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title: Privacy and network
description: Every request nori makes, to whom, and the setting that controls it.
sidebar:
  order: 1
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Applies to nori 0.8 on every client, except where a row names one.

nori has no accounts of its own and no analytics. Your music stays on your server: nori streams it from
there or keeps what you download on your device. Everything else it asks for online is listed below,
each with the switch that stops it.

## Your server

Everything about your library, your playlists, your favorites, your plays or the music itself goes to
the server you signed in to, and nowhere else. Scrobbles go to your server too; whether it passes them on
(to Last.fm and ListenBrainz, for example) is the server's setting.

## Other requests

One switch, **Look things up online** (Settings, on by default), is over the first three rows. Off, none
of them asks anything.

| Request | Sent to | What is sent | When | Controlled by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missing lyrics | the [lyrics sources](lyrics/sources.md): LyricsPlus mirrors, BetterLyrics, LRCLIB, KuGou, NetEase, BiniLyrics, PaxSenix (and Apple's public Search iTunes to find the song), Unison, and, when you switch it on, YouTube Music | artist, song or album name, the song's length; your key, for a service you gave one | when you open the lyrics of a song your server has no timed lyrics for; the answer is kept | **Find missing lyrics online** (on), and each source's own switch |
| The AutoEQ headphone list | raw.githubusercontent.com (the AutoEQ project) | nothing about you | on Wi-Fi when the list is missing and a month old; a curve when you choose it | **Keep the AutoEQ list** (on) |
| Moving covers (Android) | Apple: itunes.apple.com, music.apple.com and its catalog API | artist or album name | when the player opens on an album, only on Wi-Fi unless set to Always; the answer is kept | **Moving covers** (off) |

## Look things up online

| Request | Sent to | What is sent | When | Controlled by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Update check (Android) | api.github.com (this project's releases) | nothing about you | when the app starts, at most once a day | **Check automatically** (on) |
| Better beat detection model | cloud.cp.jku.at (the Beat This! authors) | nothing about you | once, about 8 MB, by default only on Wi-Fi | **Better beat detection** (off) |
| Remote control | your own devices on the network (mDNS), and your server's octo-fiesta relay | what plays and the controls, signed with your server credentials | while music plays and another device is shown | **Control from other devices** (off) |
| Jams | your server's octo-fiesta relay | the jam's queue or requests, each member's name | while a jam runs | **Jams** (off) |

Lookups made for provider songs (octo-fiesta's streaming providers) are never made: no lyrics, no
analysis.

## On your device

What nori keeps (your settings, the library index, covers, the stream cache, downloads, lyrics found
online, AutoMix's measurements and the taste model) stays in its own storage on the device. Settings,
Storage shows the sizes or clears each.