Andamp is a music player that runs on your phone. It has no account of its own and no server that collects anything. Nothing about you or what you listen to is sent to the developer. The only thing the app ever fetches from the developer's website is a file you asked for or a version number, described below, and neither request carries anything about you.
The rest of this document gives the details, and lists which other computers the app connects to and when.
What the developer receives
Nothing. There is no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking, and no third-party SDK that does any of those things. The app contains no code that reports usage anywhere.
What leaves your phone, and when
1. The skin museum. Opening Skins → Get more skins! asks skins.webamp.org for pages of the catalog and downloads previews and skin files from r2.webampskins.org. If you type in the search box, what you typed is part of that request. Those servers are run by the Webamp project, not by the developer of Andamp; like any web request, they can see the IP address the request came from. Andamp adds no identifier of its own to it. Close the browser and the app stops asking.
2. Internet radio. A station is a stream address you entered yourself. Playing it means connecting to that address, so whoever runs the station can see the connection, the same as any other player or browser would show them. Andamp sends nothing besides the request for the stream, which asks the station to include the titles of the songs it plays.
3. Installing an effect plug-in from mattix.nl. Tapping Install on mattix.nl/andamp/extensions/plugins opens Andamp, which downloads that one .lua file from mattix.nl over https and shows you what it is before anything is added. The request carries no identifier. Like any website, the site's hosting provider sees the IP address a request comes from.
4. Update checks for music sources. When you open the page of an installed music source in Preferences → Music sources, Andamp fetches a small file that holds that source's latest version number, to tell you if a newer one exists. The address is the one the source names: mattix.nl for the sources published with Andamp, the author's own site for any other. It carries no identifier. Andamp never downloads or installs an update itself; it only offers a link.
5. Cover art for music sources. When a music source is playing, Andamp loads the cover art that source points it to, from the service or server that source is connected to.
6. Links you tap. The mattix.nl link in the about box, More effects, More sources, a source's download page, and the source links on the open-source licenses page hand the address to your browser. What happens next is between you and your browser.
That is the complete list.
What stays on your phone
Kept in the app's own private storage, which no other app can read and which Android deletes when you uninstall Andamp:
- your playlist, the track you were on and where you were in it
- equalizer settings, effects and their values, and which visualizer you were using
- where you dragged each window and which ones were open
- bookmarks and any playlists you saved
- skins,
.luaeffect plug-ins and visualizer preset packs you installed - a cache of skin-museum thumbnails, so scrolling back is instant.
Your music never leaves the device. Titles, artists, album art and file paths are read to show them and to remember your place, and are stored only in that private storage.
Your phone's backup. If you have backup turned on in Android, it includes Andamp's settings and playlists like those of any other app, so they come back on a new phone. That backup is Android's, stored in your own Google account and end-to-end encrypted where your phone supports it; the developer has no access to it. The thumbnail cache is never part of it. You can switch backup off in Android's settings.
Music sources
A music source is a separate app you install yourself, only if you want it, that brings music from a streaming service or from a server of your own into Andamp. Each one:
- connects only to the service or server you connect it to, and hands the music to Andamp on the phone; it sends nothing to the developer
- keeps what it needs to stay connected - the server address, your user name, and a sign-in token or, where the service's protocol requires it, your password - in its own private storage, excluded from Android's backup
- forgets your sign-in when you sign out, and Android deletes everything it kept when you uninstall it.
What a streaming service does with your listening is covered by that service's own privacy policy.
Permissions, and what each is for
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
Music and audio (READ_MEDIA_AUDIO; on Android 12 and older, storage READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) | To list and play the music already on your phone. Decline it and the app still plays files you pick by hand. |
Display over other apps (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW) | Only for the floating player, which is off until you switch it on. It draws the player over other apps; it does not read them. |
| Internet | Everything listed under What leaves your phone. |
| Network state and Wi-Fi state | To notice when the connection comes back, so a radio stream can reconnect, and to keep Wi-Fi awake while a stream plays. |
Keep awake (WAKE_LOCK) | So the phone does not sleep in the middle of a track. |
| Foreground service (media playback) | So playback continues, with a notification, when the app is not on screen. |
Notifications (POST_NOTIFICATIONS) | Declared, but never asked for. The playback controls in the notification shade and on the lock screen work without it. |
Music source apps ask for Internet and network state only.
Children
Andamp is not directed at children and asks for no personal information from anyone.
Content from other people
The skin museum shows images uploaded by other people. Skins the museum has flagged as not-safe-for-work are never shown; their images are not even loaded. The developer does not host or moderate that catalog.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you may ask a controller for access to your personal data, its correction or its erasure. In this case there is nothing to ask for: the developer holds no data about you. The data on your phone is yours, and uninstalling the app removes it; a backup you made stays in your Google account until you delete it.
If you contacted the developer by email, that email is held for as long as it takes to answer you, and you can ask for it to be deleted.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the previous wording stays in the app's public git history.
Contact
Andamp is an independent replica of the Winamp 2.8 interface. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Winamp, Nullsoft, or Llama Group.