形見 — a keepsake · NFC
Music you
can hold.
Streaming gave you everything and the ritual of nothing. Katami presses an album back into an object — a wooden card, a cassette, a floppy. Tap it to your phone and it plays across the room, on the speaker you already love.
The song plays in the room. Not on your phone.
Spotify Premium + a Connect speaker · Early access · Malaysia first
The ritual
You used to choose an album.
Now you just press shuffle.
Somewhere between the record shelf and the recommendation engine, the gesture disappeared. The act of picking a record, sliding it out, and committing to it — gone. We have ten thousand albums and we choose none of them.
Katami gives the gesture back. You pick the record. You perform a small act — a tap. The room answers. The object is the choice; the phone just carries it.
No shuffle. No autoplay. Just the music you meant to hear.
How it works
Encode a card
Search Spotify in the Katami app, choose an album or playlist, and write it to a keepsake — a wooden card, a floppy, a cassette.
Tap your phone
Hold the card to the back of your phone, the way you tap to pay. It opens katami.cc and reads the music encoded on the card.
The room answers
The album starts on your default Spotify Connect speaker — Sonos, KEF, WiiM, Echo. You never opened the app. You just chose, and listened.
The phone is the bridge. The object is the ritual.
A keepsake for every record.
One technology — NFC + your Spotify — at rising levels of craft and nostalgia.
NFC sticker
Encode any album yourself.
RM5
Wooden card
Laser-engraved, pre-encoded.
RM35
Floppy disk
Real 3.5″ shell, printed label.
RM65
Cassette
Real shell, printed J-card.
RM75
Gift sets & box sets to RM199 — a playlist you can wrap.
Account-free by design
Share it like a record.
A Katami card isn't tied to your account. Hand it to a friend and they tap it — the same album plays on their speaker and lands in their library. Every album has one card; the card belongs to whoever holds it.
Lend it. Gift it. Pass it down.
Not another phone gimmick
The others
NFC cards and Spotify-code trinkets play tinny audio out of your phone speaker. Kids' players lock you into proprietary hardware.
Katami
Plays on the real speaker you already own, through Spotify Connect. No new hardware. Made as an object worth keeping — and worth giving.
Questions
Do I need Spotify Premium?
Yes — Katami plays to your speaker through Spotify Connect, which needs Premium. If you own a connected speaker, you almost certainly already have it.
Why not just open the Spotify app?
Because opening the app — the scroll, the shuffle, the decision fatigue — is exactly the habit you're trying to break. The card is the value: one gesture, the music you meant to hear.
Which speakers work?
Anything with Spotify Connect: Sonos, Bose, KEF, WiiM, Amazon Echo, and most modern smart speakers and AV receivers.
Is NFC complicated?
If you've tapped to pay, you can tap to play. Hold the card to your phone — no extra app beyond Spotify.
How do I put music on a card?
Pre-encoded cards arrive ready to tap. To make your own: in Katami, search an album and add it — each item shows a katami.cc/play/… link. Write that link to a blank NFC tag with the free NFC Tools app (iPhone & Android), and the card is done.
How does it work on iPhone?
iPhone XS and newer read NFC automatically when unlocked — hold the card to the top of your phone, a banner slides down, tap it and the album plays on your speaker. To encode your own cards on iOS, use the NFC Tools app (iOS can't write tags from the browser).
How does it work on Android?
Most Android phones read NFC tags automatically — tap the card to the back of the phone and the link opens, playing on your speaker. You can encode cards with NFC Tools or directly in Chrome (Web NFC). Make sure NFC is switched on in settings.
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