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How streaming on AfroMbira works, what Premium includes, how artists are paid, and what happens to your data. If your question is not answered here, contact support.
AfroMbira is a music streaming service built around African music. It brings together Afrobeats, Amapiano, Bongo Flava, Highlife, Gqom and other genres from across the continent and its diaspora in one catalogue, and pays the artists behind that music when their work is played.
You can browse the catalogue, read artist pages and explore genres and playlists without an account. Creating a free account is what lets you actually play tracks, build playlists, follow artists and keep your library in sync across devices.
Yes. There is a free tier supported by advertising, and a paid Premium tier that removes ads and adds unlimited skips and offline playback. You can use the free tier indefinitely without entering payment details.
Plays are counted when a listener plays a track for at least thirty seconds. Those qualifying plays feed the royalty figures shown in the artist dashboard, and payouts are made against that record. Artists can see their own play counts, follower numbers and royalty totals in the dashboard at any time.
Get in touch at [email protected] and we will walk you through onboarding an artist profile. You will need to be able to confirm that you hold the rights to distribute the recordings you want to upload.
Send us a takedown notice and we will remove it. Our copyright and DMCA policy sets out exactly what the notice needs to contain and where to send it, and we acknowledge every notice within two business days.
Offline playback is a Premium feature and is available in the mobile apps. Downloaded tracks stay available on the device while your subscription is active.
AfroMbira runs in any modern web browser on desktop and mobile, and there are dedicated Android and iOS apps. Your account, playlists and library are shared across all of them.
On mobile browsers, background audio is restricted by the operating system rather than by us. The mobile apps are the reliable way to keep playback running while you use other apps or lock the screen.
You can request deletion of your account and the personal data attached to it from the data deletion page. We confirm the request by email and remove the data within the period set out in our privacy policy.
The free tier is supported by advertising, including ads served by third-party vendors such as Google. Those vendors may use cookies to serve ads based on your visits to this and other sites. Our privacy policy explains this in detail and tells you how to opt out of personalised advertising.
Email [email protected] or use the contact page. We aim to respond within 48 hours.
See also our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Copyright & DMCA Policy.