Privacy Policy
Eighth Note (“the app”) plays the music already stored on your phone. This policy explains what the app does with your information.
What stays on your phone
The app keeps the following only on your phone. It is never sent to us or to anyone else:
- the name you enter on the first screen
- the folders you choose to scan
- your playlists, favorites and listening history (recent and most played)
- lyrics you have saved or edited
- your settings (language, theme, player size, song order)
The app reads the audio files and their information (title, artist, album, cover, length) through Android’s media library, after you allow access to music. It does not copy, upload or change your songs.
What is sent over the internet
The only thing the app asks the network for is song lyrics. When you open the lyrics of a song that has none saved yet, the app sends that song’s title, artist, album and length to the public lyrics service LRCLIB (lrclib.net) and saves the answer on your phone. Nothing else is sent: no name, no device identifier, no account, no listening history, no location. The service receives your IP address as any website does; see LRCLIB’s own terms for how it treats requests.
What we do not do
- We have no servers that receive your data, and we do not collect any.
- No accounts, no advertising, no analytics, no crash-reporting libraries, no tracking.
- We do not sell or share your data.
- The app does not use the microphone. The moving bars on the playing song are drawn from the sound the app itself is playing.
Permissions
- Music and audio / storage: to find and play the songs on your phone.
- Notifications: to show the player’s controls while music plays.
- Internet: only to look up lyrics, as described above.
- Foreground service and wake lock: to keep music playing when the screen is off.
Backup
If you use Android’s backup, only the app’s settings are backed up by Google, under your own Google account and its privacy rules. Playlists and history are not.
Deleting your data
Uninstall the app, or clear its storage in Android settings > Apps > Eighth Note, and everything the app saved is removed. In the app’s settings you can also clear your listening history.
Children
The app is a general music player and is not directed at children under 13. It collects no personal information from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new date.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data? Send a message through the contact page.