Version 1 · Effective July 26, 2026
These Terms and Conditions (the "Terms") are a binding contract between you and Mountain Melody Hideaway, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company ("Mountain Melody Hideaway," "we," "us," or "our"), governing your use of the WoodShed application for macOS, iPadOS, Android, and Windows, together with any content, models, sample material, and updates we make available through it (collectively, "WoodShed" or the "App").
By tapping "Agree & Continue," or by otherwise installing, accessing, or using WoodShed, you accept these Terms in full. If you do not agree, do not use WoodShed. Your acceptance is recorded on your device, together with the version of these Terms you accepted and the date you accepted it.
These Terms apply to every edition of WoodShed, including any free-trial period. Section 19 adds terms that apply if you obtained WoodShed from the Apple App Store or Mac App Store; Section 20 does the same for Google Play and the Microsoft Store.
PLEASE READ SECTION 17 CAREFULLY. IT REQUIRES MOST DISPUTES TO BE RESOLVED BY INDIVIDUAL BINDING ARBITRATION, AND IT WAIVES YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION. YOU MAY OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION WITHIN 30 DAYS UNDER SECTION 17(f).
You must be at least 13 years old to use WoodShed. WoodShed is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly permit their use of it.
If you are under 18 — or under the age of majority where you live — you may use WoodShed only if your parent or legal guardian has read these Terms and agreed to them on your behalf. If you are that parent or guardian, then by agreeing you accept these Terms both for yourself and for the minor, you agree to supervise the minor's use of WoodShed, and you are responsible for that use — including the music the minor imports and anything the minor records, exports, or shares.
By agreeing, you represent that you have the legal capacity to enter into this contract and that no applicable law bars you from doing so.
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to install and use WoodShed on devices you own or control, in each case as permitted by the usage rules of the app store you obtained it from — including any family-sharing or device-count rules that store imposes.
WoodShed is licensed to you, not sold. We and our licensors retain all right, title, and interest in and to WoodShed — its software, models, sounds, graphics, brand, and documentation — and all intellectual property rights in them. You receive no rights except those expressly granted here.
On macOS, iPadOS, and Android, WoodShed offers a free trial period followed by a one-time in-app purchase that unlocks the full App. On Windows, WoodShed is sold as a paid-upfront Microsoft Store app with a Store-provided trial; that edition has no in-app purchase, no account, and no cloud sync. Which edition you have determines how Section 10 applies to you.
You agree not to, and not to permit anyone else to:
WoodShed processes audio that you bring to it. We do not supply, select, host, index, stream, or provide access to any music, and we have no knowledge of and no control over what you import.
For every file you import into WoodShed, you represent and warrant that you own it, that you have obtained every license, permission, and consent necessary to use it the way you are using it, or that your use is otherwise permitted by law. Determining that is your responsibility, and yours alone.
You further represent and warrant that you did not obtain the file by circumventing — and that you will not use WoodShed on any content you obtained by circumventing — any digital rights management or other technological protection measure. That includes ripping or re-recording a subscription streaming service, defeating copy protection on a disc or a download, and downloading from a source that was not authorized to distribute the work. Circumventing a technological protection measure is separately unlawful in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 1201 and under comparable laws elsewhere, and no part of WoodShed is designed or intended to help you do it.
What WoodShed produces from your files is derived from them. Separated stems, tempo- and pitch-shifted renders, trimmed or edited audio, mixes, takes you record over a track, exports, chord charts, transcriptions, and generated notation may each remain subject to the rights in the underlying recording and composition. WoodShed's processing creates no new rights, launders no existing ones, and does not make a protected work yours. How you use, keep, perform, publish, upload, distribute, or monetize any of it is your responsibility.
WoodShed is built for private study and practice — learning a part, slowing a passage down, playing along. We make no representation that any particular use of any particular recording qualifies as fair use, fair dealing, or any other exception, and nothing in these Terms or in the App is legal advice. If you intend to publish, perform publicly, distribute, or commercialize anything you made with WoodShed, obtain your own advice and your own licenses first.
