[Otternonsenz]

Interesting release, and am very interested as a musician where this leads. Not for Spotify’s sake, but because tools like this are super useful for people who have the ideas in their head, but not the musical background to get a simple tune to work the exact way you want.

The one worry I have and perhaps I am naïve to what the implications of the license are, but do the rights to the tune being processed on the web version of the converter stay with the person inputting the vocals or instrumentation, or does the midi get catalogued by Spotify?

It would seem if you are grabbing the source code you don’t have to worry about something like that, but I’m more curious with what they do with the sound file while processing it on their side. Does it go into their research for their recommendation engine? Or is this purely altruistic?

I want to believe the latter, but Spotify’s own track record on respecting artistic work, especially in adequate compensation for use of artist’s work if it brings ears to their platform leads me to believe that while not nefarious, they are certainly getting more out of this than good press.

If I’m just being a cynic about this, please call me out on it. I understand that I am jaded on this subject in particular, and might be a place where I am quite biased against Spotify and what I see as their furthering of negative traits in music.

[komedy]

Hi! Great question! Actually this application 100% works in your browser and none of the music data ever leaves your browser or is sent to Spotify -- so you 100% own it and we don't have any record at all of what people upload.

P.S. I'm one of the developers

[Otternonsenz]

I appreciate the response, and while my initial comment might have been derailed by my cynicism, you and your team have made a really cool app! I’ve been away from the internet while on vacation and hadn’t gotten to see this.

If I may, what was the push behind bringing this out? Curious if this was a personal thing within the team or something that came out of deeper work internally.

As an audio nerd and dev, always glad to see innovative work that touches on those passions of mine simultaneously.

[vestrigi]

Note at the bottom says it all stays local but who knows what a future version might do. I think your concern is not too far off. Essentially this would mean that a tool maker gets rights to or a share of the work of an individual that used the tool.