Terms of Service

1. Agreeing to these terms

By creating a Voxen account or using the site, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use Voxen.

These terms cover everything at the Voxen web address, including the marketplace, the studio tools, challenges, and any file the platform produces for you.

2. What Voxen is

Voxen is a marketplace where producers and artists find each other and make songs together.

A producer uploads an instrumental. An artist records a vocal over it — in their own studio, or in the browser using the built-in recorder. The platform then mixes and masters the two together automatically and hands the finished track back to the producer as a decision to accept, ask for a change, or decline. Accepted work can be assembled into a release package.

A beat can carry more than one version. Several artists can work on the same instrumental at the same time unless the producer has offered it exclusively.

3. Who can use it

You must be at least 18 years old to use Voxen. Money moves between users through the platform, and the payment provider we use has the same requirement.

You must be able to enter a binding contract where you live, and you must not be barred from using the service under any applicable law or sanctions list.

One person, one account. You may hold both roles on a single account — the settings page lets a producer also work as an artist.

4. Your account

You are responsible for what happens on your account, and for keeping your sign-in details to yourself. Tell us straight away if you think someone else has access to it.

If you forget your password you can reset it from the sign-in page, which emails a one-time code to the address on the account. That means whoever can read that inbox can take over the account, so keep the address secure and current — if you lose access to it, write to support@voxenmusic.com before you lose access to the account too.

Give accurate information when you sign up. If you connect a payment account or a streaming profile, you are confirming it is yours.

You can change your display name, bio, photo, links and role at any time in your profile settings.

5. Your music, and who owns it

You keep ownership of everything you upload — instrumentals, vocals, artwork, samples, artist photos. Uploading something to Voxen does not transfer any part of it to us.

You do give us a limited licence to host it, process it, and show it to the people the product is meant to show it to: to store your files, to run them through the mixing and mastering pipeline, to stream previews on your beat and profile pages, to display them on a public challenge board if you enter one, and to include them in a release package you ask us to build. That licence exists only so the platform can work. It is non-exclusive, it earns us nothing, and it ends for new uses when you remove the content or close your account.

You promise that you have the rights to what you upload. That includes clearing any sample, interpolation, or third-party recording inside a beat before you post it. Uncleared samples are the most common way a collaboration falls apart later, and they are your responsibility, not ours.

Who owns what in a finished song is whatever you and your collaborator agree in its split sheet. The split sheet records four things separately: who owns the recording and each person's share of what it earns, each person's share of the songwriting, who may release the recording, and the credits. Voxen does not take a share of your music or your royalties.

6. Versions, reviews and splits

An artist recording on a beat creates a version. The producer reviews each version and can accept it, ask for a revision, or decline it. A revision is attached to the version it answers rather than becoming a new one.

Accepting a version is a commitment to a collaboration. Declining one is not an insult and is expected — but leaving work unanswered is what damages the marketplace, so the platform records whether collaborations finish and reflects that in the reliability figure shown next to your name. That figure measures whether your work completes, not whether it is good. Ratings and reviews are separate and are shown separately.

The producer's terms on the beat are an opening offer. Once a take is delivered, either of you can sign the terms on the table or propose different ones, and nothing is mixed until you have both signed the same version. Proposing terms counts as your signature on them. After you have both signed, the terms are locked: they change only if you both sign an amendment, and until then the signed terms stay in force. A recording fee pays for the artist's work and does not transfer ownership or change anyone's share.

A collaboration can only be distributed through Voxen's release tools once its terms are signed and say who may release it, and only by the person they allow.

Split sheets generated by Voxen record what the two of you agreed. Voxen is not a party to them and does not give legal advice. Check that any agreement meets your needs before you rely on it; if the stakes are high, have a lawyer read it.

7. Automated processing

When a vocal lands on a beat, the platform automatically checks it, matches it to the instrumental's tempo and key, mixes it, and masters it to a loudness target for the genre. The mixing, mastering and stem separation run on our own servers; the checks against released music and for AI-generated audio run through outside services. Section 3 of the Privacy Policy lists who receives what.

