Terms

Using the site

It is free and for people

You can read the archive, listen to the previews, follow the links, share what you find, and make an account, all for your own personal, non-commercial use. The public API is the one exception, and a deliberate one: you can call it from a commercial product. What it hands back is still the archive, so the writing and the music stay under the rest of these terms wherever you put them.

Play fair with it

Do not use the site to break the law, to harm or harass anyone, or to attack, overload, or scrape it in ways that degrade it for everyone else. The API and feeds are there for reasonable use, and where that needs a number it is 30 requests a minute and 1,000 a day from one place. The identifier lookups hold you to it; the rest runs on good faith.

If you build on the API

Two conditions come with it. Say the data came from Fluncle and link back to fluncle.com. And wherever you show a link to Spotify or another platform, name that platform and link to it the way its own rules ask. Fluncle passes that duty on because it was passed to him.

Your account

Keep your login yours and your details accurate. Fluncle can suspend or remove an account that breaks these terms.

The music and the artwork

Fluncle is an archive that points at music, not a music service.

It belongs to the rights holders

Every track, every piece of cover art, and every name belongs to the artists, labels, and other rights holders behind it. Fluncle does not own or sell the music.

How it plays here

The archive plays only short preview clips from official sources and links out to those sources, like Spotify, for the full track. It does not host the full recordings for playback.

If it is yours and you want it changed

If you are a rights holder and want a track or its details corrected or removed, email hey@fluncle.com and Fluncle will sort it out.

Fluncle's own work

The writing and the videos

The findings, notes, logs, videos, artwork, and copy that Fluncle makes are Fluncle's own. Link to them and share them freely; do not republish them wholesale or pass them off as your own.

The code

The site's source code is open source on GitHub and is covered by the license in that repository.

Submitting a track

What sending one means

When you submit a track, you are giving Fluncle the go-ahead to listen to it, consider it, and, if it makes the cut, log it and write about it across Fluncle's surfaces. Only submit music it is fair for you to share.

No promises

A submission is not a guarantee it gets logged, and there is no payment either way. Fluncle listens to what comes in and certifies by ear.

No warranty, and changes

As is

The archive is provided as is, with no warranty. Things can break, links can rot, and the site can go down. Fluncle is not liable for any loss that comes from using it.

It can change

Fluncle may change, pause, or discontinue any part of the site, and may update these terms. When the terms change, the date at the top changes with them.