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-wip
+API for music-graph.
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+This is a read-only wrapper for the data in the Neo4j database, it also serves the cover art, which is stored in a SQLite database.
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+This project is WIP, as such, it does not implement any kind of rate-limitting or configuration for ports and is mostly undocumented.