What Driex does with your music
This page is for the people who own music. In plain words: what happens to a song inside Driex, and what explicitly does not.
What this is for
Driex is a music app for driving. It picks the music itself and shapes it live: a song builds as you accelerate, settles at a red light, opens up in a bend. Not as an effect on top. The parts of the song simply sit at different volumes, brightness and width.
The purpose isn't to alter music. It's to make a song land in a moment where it would otherwise just play in the background. The car is one of the last places where people listen to music fully and on purpose. Driex takes that place seriously.
What's in it for your music
Honestly: Driex is small and just starting out. But the place it gives your music is special:
- Full attentionIn a car there's no second screen and no scrolling on. Whoever drives, listens. Your song gets the room all to itself.
- Foreground, not wallpaperDriex makes music the lead of the drive. It carries the moment instead of decorating it. That's exactly how it sticks.
- Curated, not endlessA small, hand-picked catalog instead of a feed of millions: every song actually gets played and actually gets heard, not buried.
Why four tracks instead of one file
On import, each song is separated once, one time per song on my server, and never again. Inside the app the four tracks always play together and perfectly in sync: same song, four faders instead of one.
With a single file there'd be exactly one fader: louder or quieter. That's volume automation, not an experience. Only four tracks turn a song into a drive.
What actually happens while you drive
The mix is recalculated 20 times a second, on the device, from speed and motion. These layers sit on top of each other:
- SpeedThe base level follows your speed, from standstill to motorway.
- Throttle and brakesA burst of acceleration pushes bass and drums forward; slowing down pulls the mix back rather than simply turning it down.
- CornersIn a bend the melody opens and brightens instead of getting louder.
- City, country road, hillStop-and-go sounds different from open road; a climb counts as effort even when the speed stays the same.
- The car itselfDriex recognises gear-change gaps and an EV's regenerative braking and holds the music together through them.
- Road noiseAt speed, consonants and snare are lifted so the voice doesn't drown in the cabin. A correction, not a volume push.
- Vocals take priorityWhen singing carries, everything else steps back. The song stays recognisable, always.
The transition between two songs
The change runs through the four tracks too: bass and drums hand over evenly, melody and vocals with an offset so two vocal lines never overlap. If the tempos are close, they're matched for the transition. A change takes a few seconds and always ends in the next complete song.
What explicitly never happens
- No remix, no mashup, no new version of a song.
- No handing out of stems: they are never published, sold or passed on, and can only be heard inside the app.
- No model training on your music.
- No permanently muted track: all four stay audible.
- No pitch shifting during a song.
- No lingering after the end: if an agreement expires, I remove the music from the catalog with the next update.
How I handle rights
Driex is still in development, and I build it alone. A clean foundation matters more to me than shipping fast: I only want to use music with clearly agreed permission. In writing, with a named scope, and with a description of exactly what you're reading on this page.
If anything about this use doesn't sit right with you, tell me, better before than after. And if you need this explanation as a document, I'll send it to you.
— Ben Dürringer
Write to me
I'm Ben, 20, from Balingen in Germany. Driex is my project, and your message lands directly with me: no agency, no ticket system, no waiting loop.
And if you want to see how your music feels in Driex: send me one song, and you'll get a real drive back, as a video, with your song in the lead role.
Send an emailcontact@driex.app