We do not receive your files. In the current editions of WoodShed, your imports, projects, stems, and recordings are stored and processed entirely on your device; we hold no copy and have no access. If we later offer an optional cloud-sync service, using it would grant us only the limited license to store, transmit, and reproduce your files as necessary to operate that sync for you — and we would say so in an updated version of these Terms before it launched.
Copyright complaints. If you believe that material made available through WoodShed infringes your copyright, write to us at woodshed.feedback@gmail.com with enough detail to identify the work and the material at issue, your contact information, a statement of your good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner or the law, and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf. We will respond appropriately, and we may suspend or terminate the access of anyone we determine to be a repeat infringer.
WoodShed can use your device's microphone to tune, to meter your input level, and to record practice takes. It never monitors your microphone back through your speakers, and it never uploads what it captures.
You are responsible for complying with the laws that govern recording where you are. Some jurisdictions require the consent of every person recorded; others require only yours. Do not record another person — a teacher, a bandmate, a student, an audience — without the consent the law where you are requires, and do not record a performance, lesson, rehearsal, or venue where recording is prohibited.
If your recording captures someone else's performance or composition, that person's rights apply to your recording too, and Section 5 applies to it in full.
LOUD AUDIO CAN CAUSE PERMANENT HEARING LOSS AND TINNITUS. THE RISK IS GREATER WITH HEADPHONES OR EARBUDS, AND GREATER STILL OVER LONG PRACTICE SESSIONS. SET THE VOLUME LOW BEFORE YOU START, RAISE IT ONLY AS FAR AS YOU NEED, AND TAKE BREAKS.
WoodShed changes levels, mutes and unmutes stems, generates metronome clicks and count-ins, and plays back audio you supply, whose loudness we neither know nor control. A change in the mix or a switch of output device can be abrupt. Check your volume after any such change, and before putting headphones on.
WoodShed is a practice tool. It is not a medical device, a hearing-protection device, or a dosimeter, and it makes no claim about safe listening levels or durations. If you experience ringing, muffled hearing, ear pain, or any physical discomfort while playing or listening, stop and consult a qualified professional. Practicing an instrument carries physical risk of its own; how much you play, and how, is your judgment to exercise.
Several of WoodShed's features are automated estimates produced by signal processing and machine-learning models. They include, without limitation: pitch detection and tuning; beat, downbeat, tempo, and meter detection; chord and key recognition; stem separation; waveform peaks; transcription; and generated notation.
THESE FEATURES ARE APPROXIMATIONS AND ARE OFTEN WRONG. THEY WILL MISREAD SOME MUSIC, AND THEY WILL BE CONFIDENTLY WRONG ABOUT SOME OF IT. DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR ANY PROFESSIONAL, ACADEMIC, COMMERCIAL, OR PERFORMANCE PURPOSE WITHOUT VERIFYING THE RESULT YOURSELF.
Use your ears. Nothing WoodShed reports substitutes for your own judgment, a teacher's, or a published score. We are not responsible for a wrong note, a wrong chord, a wrong tempo, a failed audition, a rejected assignment, or any other outcome that follows from relying on an estimate.
WoodShed stores your projects, audio, stems, recordings, and settings on your device. Backing them up is your responsibility. Deleting a project, deleting the App, resetting or losing your device, or running out of storage can destroy your work permanently, and we cannot recover it.
Audio processing — stem separation in particular — is computationally heavy. It can consume significant processor, memory, storage, and battery, and it can make your device run warm. Some features need more memory or storage than a given device has, and will decline to run rather than risk failing partway. Whether your device is suitable is for you to judge.
Operating-system updates, hardware changes, permission changes, and audio-device changes can all affect how WoodShed behaves. We support the platforms and versions we choose to support, and that set can change.
WoodShed offers a limited free trial. When the trial ends, continued use requires the applicable purchase. The trial is provided as-is and may be changed or withdrawn for future users at any time; the trial length in effect when you installed is the one that applies to you.
All payments are processed by the app store you obtained WoodShed from — Apple, Google, or Microsoft. We never receive or store your payment details. Prices, currencies, and taxes are set and displayed by that store, and can change.
