Privacy

What this app knows about you.

Last updated 10 August 2026

Dad's Music Player has no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. It does not build a profile of your listening. Nobody is sent a list of what you played.

Your music files stay on your computer. They are never uploaded, copied, or scanned by anyone but you.

When the app connects to the internet

There are exactly two occasions, and both are described below.

1. Looking up song details

When you open the info panel for a song, the app asks MusicBrainz — an open, community-run music database — whether it knows anything about that recording. To do that it sends the title, artist and album text stored in your file, and identifies itself as DadsMusicPlayer.

It does not send the file, your filenames, your folder paths, or anything about you. This only happens when you open that panel. If you never open it, the app never contacts them. What MusicBrainz does with the requests it receives is covered by their own privacy policy.

2. Checking for a new version

At most once a day when you open the app, and whenever you choose Check for Updates, it downloads a small text file from this website that lists the current version number. The request contains no information about you or your music.

As with any web request, this site's server records the ordinary things a web server records: the IP address making the request, the time, and the file requested. That log is used to keep the site working and is not used to identify anyone or connected to anything else.

What's stored on your own computer

The playlist you had open, saved as an ordinary .m3u8 file in ~/Library/Application Support/DadsMusicPlayer/, so the app can reopen it next time.
Small preferences — volume, shuffle and repeat settings, whether the song list is hidden, and when the app last checked for an update.

All of it stays on your machine. Deleting the app and that folder removes it.

Changes you make to your files

When you edit a song's details and press Save, the app writes those details into the music file itself, in the standard ID3 format. That's a change to your file, made at your request. The audio is copied across untouched, but as with anything that edits files, keep a backup of music you can't replace.

Children

The app collects nothing from anyone, of any age. It's a music player for files you already have.

If this changes

If a future version connects anywhere new, this page will say so before that version ships, and the date at the top will change.

Questions

Get in touch through tbaker.com.