Songbrew: Where your songs are kept, and whose they are

Your songs are files

Every song Songbrew makes is saved at once as a file in your music folder: Music › Songbrew on a Mac, Music\Songbrew on Windows, ~/Music/Songbrew on Linux. You can change the folder in Settings. Each song is a FLAC file (sound with nothing lost) with a small record beside it that holds the idea, the lyrics and the settings it was made from.

• Show in Finder (or Show in folder on Windows and Linux) opens the folder with the song selected.
• Move to Trash (Move to Recycle Bin on Windows) sends a song, or one take of it, to the computer's Trash, from where it can come back.
• The search box above the list finds songs by their title, their idea or a line of their lyrics.

Save a copy to share

Press Save as MP3 for a file that plays anywhere, with the song's title, lyrics and a cover inside it, or Save as WAV for a full-quality file. Songbrew asks where to save it. There is no limit on how many copies you save.

Whose the songs are

Your songs are yours to use, commercially too. Songbrew claims nothing and adds no watermark. Its music models are MIT-licensed, but their makers haven't said what music they learned from, so we can't promise a song is free of other people's rights. The full wording is on music.hubnx.com.

What leaves your computer

Nothing you type or make. The only things Songbrew sends or receives are:

• the one-time setup download, and the music models' download;
• a check for a new version, when the app opens and every few hours;
• feedback, only when you send it, and only what you see in the form.

There is no account, no analytics and no tracking. The full privacy page is at music.hubnx.com/privacy.