Terms of Service

Last updated 11 September 2026

1. What these terms cover

These terms cover everything at meldliveapp.com operated by MELD ("we", "us"): MELD Master, the browser mastering tool; MELD Jam, the live playing beta; MELD Studio, the browser recorder and timeline; MELD Social, the feed and the messaging, connections and profiles that go with it; the feedback form; and the beta and updates sign-up forms. "You" means anyone using them.

Using any part of the site means you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use it.

2. MELD Master

MELD Master masters audio entirely inside your browser. Your file is read by the page, processed on your own machine, and the result is saved by your browser. It is not uploaded to us, and there is no server that receives it.

Rendering is free of charge. What is metered is how often: your first render is free and needs no account, a free account gets a monthly allowance, and the paid plans raise it. The numbers are on the plans page, which is read from the same place the limit is enforced. The signed-out count lives in your own browser, so clearing your browser data or using a private window resets it, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise.

A paid render on our server exists in the code and is switched off. If it is ever switched on the page will say so before anything is charged or sent anywhere, and payment would be taken by Stripe, not by us.

You keep every right in the audio you master. We claim nothing in it, and the free render never sends it to us.

Mastering changes a recording. Keep your original file — we cannot recover it for you, because we never had it.

3. MELD Jam beta

MELD Jam connects two musicians for a live audio session in the browser. It offered video until 4 September 2026; the camera was removed and a jam now uses your microphone only. It is open to anyone and needs no key and no account — choose an instrument, choose who you want to find, and play. Or send somebody a link and the two of you get a private room.

Being a beta, it may be interrupted, changed or taken down without notice. Do not rely on it for anything that matters — a paid performance, a session you are being paid for, or anything you cannot afford to lose.

Sessions are limited to three minutes and connect the two browsers directly wherever possible. Jam time is metered the same way renders are: a trial allowance signed out, a monthly one with a free account, more on the paid plans, all stated on the plans page. We do not record, listen to, or store your audio — including when the two of you have switched recording on, which happens entirely in your own browsers and never reaches us. How the connection is made, and the third parties necessarily involved in making it, are described in the Privacy Policy.

There is no camera in a jam. Your browser asks permission for the microphone before a session starts, and you can refuse or revoke it. Where the two networks will not allow a direct connection the audio is carried through a relay, encrypted; the Privacy Policy names the provider and says what it does and does not do with it.

In the public lobby you are matched with strangers. You are responsible for how you behave in a session, and you must not use MELD Jam to harass, threaten, record without consent, or expose anyone to sexual or violent content. We can withdraw access without warning or explanation.

You must hold the rights to any music you play. You are responsible for that, not us.

4. MELD Studio

MELD Studio records from your microphone, arranges takes on a timeline and exports audio entirely inside your browser. Nothing you record is uploaded by recording it, so a take is not ours to lose, read, or hand to anyone.

A take is kept in your browser's own storage rather than only in the tab, which is what lets a recording move between MELD Studio, MELD Master and a post without being uploaded. It survives a reload. It is still on your machine and nowhere else: clearing your browser's data for this site deletes it, and we cannot get it back for you, because we never had it. Export anything you would be sorry to lose. With an account, the name and length of each take are kept against you so the list follows you; the audio still is not.

You keep every right in what you record. We claim no licence over it unless you post it, save it to the cloud or share it by link, and section 5 says exactly what that licence is and is not.

5. MELD Social: posting, and what you licence us to do

MELD Social is the feed, your profile, your connections, and the messages between you. It needs an account.

Posting a track uploads that recording to us. It is the only thing MELD uploads in the ordinary course of using it, and it is the only reason a post can be played by anybody other than you. Mastering, recording and jamming are unchanged and still never upload anything. The Studio plan's Save to cloud and Share by link also upload, on your press of those buttons; the licence below covers a saved project or a shared mix the same way it covers a post.

Your profile is public. Anyone, signed in or not, can open it, and it has a QR code that points at it. It shows what you typed for it — your display name, handle, picture, location, bio and link — along with the month you joined, the tracks you have posted that the viewer is allowed to see, a track you have pinned, how many times your tracks have been played and how many connections you have. Do not put anything in a bio or a link that you would not put on a poster.

Connecting is mutual. You press Connect on somebody's profile, they accept or decline, and either of you can remove the connection afterwards. Your profile shows your connections to you, and shared ones to others: on your own profile you see your connections by name; on somebody else's, if you are signed in, you see the people you both know — which can only be people you are already connected to. Nobody is shown a list of your connections, and you are not shown a list of theirs. The number of connections an account has is visible on the profile.

You keep every right in the music you post. We claim no ownership of it. To be able to show a post at all we need your permission to do the specific things showing it requires, so by posting a track you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store that recording, to change its format or size so that it can be sent over a network, and to transmit it to the people you have allowed to see the post. That is the whole of it. It does not let us sell your music, license it to anybody else, put it in an advertisement, train anything on it, or use it outside MELD. It lasts only as long as the post: set the post to private and we stop serving it at once, and delete the post and the file goes with it.

Who can hear a post is decided per post — public, connections only (the feed labels it Friends only), or private — and checked every time somebody presses play, not once when they loaded the page. Narrowing a post takes effect immediately, including for anybody who kept a link.

You can delete a post. Delete is on your own posts in the feed and takes two presses, because it cannot be undone. It removes the post and the stored audio together — not one and then the other — and its likes, comments and every repost of it go with it. Making a post private is the softer option: it stops anybody else seeing or hearing it while the post stays yours.