Voxen also runs background helpers that can suggest artists for a beat, start a mix when a vocal arrives, assemble release paperwork, and write your daily briefing. By default these suggest and wait for you. You can set any of them to act automatically in Settings, and you can set them back. We will not switch that on for you.

Text these helpers write for you — a briefing line, an invitation note, release copy — is generated by a language model and can be wrong. Every number they quote is read from your own data, not written by the model. Check anything before you act on it.

Cue, the assistant in the corner of the page, is a language model too, and its answers can be wrong in the same way. Your Cue chats are stored, and Voxen staff may read them to give support and improve the product; section 2 of the Privacy Policy says how long they are kept.

The platform may also run an automated check that estimates whether audio appears to be AI-generated. It is an estimate. It is not a determination about you, and a score is not by itself grounds for anything.

Automated mixing can fail. When it does you will see the failure on the collaboration and both parties are emailed, and either of you can retry it. If a mix cannot be completed and a recording fee has already been paid, contact us and we will sort it out.

8. Payments

Where a collaboration involves a recording fee, the artist is paid through Stripe. Voxen charges a platform fee of 10% of that fee (5% when the producer paying it is on Voxen Pro), taken at the time of payment. Card processing is shown to the payer as its own line at checkout.

Payouts, timing, holds and any reserve are governed by Stripe, not by us. Card details never touch our servers.

A recording fee pays for the artist's work and their time. Once a vocal has been delivered, the fee is not automatically refundable because you did not like the take — that is what the review, revision and decline steps are for. If something has genuinely gone wrong, or the platform failed to produce the mix, write to us and we will look at it.

Where a payment is refunded, in full or in part, we record it against that collaboration and it stops counting as earnings. If a payer raises a chargeback with their card issuer, the outcome is decided by the issuer and by Stripe, not by us; while one is open we may hold the associated payout, and if it is decided against the recipient the funds and any related fee can be taken back. We record the state of a dispute separately from the state of the payment, so an open chargeback is never shown as money returned.

Release passes and Voxen Pro

Making a song is free. Making a mixed song release-ready (the 24-bit WAV master and the release kit) takes a release pass, or a party to the song having Voxen Pro. An unlocked song is unlocked for both people on its split sheet and never locks again. Unused passes never expire and can be refunded within 14 days of purchase; a pass spent on a song cannot be refunded. Paid plans start only after we announce them; until then every song is release-ready at no charge.

Voxen prepares songs for distribution. It does not distribute them. This is what an unlocked song includes, and what it does not:

Taxes on what you earn are yours to handle. Voxen does not withhold tax and does not give tax advice.

Disputes between two users about the work itself are between those users. We will help where we reasonably can, and we can see what the platform recorded, but we are not an arbitrator.

9. Challenges

A producer can open a challenge on a beat: anyone may record a version, entries appear on a public board, and listeners can vote.

Some things worth knowing before you enter:

• Recording a version on a beat with an open challenge enters you automatically. You do not press a second button.
• The board is ranked by votes measured against the number of people who listened, so an entry posted early does not win on exposure alone. It is the crowd's opinion and is labelled as such.
• The producer picks the winner, not the vote. The board informs that choice and does not decide it.
• Anyone can listen and vote, including people without an account. Submitting requires an account.
• Every entrant is told when a winner is picked, not just the winner.
• A challenge closes at its deadline. Entering does not create an obligation on the producer to release, pay for, or use any entry unless they say otherwise in the challenge itself.

Any prize, fee or promise attached to a challenge is between the producer running it and the entrants. Voxen hosts the board.

10. Invite links

Every link you copy out of Voxen — a beat, a challenge, your profile — already carries your invite code. If someone follows it and signs up, they are credited to you.

Credit goes to the first link a visitor arrives on and is never reassigned afterwards, because there is no way to tell a genuine correction from someone taking a credit that was not theirs. You cannot refer yourself.

