EDITIONS

Every release decides
its own shape.

An album, a film, a book, a painting, a world you can walk into — on Orbit they are all sold the same way: as editions. An edition is an offer an artist chose to make. It has a name, a price, a size, and a plain list of what owning it lets you do.

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No tiers. No ladder. No rank.

Orbit used to sell a fixed three-rung ladder — the same three names on every release, priced by a formula, with better perks the higher you climbed. It never described what artists actually make. A vinyl repress isn't a "tier two". A signed run of fifty isn't a rank; it's a run of fifty.

So the ladder is gone. In its place is one honest object: an edition exists because somebody offered it. One release might have a single open edition. Another might have three — a standard, a numbered run of one hundred, and a "Tokyo Repress" at its own price. Nothing is derived, nothing is inherited, nothing is invented.

Two shapes: open, or numbered

An open edition is simply available. Everyone who collects it holds the same thing, there is no copy number, and it doesn't advertise a countdown — because nothing about it is running out.

A numbered edition is a finite run, and it says so: a hundred copies, or a thousand. Each collector gets their own copy number, and that number is genuinely theirs — recorded on-chain, not a badge we print next to it.

ExampleHow a numbered edition appears on a release

The ring shows how much of the run is left. The price sits where you'd tap to collect it, and the permissions are listed on the card itself.

And once it's yours: your own copy number, #7 of 1,000 — recorded on-chain, and the same number wherever the release appears.

What owning it lets you do

Every edition carries its permissions on its face. They are set by the artist, shown before you buy, and they are the whole list — there is no fine print underneath.

AccessPlay it, watch it, read it, view it, walk into it — in the app, for as long as you own it.

DownloadTake the file with you, where the medium has a file to take.

CommentSpeak on the release's page — a room for the people who actually collected it.

ExtrasMaterial that comes only with this edition.

Two of these are further along in the model than in the catalog: master-quality downloads and edition-exclusive extras can be granted, and nothing on Orbit uses them yet. You'll see them here when a release actually offers them, and not before.

Across every medium — including where it doesn't apply

One model, five kinds of work. The permissions are the same words everywhere, but each medium answers them in its own way — and two of them have no file to hand over at all. That isn't a gap we're hiding; it's how the work is delivered.

What each edition grant means per medium, and where a grant does not apply.
Medium	Access means	Download	Numbered runs	Comments
Musicalbums & tracks	Listen, in full	MP3	Yes	Yes
Filmfeatures & shorts	Watch, in full	— streamed only	Yes	Yes
Booksdigital editions	Read in the app	PDF	Yes	Yes
Artworkstatic visual art	View at full size	Image file	Yes	Yes
InteractiveInfirama worlds	Enter and explore	— no file exists	Yes	Yes

Film and interactive worlds are delivered as secure streams rather than files, so their editions grant no download and never claim one. Everything else about them is identical: the same edition rows, the same copy numbers, the same on-chain ownership.

One price, and the streams you already paid

Each edition sets its own price — there's no multiplier turning one into another. And if you've been streaming a release, that money isn't spent: it counts toward owning it. What you see on the button is the sticker minus what you've already put in.

That number doesn't change on its way to you. The same figure is shown, approved, charged and printed on the invoice, whether you pay with credits, a card, or from your own wallet. Nothing is recalculated behind the checkout.

Stream-to-ownEvery stream you pay for counts toward owning the release outright.

Pay how you likeCredits, card, or on-chain in EURC or USDC — same edition, same price.

Paid instantlyThe split reaches the creator and their channel the moment it lands.

It's really yours

An edition you collect is recorded on a public ledger under your own wallet address — not as a row in our database that we could quietly revise. You can read it without us, and if a creator has enabled resale, you can pass it on.