None of this is required disclosure. It is here because installing a program written by a
stranger deserves the whole truth, not only the pretty half.
The program's menus are in Portuguese
VPX was written in Brazil, for Brazil, and its interface has not been translated yet — you can
see it in the screenshots above. The buttons are few and mostly obvious
(LISTA = playlist, EQ, TURBO, ESQUERDO/DIREITO = left/right), but if you want everything in
English, this is the honest place to say it is not there today.
Made by a solo developer, as a hobby
VPX is not a company product. It is a personal project, no team and no store badge:
it is not on the Microsoft Store or in any Windows app store.
Under the hood it is a packaged web app
It is a web page (the same kind of code a website is made of) wrapped in a Windows installer
using Electron. That is a common and legitimate technique, but it means the installer does not
carry the paid digital signature of a registered company.
So Windows will warn "unknown publisher"
Without that signature, SmartScreen shows the blue "Windows protected your PC" screen.
That is expected: it is not a virus signal, it is the absence of an expensive certificate a
solo developer normally does not have. To continue, click "More info" and then "Run anyway".
Installing through winget or scoop avoids the prompt entirely.
The risk gets reduced, not denied
Installing anything from outside an official store asks for a little more trust in the author.
That is why the 3-day trial comes before any charge, the program runs locally (your audio files
never go to any server) and support is by e-mail, from a real person.
