Hello,

Lately, when I insert an audio CD, Banshee is failing to fetch its metadata. Using Wireshark to diagnose the problem, I captured its request to the MusicBrainz service:


GET /ws/1/release/?type=xml&limit=2&discid=2PhmsCZ_ZIVT6VMo.GjXcNlQu.w- HTTP/1.1
Connection: keep-alive
Host: musicbrainz.org

HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 17:52:22 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=20
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_perl/1.29
X-Rate-Limited: 50.2 50.0 10

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Too many requests from clients of this type
See http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=833

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According to this comment (http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=833&cpage=1#comment-16976) on the blog post mentioned in the error message, this error is returned when the requesting application does not send an User-Agent string.

I tested the same request externally, only adding an User-Agent header with the value "banshee" to it and the metadata was successfully returned as an XML document.