How this works legally

Music Keeper reads a list of what you listen to, and helps you buy those recordings from shops that are licensed to sell them. Your streaming service is the input. Licensed download stores are where you go to buy. No audio moves between the two.

We are a middleman, and only that. We never receive, store, package or re-encode an audio file. Not from your streaming service, not from a shop, not from you. The purchase and the file are strictly between you and the shop.

We ask for three read-only permissions: user-library-read, playlist-read-private and playlist-read-collaborative. Those let us see your saved tracks and your playlists. They do not let us play anything, change anything, or delete anything, and we do not ask for permissions that would.

What we read is metadata: track title, artist, album, release year, duration, and the ISRC, which is the recording industry’s own identifier for a specific recording. The ISRC is what lets us tell your version of a song from a later remaster.

We do not capture, record, decrypt or re-encode audio from a streaming service. There is no legal way to turn a stream into a file you own, and products that claim otherwise are breaking copyright law and circumventing DRM regardless of whether you pay for a subscription.

We also do not source audio from YouTube, SoundCloud or peer-to-peer networks. Not as a fallback, not behind a toggle, not for power users.

From a shop, on a purchase you made there. We compare what each licensed seller offers for a given recording, including price, format and whether it is the same master, and then we send you to that seller. You buy it from them, and they give you the file. Money, the licence and the download are all directly between you and the shop, and none of it passes through us.

A smaller set of tracks are released under open licences, such as Creative Commons. Those are free to obtain, and we show the licence and any required attribution alongside them, because those terms are conditions rather than suggestions.

We are not. Music Keeper takes no commission, no referral fee and no affiliate cut on anything you buy. There is no subscription, no paid tier, and nothing to donate to. It is a private tool, run for the few people invited to it.

This is deliberate, and it is not only about the price. If we earned money on some shops and not others, you could not trust the order we list them in. Because we earn nothing either way, the cheapest or best-quality source we show you is genuinely the one we think is cheapest or best.

Full coverage is not possible and we will not imply that it is. Some recordings are exclusive to a streaming service. Some are out of print. Some are sold in other countries but not yours. Some have rights situations that no shop has resolved. We group these by reason, we tell you which, and where a physical release exists we point you at it. Owning the CD is a legitimate answer.

Your account identity, your library and playlist metadata, the matches we computed, what is in your crate, and a record of what you told us you bought. If you run a local library scan, the fingerprints are computed on your own machine and only the fingerprints and tags are sent to us.

No audio, at any point, for any reason. We hold no music files and we have nowhere to put them.

You can export everything we hold, and you can delete your account and have it removed. We do not sell your listening data, and we do not use it to train anything.