MusicBrainz IP blocked

[msknight]

I tried to use MusicBrainz to find that my IP (it's a fixed IP) was blocked. I reached out and they responded...

Your IP was blocked because it repetitively queries our services using a placeholder user agent string "MusicCoverFetcher/1.0 (personal-use; [contact@example.com](mailto:contact@example.com))".
As per https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_API/Rate_Limiting we expect a way to be able to contact you.
Your IP was unblocked, but you have to fix your tool.

My collection is quite large and I'm not sure of a few things...

1. Where I set my e-mail in Music Assistant so that I comply with their requests when MA makes queries
2. I'm not sure whether MA scanning is actually responsible for my exceeding their rate limit... how do I find out?

Grateful for any advice please.

[OzGav]

Well it seems to me they are saying your use of MusicCoverFetcher is the cause?

[msknight]

Yes, but they are also saying that they expect my e-mail address for contact, is required as part of the query. I can't find anywhere to include that in the MusicBrainz configuration.

[OzGav]

Actually you dont even need to worry about that for MA as we run our own MusicBrainz mirror

[msknight]

Well, I'm hitting something...

2026-06-11 19:45:25.678 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.MusicBrainz] Attempt 1/5 failed: Rate Limiter
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2026-06-11 19:46:35.571 INFO (MainThread) [music_assistant.music.genre] Genre mapping scan completed: 0 items mapped (0.5s)
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2026-06-11 19:47:53.845 WARNING (MainThread) [music_assistant.metadata] Deprecated /imageproxy?provider=&path= request from 192.168.0.9 (UA: HomeAssistant/2026.6.2 aiohttp/3.13.5 Python/3.14); clients should read the proxy_id field on MediaItemImage and use the canonical /imageproxy/<proxy_id> endpoint instead
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[OzGav]

That is our mirror. This will be fixed in 2.9.1