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Grip runs great with http://freedb2.org/

In the future freedb2.org will be importing and merging the data from a number of sources such as MusicBrainz and, as the resources become available, making all that information accessible in real-time via RSS feeds and the like.

The trouble with freedb is that it never has been free enough and I am working hard to try to change that.

Once again I would like to set the record straight. http://freedb2.org/ was written from scratch by myself with no reference to any of the original freedb code whatsoever, and I am the sole copyright owner on all of that code. It was derived strictly from the published cddb specifications and the contents of the database itself. You are right in thinking that there was much more going on that was publicly stated.

http://freedb2.org/ continues to thrive and grow and has been very well supported. I would like to thank everybody for that, and can guarantee that you will be able to enjoy the superior levels of service offered by freedb2.org for a long time to come. Please feel free to email me directly should you have any specific questions about it.

Once again I would like to set the record straight. http://freedb2.org/ was written from scratch by myself with no reference to any of the original freedb code whatsoever, and I am the sole copyright owner on all of that code. It was derived strictly from the published cddb specifications and the contents of the database itself. You are right in thinking that there was much more going on that was publicly stated.

http://freedb2.org/ continues to thrive and grow and has been very well supported. I would like to thank everybody for that, and can guarantee that you will be able to enjoy the superior levels of service offered by freedb2.org for a long time to come. Please feel free to email me directly should you have any specific questions about it.

And what's going to happen to Freedb2 (site that one of original founders forked from Freedb) then?

For a simple, fast and powerful alternative web technology that leverages PostgreSQL's innate technological superiority, please have a look at http://asmith.id.au/mod_libpq.html Put simply, this apache module allows you to bypass all the middleware baggage and build your web applications directly in your PostgreSQL database yielding tremendous advantages in speed and robustness. One well known example of this technology in action is http://freedb2.org/

Accepted money? Hell no. I've spent 6 months full-time out of the last 19 months, and most of what little money I had, to develop freedb2.org. The fact is I've had very little useful support from anyone and one hell of a lot of obstruction.

The so-called freedb team has always been incompetent and dysfunctional and I have made it my mission to fix that. Kaiser and Hevers have behaved like a pair of spoiled brats from beginning to end and now you see the result of that splashed all over the internet.

Whatever freedb2 ends up becoming I can guarantee you that it will be even more free than freedb.org. Please see http://freedb2.org/news.html for the specifics on that.

In the meantime, I invite you to enjoy http://freedb2.org/ and browse as much of the source code as I have had time to document

The GPL does not allow you to wait until the code is polished and documented to distribute it. If there are users, they must have access to the code, in whatever state it's in. Post a tarball now, and post a revision when you're done documenting it. Anything else is criminal.

I am both "the Australian guy" and the author and host of http://freedb2.org./ I sincerely hope that in future you will spend a bit more time joining the dots before jumping to such sensational conclusions.

In the meantime, I invite you to enjoy http://freedb2.org/ and browse as much of the source code as I have had time to document and post on http://asmith.id.au/freedb.html and http://asmith.id.au/mod_libpq.html

I am both "the Australian guy" and the author and host of http://freedb2.org./ I sincerely hope that in future you will spend a bit more time joining the dots before jumping to such sensational conclusions.

In the meantime, I invite you to enjoy http://freedb2.org/ and browse as much of the source code as I have had time to document and post on http://asmith.id.au/freedb.html and http://asmith.id.au/mod_libpq.html

I am the author of freedb2.org. It currently supports a subset of the old freedb protocol, enough to rip your CD's. Just point your software at http://freedb2.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi. There are also some new features which I will be documenting shortly. For some source code and a development history, please see http://asmith.id.au/freedb.html and also http://asmith.id.au/mod_libpq.html.