diff --git a/backend/novasonic-server.js b/backend/novasonic-server.js
index ee90b48..c3152a5 100644
--- a/backend/novasonic-server.js
+++ b/backend/novasonic-server.js
@@ -312,38 +312,14 @@ app.get('/api/itunes/lookup', async (req, res, next) => {
 // ─── ITUNES PROXY ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 // Browsers can't call itunes.apple.com directly (no CORS headers). Proxy it here.
 // Note: /api/itunes/lookup is handled above — proxy only covers /search and id-based /lookup.
-//
-// Cached (30 min): iTunes' Search API rate-limits ~20 req/min per IP. Without a cache, heavy
-// download activity (each download does several album/track lookups) plus client searches blow
-// past that and Apple starts returning empty/throttle responses — so the Apple-Music search "finds
-// nothing". Serving repeated identical queries from cache keeps us well under the limit.
-const _itunesCache = new Map(); // target url → { ts, body }
-const ITUNES_TTL = 30 * 60 * 1000;
 app.get('/api/itunes/:endpoint', (req, res) => {
   const allowed = new Set(['search', 'lookup']);
   if (!allowed.has(req.params.endpoint)) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'not found' });
   const qs = new URLSearchParams(req.query).toString();
   const target = `https://itunes.apple.com/${req.params.endpoint}${qs ? '?' + qs : ''}`;
-
-  const cached = _itunesCache.get(target);
-  if (cached && Date.now() - cached.ts < ITUNES_TTL) {
-    res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
-    return res.send(cached.body);
-  }
-
   https.get(target, { headers: { 'User-Agent': 'NovaSonic/1.0' } }, upstream => {
-    let body = '';
-    upstream.on('data', d => body += d);
-    upstream.on('end', () => {
-      // Only cache a genuine iTunes response (200 + the resultCount signature) — never a throttle
-      // or error page, or an empty result would get pinned for 30 min.
-      if (upstream.statusCode === 200 && body.includes('"resultCount"')) {
-        if (_itunesCache.size > 500) _itunesCache.clear(); // simple bound
-        _itunesCache.set(target, { ts: Date.now(), body });
-      }
-      res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
-      res.status(upstream.statusCode || 200).send(body);
-    });
+    res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
+    upstream.pipe(res);
   }).on('error', e => res.status(502).json({ error: e.message }));
 });