Amply is software, not a service. Nobody signs up, nothing is sold, and there is no account we could suspend. This page explains what that actually means, because it changes what you can expect from us, in both directions.

The licence is the agreement

Amply is released under the Apache License 2.0. That licence is the real legal agreement covering your use of the software; everything else here describes how the thing works.

Read plainly, it grants you the right to use, modify and redistribute the code, including commercially. It includes a patent grant. And it does not grant rights to the name: fork the code freely, but ship it under your own name. The name is what an artist checks when deciding whether the thing asking for access to their Cloudflare account is the one they meant to trust.

What Amply does not do

These are structural facts about how it is built, not promises we could quietly break:

• We do not host any music. It sits on infrastructure the artist owns and logs into.
• We do not take a cut. There is no account for money to pass through.
• We do not rank, recommend, or index anyone. There is no catalogue and no algorithm.
• We cannot remove an artist. There is no registry and no delist switch.
• We hold no keys and touch no payments. Money goes directly from a listener to an artist.
• We keep no standing access to anyone's account.

If you are an artist

You are the publisher and the host. That is the point, and it comes with real responsibilities:

• Use only music you have the right to publish. Two separate questions, and both matter: do you own the recording, and are you free to distribute it yourself? An exclusive distribution agreement can prevent self-hosting a recording you fully own. Check your own agreements. We cannot check for you and we will not try.
• Originals only. No covers, no uncleared samples.
• Complaints come to you. You are the host, so a copyright notice reaches you or Cloudflare. We have no copy of your music and no ability to take anything down.
• Your Cloudflare account is yours. Their terms apply to it, any costs are yours, and if that account goes away so does your music.
• If you are a member of a performing rights organisation (ASCAP, BMI, STIM, PRS or similar), your performance rights sit with them, including for your own songs. Streaming from your own site has gone untroubled for decades, but it is your relationship to manage, not ours.
• You set your own price, and you can change it whenever you like.

If you are a listener

• Payments are direct and final. They go from your wallet to the artist's, with no intermediary. There is no refund, no chargeback, and no reversal, not because we refuse, but because we are not in the transaction and could not undo it.
• Your wallet key lives on your device. Lose it with no backup and the balance is gone permanently. We cannot recover it. Keep balances small.
• Check the rate before you play. Artists set their own prices, and the app will show you the rate and ask before it applies a new or increased one.
• What you get is what an artist published. We do not review, approve or vouch for anything, because we cannot see any of it.

Nothing to terminate

There is no account, so there is nothing to close and nothing we could take away. Stop using the app and it stops. Delete it and any accrued payments settle first.

An artist's node belongs to the artist. If this project ends tomorrow, every node keeps serving and every listener keeps listening.

Changes

Changes to this page appear in the public repository's history, dated and diffable. We cannot revise it quietly.

Governing law

Amply is maintained from Sweden, and Swedish law applies to these terms to the extent any law does. Nothing here removes rights you have under mandatory consumer law where you live.