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Muzio Player (rebranded as "Music Player — MP3 Player") is a music-playing Android app available on the Google Play store.
Background
Muzio Player update introduces mandatory phone permissions
Sometime around March 2025, Red Sky Labs made an unannounced update to Muzio Player that required access to the user's phone logs, contacts, and other related aspects. Refusing the new permissions would cause the application to not function. According to the information provided by the developer, it was for their "After Call" feature that dealt with scanning for viruses.
Red Sky Labs' response
Due to the negative reception from the community, Red Sky Labs removed the phone permissions and the "After Call" feature on 17 February 2026.
[...] Those phone log permissions and the After Call feature were absolutely a mistake. We've completely removed them to prioritize your privacy[...] Please update to the latest version; we're committed to a clean, music-focused experience![1]
Consumer response
The reaction was negative, with many either updating their old reviews — or submitting new ones if for the first time — to a one-star rating. The most common complaints were:
- Invasion of privacy
- Unable to use the app if access was refused, even on the premium version
- Advertising on the call screen or the app's UI overlay in general interfering with the phone app's UI
- Bloatware since anti-virus scanning was a completely unrelated field for a music player to expand into
One enterprising individual decided to investigate this change for themselves and determined that no virus scanning was actually taking place:
"After clicking around on the application, fortunately nothing suspicious came up. Lots of calls were made to websites made for advertisement with some information about the device being sent. [...]
The application never made any kind of virus scan after the calls, it just displayed more advertisement than in the app and on startup[...] Fortunately it was “just” that and not for some sort of other shady stuff."[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Red Sky Labs (17 Feb 2026). "Music Player — MP3 Player (formerly Muzio Player)". Google Play. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Krypton (13 Feb 2026). "Investigating a music player app that claims to scan against viruses". krypton.ninja. Archived from the original on 8 May 2026. Retrieved 7 May 2026.