diff --git a/core/archipelago/src/api/rpc/package/install.rs b/core/archipelago/src/api/rpc/package/install.rs
index a2e0d83e..9607f1b0 100644
--- a/core/archipelago/src/api/rpc/package/install.rs
+++ b/core/archipelago/src/api/rpc/package/install.rs
@@ -720,7 +720,14 @@ impl RpcHandler {
                 )?;
                 let secret_hex = hex::encode(secret);
                 let settings = format!(
-                    "use_default_settings: true\ngeneral:\n  instance_name: Archipelago Search\nserver:\n  secret_key: \"{}\"\n  bind_address: \"0.0.0.0\"\n  port: 8080\n  limiter: false\nui:\n  default_theme: simple\n",
+                    // `search.formats` MUST include json. SearXNG's default is
+                    // html-only, so the JSON API answers 403 — and AIUI's web
+                    // search is a JSON client (`/aiui/api/web-search` proxies
+                    // straight to `/search`). Without this line every AIUI web
+                    // search fails on a node whose SearXNG is running
+                    // perfectly, which reads as the AI being unable to search
+                    // rather than as one missing config key.
+                    "use_default_settings: true\ngeneral:\n  instance_name: Archipelago Search\nserver:\n  secret_key: \"{}\"\n  bind_address: \"0.0.0.0\"\n  port: 8080\n  limiter: false\nsearch:\n  formats:\n    - html\n    - json\nui:\n  default_theme: simple\n",
                     secret_hex
                 );
                 tokio::fs::create_dir_all(searx_dir)
diff --git a/neode-ui/src/services/contextBroker.ts b/neode-ui/src/services/contextBroker.ts
index accbf2fa..41c340e2 100644
--- a/neode-ui/src/services/contextBroker.ts
+++ b/neode-ui/src/services/contextBroker.ts
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ export class ContextBroker {
         method: 'music.list-tracks',
         params: { limit: 500 },
       })
-      return { films: [], songs: adaptLibraryTracks(res.tracks ?? []), podcasts: [] }
+      return { ...emptyBundle(), songs: adaptLibraryTracks(res.tracks ?? []) }
     } catch {
       return emptyBundle()
     }
diff --git a/scripts/first-boot-containers.sh b/scripts/first-boot-containers.sh
index 6751f51b..561998e1 100755
--- a/scripts/first-boot-containers.sh
+++ b/scripts/first-boot-containers.sh
@@ -1225,6 +1225,12 @@ server:
   bind_address: "0.0.0.0"
   port: 8080
   limiter: false
+# json is required: SearXNG defaults to html-only and answers 403 on the
+# JSON API, which is the only thing AIUI's web search speaks.
+search:
+  formats:
+    - html
+    - json
 ui:
   default_theme: simple
 SEARXCFG