{"id":"linuxserver-musicbrainz","name":"musicbrainz","af_score":59.5,"security_score":55.0,"reliability_score":48.8,"what_it_does":"MusicBrainz is a community-maintained music metadata database and public API that lets you search and retrieve information about artists, releases, recordings, recordings relationships, and related entities.","best_when":"You need open, community-curated music metadata and can work with the API’s search/model constraints (e.g., pagination and rate limiting).","avoid_when":"You require guaranteed correctness for niche/obscure metadata without additional verification or you cannot tolerate rate limits / community data variability.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T13:51:50.261450+00:00","has_mcp":false,"has_api":true,"auth_methods":["HTTP user-agent identification (per API policy)","OAuth not provided by default in the public API model (typically no OAuth for basic access; check current MusicBrainz API docs)"],"has_free_tier":true,"known_gotchas":["Community-curated data may be incomplete or inconsistent; design fallbacks.","Respect strict rate limiting and caching to avoid 429/over-limit responses.","Search results can vary depending on query formatting and normalization; expect occasional mismatches.","Pagination behavior (limit/offset vs cursor) must be followed per endpoint."],"error_quality":0.0}