“Streaming monopolies want you to rent access to music while an opaque algorithm quietly herds your tastes toward whatever maximizes corporate margins and promotional royalties. By pairing a self-hosted lossless collection with local LLM curation, we reclaim genuine audio sovereignty. Local models don’t push sponsored filler; they read deep album liner notes, respect thematic continuity, and curate with surgical intentionality—building 200+ track deep-dive archives with zero cross-playlist collisions. From the 12-string chime of Tom Petty’s Rickenbackers to the breezy bamboo-lounge exotica of Martin Denny, this is what music curation looks like when the listener actually owns the library.”