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Stories and comments across the archive that link to freedb2.org.

Stories · 2

  1. Should freedb's Data Be Public Domain?

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the cd-information-wants-to-be-free dept. · 210 comments
    Horar asks: "There's been a lot of recent fuss over freedb. My position is that freedb was just not free enough, and I would like to find a way to bring all the data into the public domain, just as MusicBrainz has done with much of their data. I had not thought that this would be possible until I received advice from various parties suggesting that it was. So now I ask Slashdot if this is true? Can the freedb data legally be brought into the public domain at this time, and if so how? Most importantly, would it be 'The Right Thing To Do'?"

  2. Freedb.org Ending

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the this-too dept. · 245 comments
    haroldag writes "Freedb, the free music database used by tons of CD ripping software, has been shut down due to a disagreement among its developers. One of its developers used a data dump from the original freedb.org and is providing the service at freedb2.org, though, and will be adding features and posting them at his site as they become available. Unfortunately, a database dump or source code for freedb2.org is yet nowhere to be found."