Master thread: Is my IP blocked / IP blacklisted / VPN blocked / QNAP / Can't connect to Musicbrainz.org / Picard doesn't work on home network

inktrap · July 8, 2021, 3:30pm

Hey how about

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

?

If I am blocked … Is there a way to find out why i have been blocked? I read about rate limiting, am setting a user agent and have a ratelimit and a ratelimit_interval.

Scapehips · July 9, 2021, 7:19am

Can you unblock me too? I am using a vpn. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx & xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Zas · July 9, 2021, 8:41am

This IP isn’t blocked on our side.

Zas · July 9, 2021, 8:49am

Those IPs belong to IP blocks that regularly abuse our services and are responsible of spam.
Sorry, but we’ll not unblock those, according to the long history of abuses.

Scapehips · July 9, 2021, 9:43am

I am one of the good users but that’s reasonable I guess.

tritrek · July 13, 2021, 6:03pm

Hello, I’m on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and I can open the MB website (doing LOTS of edits lately) but Picard stopped responding… no QNAP but like I said I am organizing my music collection so Plex might query a lot… Thanks.

tritrek · July 16, 2021, 8:03am

@Zas this is getting rather annoying, can’t process more than 5-10 albums in a run, then I’m getting the 404 error in Picard, can’t load album information, can’t find musicbrainz.org, etc… could you pls set the limiter to a higher value? I will never tag my collections with this pace… thanks

Zas · July 16, 2021, 2:46pm

You get such error?
Can you provide a debug log?

mpsi · July 16, 2021, 5:52pm

Edit: Deleted. My issue was due to an AWS server crash and not MusicBrainz.

kthxbai · August 2, 2021, 12:08am

Hi Zas,

since a few days I cannot access musicbrainz.org. Can you please unblock my IP address if it is blacklisted? Thx.
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Zas · August 2, 2021, 5:34am

This IP was blocked because it was associated with a QNAP device, it belongs to a huge dynamic IP block. If you own such device, ensure it was upgraded to latest OS. If not, you probably just got the IP of someone who had one, aka bad luck.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

kthxbai · August 2, 2021, 11:14am

I don’t own a QNAP device.
Thank you!

J_Bogatek · September 25, 2021, 2:26am

I think my IP is on your blacklist.
Can I be unblocked please?
IP = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Thanks in advance
Joe

Zas · September 25, 2021, 8:42am

This IP was not blocked, so the issue is elsewhere. Can you explain why you think this IP is blocked?

joebog1 · September 27, 2021, 12:41am

I am using DataCrow and when I try look up I get the message “cannot connect to MusicBrainz”. OK thankyou I will try again
Joe

Aristide131 · October 24, 2021, 10:05am

Hello I can no longer access the musicbrainz site and the API requests. I am developing an application for Android.(I can access services from 4G)
My IP address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Please let me know what’s wrong.

Zas · October 24, 2021, 10:08am

Your IP was in few public blocklists, likely because it was used by spammers or the like some time ago, it has now disappear from them, so you should now be able to access all our services again.

Aristide131 · October 26, 2021, 7:20am

Thanks, but the reason may be that I had to do a lot of API requests when developing the music part of my app?

Zas · October 26, 2021, 9:28am

Actually no, your IP was listed in few online malware/spam/abuse lists, likely because it is a dynamic IP and the host it was attached before was actually doing bad things.

If it was related to your use of our services, your IP would have ended in a different list.
Out of curiosity, which app are you working on?

Aristide131 · October 26, 2021, 9:47am

It is a rather sophisticated file explorer, which allows among other things to tag music files. I can send you a demo video capture if you want it privately.