Post only what is yours to post. You must hold the rights to the music in anything you upload. Posting somebody else's recording, or somebody else's work under your own name, is a misuse of the feed and we will remove it.

Reposting passes on somebody else's post; it does not copy it. Only a post its author has made public can be reposted, and a repost points at the original rather than taking a copy of the recording. The author keeps every right in it and keeps control of it: if they later narrow the post to connections, make it private, or delete it, every repost of it stops working at that moment. You are not licensing us anything by reposting, and you are not claiming the music — the card names whoever made it.

Likes and comments are yours and you can remove them. You can delete your own comment anywhere, and the person whose post it is on can delete any comment on their own post. The list of what you have liked is shown to you and nobody else; the person whose post you liked is told that you did, and everyone sees the count. A comment must follow the same rule as a post: do not put somebody else's work, or anything you would not stand behind, under someone's music.

We count plays, not listeners. A post shows how many times it has been played. We do not record who played it and we do not build a history of what anybody listened to.

You can message the people you are connected to, and reply to anybody who has written to you. Messages are private between the people in them, but they are not end-to-end encrypted and we are technically able to read them. We do not do so as a matter of course. Do not use MELD to send anything you would need cryptographic secrecy for.

Blocking somebody stops their messages, their jam invites and the typing signal in both directions. You can also report somebody from a conversation; a person reads reports, and nothing automated acts on them.

6. Accounts

You do not need an account to record, export, jam or use MELD Master. An account is what a post, a message, a connection and a plan belong to, and it raises the limits on the things that need none.

You are responsible for keeping your password to yourself, and for what happens under your account. Tell us at once if you think someone else has it. We cannot recover a password for you — we do not store one, only a value derived from it that cannot be reversed. If you forget it, the sign-in page emails you a link that works once and lasts an hour. The account page can sign you out of every device at once. One person, one account; do not share a login.

You may close your account at any time by writing to us, and we will delete the record. We may close an account that is being used to break section 9.

7. Plans and payment

The plans are Free, Artist, Studio and Pro. The plans page is rendered from the same catalogue the server enforces, so the prices, the allowances and the features it shows are the ones you get, and each card says whether that plan is on sale today. A plan that is not on sale cannot be started: the button is off, no card is asked for, and the server refuses the request.

Some features are marked for paid plans, and are locked until those plans open for you. This section used to say that everything the Studio does is free, and that was not accurate: recording, playback, metering, trimming, fading, normalising, the metronome, exporting a WAV and the whole of MELD Master are free and will stay free, but multitrack, the effects, the repair tools, the instruments, stems and cloud save are held for the paid plans. You will see them in the Studio, and clicking one tells you which plan it belongs to and whether that plan can be bought today. Nothing about that arrangement charges you or asks for a card — it means those parts are not usable yet, not that they are free.

A paid plan goes on sale only when what it adds over the rung below is built and payments are switched on. When you buy one, checkout is handled by Stripe: your card details go to Stripe and never to us, and what we keep is which plan you are on and a Stripe customer reference so the subscription can be matched to your account. Plans are monthly. When Stripe tells us a subscription has ended — because you cancelled or a card failed — the account goes back to Free, and nothing you made goes away with the plan. Write to us to cancel. We will not begin charging for a feature before it works, and nothing in this section is a promise that any particular feature will ship.

8. Sign-up and feedback forms

You may give us an email address to hear about updates. Give an address you control. Every email we send carries a one-click unsubscribe link, and we do not sell or rent addresses to anyone.

Creating an account puts your address on that list too. The sign-up form says so before you create the account. Unsubscribing is one click from any email, it does not affect your account, and once you have unsubscribed making another account does not put you back on.

The feedback form needs no account. An address given there is used only to answer you and joins no list.

Access keys were issued while MELD Jam was invite only. Any key you already hold still works, and none is needed any more.

9. Acceptable use

• Do not attempt to break, overload, or gain unauthorised access to any part of the site or to anyone else's session.
• Do not use the site to infringe copyright or any other right.
• Do not use automated means to sign up repeatedly or to abuse the forms.
• Do not use MELD Jam to record another person without their knowledge. By default MELD captures your own microphone only. Recording both people exists and is opt-in on both sides: it is a switch you turn on before you are matched, and it puts you in a room that only contains other people who turned it on, so nobody is ever recorded by somebody who chose it when they did not. Routing the other person's audio into a recorder by any other means — or pressing that switch to capture somebody you then mislead about it — is this rule being broken.
• Do not use a jam invite to pester somebody. An invite makes another person's browser ring, and anyone you invite can block you, which stops both invites and messages.
• Post only tracks that are yours to post. A post carries the recording itself, not just its name, so posting somebody else's work under your own name is not only a misattribution — it is distributing their music without the right to.
• Do not use a profile picture, a display name, a handle, a bio or a link to pass yourself off as somebody else, or to send people somewhere harmful.
• Do not send images, GIFs or tracks in order to harass anybody, and do not send sexual or violent content to anyone.

We may withdraw access from anyone doing these things.

10. No warranty

Everything here is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that a master will meet any particular standard, or that MELD Jam will connect you to anyone.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, MELD is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, audio or goodwill, arising out of or relating to the site — including a failed master, a lost or altered recording, a session that did not connect, or anything said or done by another person in a session.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law.

12. Third-party services

The site depends on services we do not control — hosting, storage, email delivery, payment and the connection services MELD Jam needs. They are listed in the Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for their acts or omissions, and their own terms govern their services.

13. Changes and withdrawal

We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the site, including the MELD Jam beta, at any time. These terms may be updated; the date at the top reflects the most recent revision. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms: support@meldliveapp.com