Creating accounts to inflate your own referral numbers, or driving fake traffic to your links, is a breach of these terms and we will remove the credit.

Sharing a link shares the page it points at. Only share beats, challenges and profiles you are happy for people to see.

11. Releasing your music

Voxen can assemble a release package: the master, the metadata, a summary of the signed agreement and the signed PDF, upload instructions, and a checklist of what to do after release: who uploads, paying the recording's shares, registering the songwriting and entering credits. Those steps are yours; Voxen does not do them for you.

Anything you put on a release page — the credits, the artwork, the smart link, the "Made on Voxen" credit — is published for anyone with the link to see. You are responsible for making sure everyone named on it agreed to be.

If you collect fan email addresses through a release page, those people gave their address to you. Handling them lawfully — consent, an unsubscribe, and whatever your local law requires — is your obligation, not ours.

12. Recording in your browser

The recorder asks your browser for microphone access. It records only while you have started a take, the audio is converted in your browser, and nothing is sent to us until you choose to upload. You can revoke microphone access in your browser at any time.

Use headphones. The recorder deliberately turns off the browser's echo cancellation, noise suppression and automatic gain control, because all three damage a sung take. Without headphones your microphone will pick up the beat as well as your voice, and the platform will reject the recording as unusable.

Only record where you are allowed to. If someone else is audible on your take, that is your responsibility to have cleared.

13. What you may not do

• Upload anything you do not have the rights to, including uncleared samples and other people's recordings
• Pass off someone else's work as yours, or impersonate another person, artist or business
• Harass, threaten or abuse anyone on the platform
• Upload anything unlawful, or content that sexualises minors, incites violence or promotes hate
• Upload malicious files, or attempt to break, overload, scrape or probe any part of the service
• Try to reach data, accounts, files or admin pages that are not yours
• Take a collaboration off-platform specifically to avoid the platform fee after using Voxen to make the introduction
• Manipulate ratings, votes, listens, play counts or referral credit — including with extra accounts
• Use the platform to launder money or to move funds for anything other than the work described
• Resell or redistribute access to the platform itself

14. Early access

Voxen is a young product and is being built quickly. Features can change, move or be removed, and some of them are clearly labelled as estimates or as work in progress.

Keep your own copies of anything you care about. Your original recordings should live on your own machine as well as here — that is good practice for any hosted service, and it is honest advice for one at this stage.

15. Suspension and ending your account

We can suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, or where we are required to by law. Where it is reasonable and lawful to do so, we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond. For anything that puts other users or their money at risk, we may act first and explain afterwards.

You can stop using Voxen whenever you like. You can delete your account yourself, in Settings → Delete account. We ask you to sign in again first, because it cannot be undone, and it takes effect immediately. If you would rather we did it, email support@voxenmusic.com from the address on the account and we will action it. See the Privacy Policy for what happens to your files and what we have to keep.

Ending your account does not undo a collaboration that already happened, a payment that already settled, or a split sheet both parties signed.

16. Warranties and liability

Voxen is provided as it is. We do not promise it will be uninterrupted, that every mix will succeed, that a beat will find an artist, that a song will do well, or that any figure the platform shows is a prediction of anything.

Nothing here limits liability for anything that cannot lawfully be limited — including fraud, or death or personal injury caused by negligence.

Beyond that, and to the extent the law allows: we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profits, lost opportunities, lost royalties or lost data; and our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the greater of the platform fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred US dollars.

We are not responsible for what other users do — the quality of their work, whether they finish it, what they say, or what they claim to own.

17. Changes, law and contact

We may update these terms. When we make a change that materially affects your rights, we will say so on the platform before it takes effect. Carrying on using Voxen after that means you accept the new version. The date at the top always reflects the current one.

If one part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands.

These terms are governed by the law of the State of New York, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the courts located there have jurisdiction — except where the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim locally, which these terms do not take away.

Questions, disputes, deletion requests, or anything that looks wrong: support@voxenmusic.com. A real person reads it.