About us
Built by people who kept buying the same album twice
Wavecrest exists because the lossless files we paid for kept disappearing behind format changes.
Origin
A library that stays put
Between us we had bought the same twenty albums on CD, then as downloads, then again when a store shut down and took the licences with it. We wanted a service that streams the actual master and lets you keep an offline copy at full quality — and that pays the artist in a way you can check.
- No lossy tier, so there is nothing to upsell you to
- User-centric royalties published monthly
- Mastering credits on every release, because someone did that work
A private FLAC server
Six people and a NAS.
First label deals
Four independents, 9,000 albums.
User-centric royalties
The formula goes public.
Bit-perfect desktop player
Exclusive-mode output on three platforms.
11.2 million tracks
Still no lossy tier.
How we work
Boring on purpose
We would rather run software that is three years old and understood than something new that pages us at 04:00.
Own the path
We buy transit from multiple carriers and peer directly wherever it is possible, so a single bad hop is never a single point of failure.
Write it down
Every incident gets a public write-up. Every design decision gets an RFC. Institutional memory beats heroics.
Some of the people behind it
A quarter of the company has been here since the first rack.
We are hiring
Remote-first across EU time zones, with a small office network for people who prefer one.