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CoverIQ scans the public Billboard Hot 100 and Apple Music charts every morning and produces a daily set of cover-worthy picks. Each pick comes with factual information about the song — its commonly-known key, tempo (BPM), basic structure, chord progression, and vocal range — plus AI-generated reasoning about why the song is cover-friendly. None of that is the song itself: no melody, no lyrics, no master recording. It's a roadmap to help you cover the song on your own.

When you click Download on a pick, your browser generates a piano backing track from the song's chord progression, transposed into the key that fits your voice. The track is rendered locally with a sampled piano — we don't fetch, sample, or modify the original recording. What lands in your Downloads folder is a new audio file we've synthesized from chord names.

Chord names are facts, not original works. You can't copyright "C, G, Am, F" any more than you can copyright the alphabet — that's settled in U.S. copyright law and most jurisdictions. The same goes for the song's key, BPM, and rough structure (verse, chorus, bridge). CoverIQ only ever processes that factual layer; it never reproduces a melody, lyric, or recording.

The backing track is a practice tool: made to play under your voice while you rehearse, demo, or record an original cover performance. It is not a substitute for a licensed instrumental or a karaoke track, and it doesn't include any part of the original artist's recording.

• Practice, rehearse, and learn songs at your own pace, in a key that fits your voice.
• Record your own cover performance — your vocals, your arrangement — using the backing track as a guide track.
• Post your cover to YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, or wherever you usually share covers, subject to the section below.
• Share the backing track with a bandmate or vocal coach you're working with. Don't put it behind a paywall or resell it.

If you record a cover and publish it — anywhere — you're creating a new performance of someone else's composition. That's a separate legal step from generating a backing track, and it's the cover artist's responsibility to handle it correctly.

In practice, most cover artists are covered by the licensing deals their distribution platform already has in place:

• YouTube uses Content ID to identify the composition and route ad revenue to the publisher; most covers monetize the original songwriter rather than the cover artist.
• Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook have blanket music-publishing deals that cover most personal cover posts.
• Spotify, Apple Music, and other DSPs generally require a mechanical license per release — handled by your distributor (DistroKid, CD Baby, Loudr, etc.) when you opt into a "cover song" release.

CoverIQ doesn't represent that any specific song is yours to cover, nor that the platform you're posting to has the right deals in place. If you're unsure whether your cover is licensed correctly — particularly for paid releases or monetized streams — talk to your distributor or an entertainment lawyer. We're a tool, not legal counsel.

• Repackage CoverIQ's backing tracks as a paid product (e.g., a "backing track library," a Bandcamp release of instrumentals, a karaoke service). The tracks are for personal practice and cover performances, not for resale as a standalone instrumental product.
• Claim a CoverIQ-generated chord brief or backing track as an original composition.
• Use the site to scrape charts, automate downloads in bulk, or do anything that would put unreasonable load on the service.
• Reverse-engineer or scrape the AI reasoning shown on the homepage and resyndicate it as your own editorial.

CoverIQ's analysis is best-effort. The original key, BPM, chord progression, and vocal range come from AI-generated estimates and may be wrong for any given song — especially for songs with non-standard tunings, unusual time signatures, or inconsistent published references. The transposition we suggest is a math-based starting point, not a guarantee that the song will fit your voice on the first take. Treat everything as a starting point worth double-checking, not a final answer.

The site is provided as-is. We don't promise it'll be up every minute of every day, and we don't promise the picks or backing tracks will be free of bugs. Phase 1 is a free, early-stage indie product; treat it accordingly.

What we collect, how we use it, and what we don't collect is covered separately on our Privacy page. The short version: no audio ever leaves your browser, voice-test data is only two numbers in Hz, and we don't sell or share your email.

If we change these terms in any meaningful way, we'll note it in the weekly newsletter before it takes effect. Minor fixes (typos, clarifying language) won't be announced. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page always reflects the current version.

Questions, takedown requests, or anything else? Email Dylan at dylan@dylanklineproductions.com.