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Terms

Last updated 2 October 2026.

These terms are the agreement between you and ChivanFOBO about the rpm apps and the rpm account. By installing an rpm app or creating an account, you accept them.

Who we are

rpm is published by ChivanFOBO, a sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak) registered in the Netherlands.

ChivanFOBO
's-Gravelandseweg 691
3119 XT Schiedam
The Netherlands
Chamber of Commerce (KvK): 96601094
VAT: NL199702731B02
support@rpmrpmrpm.com

What rpm is

rpm is a player for music you own: an app for macOS and Windows, an app for iPhone, and an optional account with cloud storage that lets your library follow you between your devices. It is not a music service, and we supply no music. Internet radio in rpm plays stations listed by Radio Browser, streamed by the stations themselves.

Licence to use the apps

  • The rpm apps are free. ChivanFOBO gives you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use them on devices you own or control.
  • You may not sell, rent, lend or distribute the apps, or remove copyright or licence notices from them.
  • Except where the law or an open source licence allows it, you may not modify, decompile or reverse engineer the apps.
  • The apps include open source components, listed with their licences on the credits page. Those licences apply to those components, and nothing in these terms limits them. For the components under the GNU Lesser General Public License, such as FFmpeg and TagLib#, you may modify the app for your own use and reverse engineer it to debug those changes. The credits page says how to get their source code.
  • The desktop app checks for new versions and downloads them by itself.
  • All rights not given to you here stay with ChivanFOBO.

Your account

The desktop app works without an account. Cloud storage, recognition, sharing between accounts, reviews and the iPhone app need one. You must be at least 16 to create an account. Use an email address you can receive mail on, and keep your sign-in to yourself: what is done with your account counts as done by you. You can delete your account at any time; see deleting your account.

Your music

You keep every right you have in the music and other material you upload. Upload only music you are allowed to keep a copy of. You allow us to store it, convert it to other formats and bitrates for streaming, and stream it to you and to the accounts you share it with. We use it for nothing else.

The cloud library is a convenience, not a backup. Keep your own copy of anything you would be sorry to lose.

Sharing your library

rpm can share your library with up to five computers and accounts in total, including other people's. Sharing with another person's computer is set up only when both computers are on the same local network and a code shown on one is typed on the other. A computer you share with can browse and play your library while it is on your network, and music in your cloud library stays playable for that person's account away from your network, until you stop sharing.

You are responsible for what you share. Share only what the law where you live allows you to share with the people you share it with. Do not use rpm to distribute recordings to the public. We may close an account that does.

Reviews and posts

Reviews, ratings, comments and posts on an artist's page are shown to all rpm users with your display name. Post only what you have the right to post, and nothing unlawful, abusive or misleading. You allow us to show what you post in rpm for as long as it is there, including after you delete your account, when it is shown as "Deleted user". We may remove a post that breaks these terms. You can report a post from the app.

Storage

An account includes 100 GB of cloud storage at no cost. When it is full, new uploads stop and nothing already stored is removed. If the free amount changes, you will be told before it affects anything you have already stored.

Supporters

Supporters get unlimited cloud storage, advanced recognition and the other extras listed on the supporter page. Supporter status cannot be bought yet: checkout is not open, and any supporter status that exists now was given by us. Before it goes on sale, these terms will be updated with the price, how payment and cancellation work, and your 14-day right of withdrawal as a consumer.

When supporter status ends, nothing is deleted. Music already in the cloud stays and keeps playing; what stops is uploading beyond the free 100 GB.

Other services

Connecting Discogs, entering a fanart.tv key, signing in with Apple or Google, listening to radio stations and casting to a Chromecast involve services run by others, and their terms apply to them.

Availability and liability

rpm is provided free of charge and as it is. We work to keep the service running and your files intact, but we do not promise that it is always available or free of faults, and features may change or end. If we close the cloud service, we will tell account holders by email in advance, so that they can download their music.

We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for the loss of data you could have restored from your own copy. As far as the law allows, our total liability is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits liability for intent or gross negligence, or any right you have as a consumer that the law does not allow to be limited.

Ending

You can stop using rpm and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, after telling you why, unless the law or the nature of the breach prevents that.

Changes

We may change these terms. We tell account holders about important changes by email at least 30 days before they take effect. If you do not accept a change, you can delete your account before then.

Law and disputes

Dutch law applies to these terms. If you are a consumer living in another EU country, you also keep the protection of the mandatory law of that country. Disputes go to the competent court in the Netherlands, unless the law lets you bring them before the courts where you live.

Questions: support@rpmrpmrpm.com.