Refunds are handled by that store under its own policies, not by us. We cannot issue, approve, or compel a refund of a store purchase. If you want one, request it from Apple, Google, or Microsoft.
A purchase unlocks the features of WoodShed as they exist at the time of purchase. It is not a promise of any future feature, platform, model, or service, and it does not entitle you to any cloud service we may offer later. Whether a purchase restores on another device depends on that store's account and family-sharing rules.
Some WoodShed features depend on machine-learning models and sample content that download on demand from our hosting rather than shipping inside the App. Those downloads can be large, may incur data charges on a metered connection, and require available storage.
We do not guarantee that any download service will be available, uninterrupted, or fast. We may change, replace, or retire a model or an asset — including for licensing, cost, safety, or quality reasons — which can change or remove a feature.
We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of WoodShed at any time, with or without notice, and we are not liable to you for doing so.
We may update these Terms. When we make a material change, we will raise the version of these Terms and present them again inside the App for your agreement, and you will need to agree before continuing to use WoodShed. The effective date at the top shows when the current version took effect. Non-material changes — typographical corrections, clarifications — may be made without re-presenting the document. If you do not agree to an updated version, your remedy is to stop using WoodShed.
You may end this agreement at any time by deleting WoodShed from your devices.
We may suspend or terminate your license immediately if you breach these Terms, if we are required to by law or by an app store, or if we reasonably believe your use exposes us or anyone else to legal liability. On termination, the license in Section 3 ends and you must stop using and delete WoodShed. Termination does not entitle you to a refund except where the applicable store's policy or the law provides one.
Sections 4, 5, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 24 survive any termination of this agreement, along with any other provision that by its nature should survive.
WOODSHED IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, MOUNTAIN MELODY HIDEAWAY AND ITS SUPPLIERS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT WOODSHED WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, THAT ITS ANALYSES OR OUTPUTS WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT IT WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR WORK WITH YOUR DEVICE OR YOUR FILES.
No advice or information, oral or written, obtained from us or through WoodShed creates any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limits on statutory consumer rights, so parts of this Section may not apply to you; in that case such warranties are limited to the minimum duration and extent permitted by law, and your statutory rights are unaffected.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, MOUNTAIN MELODY HIDEAWAY AND ITS MEMBERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, RECORDINGS, PROJECTS, GOODWILL, OR OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO WOODSHED OR THESE TERMS, ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO WOODSHED OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID FOR WOODSHED IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS (US$50).
These limits apply to all claims — whether in contract, warranty, tort (including negligence), strict liability, statute, or otherwise — and they apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose. They are an essential basis of the bargain between us: without them, WoodShed would not be offered at this price.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited — including, where applicable, liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or under any non-waivable consumer-protection law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so parts of this Section may not apply to you.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Mountain Melody Hideaway and its members, officers, employees, contractors, and suppliers from and against any claim, demand, proceeding, loss, liability, damage, judgment, settlement, fine, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to:
We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, at your expense, and you will cooperate with us. You will not settle any matter in a way that imposes any obligation or admission on us without our prior written consent.
THIS SECTION REQUIRES YOU AND MOUNTAIN MELODY HIDEAWAY TO RESOLVE MOST DISPUTES BY INDIVIDUAL BINDING ARBITRATION INSTEAD OF IN COURT, AND IT WAIVES BOTH A JURY TRIAL AND ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. READ IT CAREFULLY. YOU MAY OPT OUT WITHIN 30 DAYS UNDER PARAGRAPH (f).
(a) Informal resolution first. Before starting an arbitration, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by emailing woodshed.feedback@gmail.com with a short description of the dispute and the relief you want; we will do the same for any dispute we have with you. If it is not resolved within 60 days of that notice, either of us may begin arbitration. This step is a condition precedent to arbitration, and any limitations period is tolled while it runs.
(b) Agreement to arbitrate. Except as stated in paragraphs (d) and (g), any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to WoodShed, these Terms, or their breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation, or validity — including whether a claim is subject to arbitration — will be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, as modified by these Terms. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this Section.
