What privacy means for unreleased music
The product decisions behind sharing work that is not ready for the world yet.
Privacy for unreleased music is more than hiding a page from search engines. It means designing every layer around the expectation that a track belongs to a small, intentional circle.
Access should be explicit
Every listening link needs a clear owner, a defined audience, and a way to be revoked. Private audio should never become public because of an ambiguous default or a URL that lives forever.
That principle shapes how tapedeck handles authorization, storage, and playback. Access is checked before metadata or audio is returned, and playback URLs are short-lived rather than permanent addresses to a file.
Privacy includes the boring details
Good privacy work is often invisible. Separate development and production data, avoid sensitive information in analytics, keep secrets out of clients, and make deletion predictable.
None of those choices creates a dramatic feature. Together, they create the confidence artists need before they upload something nobody else has heard.