diff --git a/architecture/jamendo-provider.md b/architecture/jamendo-provider.md
index 5037bc1..47866e1 100644
--- a/architecture/jamendo-provider.md
+++ b/architecture/jamendo-provider.md
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ Objects (fields we read):
 - **album**: `id`, `name`, `artist_name`; `/albums/tracks` returns the album
   wrapping a `tracks[]` array of the same track shape.
 
+**A `User-Agent` header is mandatory** (live-discovered 2026-07-24): Jamendo's
+API returns HTTP 200 `success` with an **empty** result set to any request that
+carries none — and `reqwest` sends none by default — so `JamApi` sets one. This
+is silent (no error), so a missing UA looks exactly like "no matches".
+
 Search parameters: `search` (free text across track/album/artist/tags),
 `namesearch` (name match), `tags` (AND) / `fuzzytags` (fuzzy OR),
 `order` (relevance, popularity, downloads, listens, releasedate, …). v1 uses
diff --git a/jamendody/src/api.rs b/jamendody/src/api.rs
index a58fce6..995f8c2 100644
--- a/jamendody/src/api.rs
+++ b/jamendody/src/api.rs
@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ impl JamApi {
     ) -> Result<Self, FetchError> {
         let http = reqwest::Client::builder()
             .timeout(timeout)
+            // Jamendo's API silently returns HTTP 200 with an empty result set
+            // (results_count: 0) to requests that carry no User-Agent — reqwest
+            // sends none by default — so a UA is mandatory, not cosmetic.
+            .user_agent(concat!("Mozilla/5.0 crabidy/", env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")))
             .build()
             .map_err(|err| FetchError::Http(err.to_string()))?;
         Ok(Self {