Freedb.org Returns to Life

Trogre writes "The recently troubled free CD database freedb has been picked up by a group called Magix. From Kaiser's blog: 'Following my announcement that I would like to let freedb go, I was approached by many interested parties ... Even if I shall no longer be actively associated with freedb, I shall continue casting a critical glance on freedb's future. The decision in favour of MAGIX has given us a new prospect of further development, offered a congenial and comfortable atmosphere during difficult negotiations, and provided the newly implemented hardware with generous capacities.' This might be good news since Grip still doesn't support MusicBrainz."

Comments

Re:Grip?

[Trogre]

I'd love to switch, but sound-juicer is still far behind grip in almost every way.

It crashes much more often, has far fewer options for, well, everything but especially encoding and tagging, and just generally feels like beta software.

Maybe in a couple of years it might approach the functionality of grip. Or perhaps by then grip will have MusizBrainz support :)