No "discover weekly" of the same six artists. No engagement-bait algorithms. Just 47,000 hand-shelved records in 24-bit / 96kHz, with rooms for late nights, slow mornings, and the long drive home.
Every album is added by a person — usually after they listened to it three times on a Sunday afternoon. No labels pay to be placed. Ever.
— Tomás Régulo, head shelf-keeper
Every record on Sonance is stored at the studio master quality — no transcoding, no MP3 fallback, no "smart bitrate." You hear what the engineer signed off on.
We pay artists from a flat per-listener pool, not a leaky pro-rata pool. Listen to a small artist three times — they get paid for three listens, from your subscription.
Each Listening Room is built and updated by one named person whose name you can read, who you can email, who answers. No "AI for you" surface anywhere.
And we wrote the AirPlay/Sonos/Bluesound integrations ourselves, so they pass full-fidelity instead of resampling. Your DAC actually sees 24-bit.
Each room is hand-shelved. Some are built around a city at 2am. Some around a single album that demanded eleven more. None of them are "Top 50 Global."
A clear cost, paid mostly to the artists. €5 of every €12 goes straight to the catalog payout pool — we publish the receipt every quarter.
A taste — 30 days of full access, no card.
Hi-fi, no compromises, one human.
Up to 4 listeners, one address, one bill.
Anything missing — write to hello@sonance.fm. A person whose name will be at the bottom of the email will write back, usually within a day.
47,000 albums — about 580,000 tracks. Smaller than the supermarkets, larger than every record shop you've been in put together. We pass on anything we wouldn't shelve.
We don't have one and we're not going to build one. You'll discover music the same way you always did — a record someone shelved, played in a room you walked into.
Yes — we wrote the AirPlay/Sonos/Bluesound integrations ourselves, with the manufacturers' API teams, so nothing is downsampled along the way. Verified bit-perfect on 11 devices.
From a €12 subscription, the artists you listened to that month split €5. Roughly 8× what the big platforms pay per stream. We publish the receipt every quarter.