(c) How it works. The arbitration will be conducted by a single arbitrator. Unless we agree otherwise, it will take place in the county where you live, or — at your election — by telephone, by videoconference, or on documents alone. The arbitrator may award any relief a court could award to you individually, and the award may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. We will pay filing, administration, and arbitrator fees to the extent the AAA's Consumer Arbitration Rules require, and we will not seek our attorneys' fees from you unless the arbitrator finds your claim frivolous.
(d) Small claims. Either of us may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court, so long as it stays there and stays individual.
(e) CLASS-ACTION AND JURY WAIVER. YOU AND MOUNTAIN MELODY HIDEAWAY EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND THE RIGHT TO BRING, JOIN, OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY AWARD RELIEF ONLY TO THE INDIVIDUAL PARTY SEEKING IT, AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT PARTY'S INDIVIDUAL CLAIM REQUIRES. IF THIS PARAGRAPH IS FOUND UNENFORCEABLE AS TO ANY CLAIM OR REQUEST FOR RELIEF, THAT CLAIM OR REQUEST WILL BE SEVERED AND HEARD IN COURT UNDER SECTION 18 WHILE THE REST PROCEEDS IN ARBITRATION; THIS PARAGRAPH IS OTHERWISE NOT SEVERABLE FROM THE AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE.
(f) Your right to opt out. You may reject this arbitration agreement by emailing woodshed.feedback@gmail.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out" and stating your name and the device you use. Opting out affects nothing else in these Terms, and we will not treat it as a reason to refuse you service.
(g) Exceptions. This Section does not apply to a claim to protect intellectual property, including an application for injunctive relief, and it does not apply where the law where you live prohibits it — including for consumers resident in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, who retain their right to bring proceedings in their local courts.
(h) Changes to this Section. If we materially change this Section after you accept it, you may reject the change by emailing us within 30 days of its effective date, in which case the version you last accepted continues to apply between us.
These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to WoodShed, are governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.
For any dispute not subject to arbitration under Section 17, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Clark County, Nevada, and each of us waives any objection to that forum.
If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose law gives you the benefit of mandatory local consumer protections or a local forum, nothing in this Section deprives you of them.
This Section applies if you obtained WoodShed from the Apple App Store or the Mac App Store, and it controls over anything inconsistent elsewhere in these Terms as it concerns Apple.
If you obtained WoodShed from Google Play, these Terms are between you and us only; Google is not a party to them and is not responsible for WoodShed. Google Play's Terms of Service and any applicable device or usage rules also apply to your download and use, and Google handles billing and refunds.
If you obtained WoodShed from the Microsoft Store, these Terms are between you and us only; Microsoft is not a party to them and is not responsible for WoodShed. The Microsoft Store Terms of Sale and the Microsoft Services Agreement also apply, and Microsoft handles licensing, the Store trial, billing, and refunds. The Windows edition is sold paid-upfront: it has no in-app purchase, no account, and no cloud sync, and it runs entirely on your device.
Where a store's own terms conflict with these Terms as to that store's role, that store's terms control as to that role.
WoodShed is subject to United States export-control laws, including the Export Administration Regulations and sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control. You may not use, export, re-export, or transfer WoodShed except as those laws permit. You represent that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any embargoed or restricted jurisdiction, and that you are not on any U.S. Government restricted-party list.
WoodShed is "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation" as those terms are used in 48 C.F.R. § 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. § 227.7202. U.S. Government end users acquire only the rights stated in these Terms.
WoodShed includes third-party and open-source components, and downloads machine-learning models, each provided under its own license. Those licenses govern those components, and to the extent any of them grants you rights broader than these Terms, those rights control for that component. Third-party components are provided by their own authors without warranty from us, and Sections 14 and 15 apply to them.
Our Privacy Policy explains what WoodShed collects and why. It is incorporated into these Terms by reference. You can read it inside the App at Settings → Legal, or on the web at https://woodshedstorage.z5.web.core.windows.net/privacy-policy.html.
Mountain Melody Hideaway, LLC — a Nevada limited liability company. Email: woodshed.feedback@gmail.com. Send written notices to that address.