This page is short on purpose, and it is the project's settled position rather than one maintainer's opinion on a given day.

What Playarr is

Playarr is a media server. It catalogues media that is already present on storage you control, and streams it to client applications you run. That is the entirety of what it does.

What it is not

Playarr supplies no media and ships nothing preconfigured that points at any external source. The server itself performs no indexing and obtains no media itself.

When a user with request rights asks for a title that is not in the library, Playarr Server passes the request on to wherever the administrator's "Where requests go" setting in Playarr Admin sends it. The default is Direct: the server asks the operator's own library manager (Radarr or Sonarr) to add the title and look for it. An Ombi or Seerr style request manager receives requests only when an administrator chooses it there (if the chosen one is not enabled, the request fails, with no fallback). "Direct + mirror" sends to Radarr or Sonarr and also copies an approved request into every enabled request manager. Whether and how those applications search for or acquire anything is set up and controlled by the operator, under the operator's responsibility. Playarr itself obtains no media.

Operators who do not want this can withhold the request permission. It is off by default for new accounts, administrators can always request, and thePLAYARR_REQUESTS_ALLOW_ALL_USERS setting, which grants it to every account, is off unless an operator sets it.

Where it reads from library-management applications, it reads only what those applications have already organised on your own storage, titles, file paths and metadata identifiers.

Your responsibility

You are responsible for the legality of what you store, play and share using this software, under the law that applies to you. Running a server for other people, or joining servers together, does not move that responsibility elsewhere. If you are unsure whether something you hold may lawfully be shared with a particular person, the answer is to find out before you share it.

You are also responsible for ensuring that every person you invite is allowed to access the media. Do not use Playarr to infringe rights, evade access controls, distribute unlawful material, harm others or interfere with the service.

What this project will not help with

Maintainers will not assist with obtaining media, will not discuss sources of media, and will not accept contributions, documentation, issues or feature requests directed at those ends. Requests of that kind will be closed with a link to this page. This is not squeamishness, it is the line that keeps a neutral tool a neutral tool.

Enforcement

The project may reject support requests, and may block hosted-service use, that violates this policy, threatens the service or creates legal or security risk.

Reporting a concern

Rights holders and anyone reporting abuse can write tosupport@playarr.app. For a security concern you can also open an issue, without including private details.

Please include the work concerned, where it appears, your contact details, and a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised.

Playarr hosts no content. Media on a self-hosted server is stored and shared by that server's operator, so complaints about it should go to the operator of that server. We will respond to what falls within the project's control.

No warranty

This software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, as set out in theMIT licence.