stream (30 seconds or more) accrues a per-stream royalty, split by the release's contributor percentages, and paid directly to each payee — no float, no platform fee.** It's the transparent inverse of a pooled, black-box payout.

A DJ/creator mix is modeled as one rendered audio file plus an optional tracklist (cue markers) for display — one audio asset, one royalty subject.

Listening uses a persistent mini-player that keeps playing as you move around the app.

Honest limits: there is no legal "pay-per-listen" API for arbitrary commercial catalogs — streaming the Top 40 needs the listener's own subscription (Apple Music) or a pre-licensed library (Epidemic Sound). Those connect later onto this same ledger. In this phase, money movement is dormant; the on-rails accrual ledger is the deliverable.