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Freedb.org Returns to Life

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-to-see-them-back dept.

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."

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  1. Thanks, Michael by MikeO · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hats off to Michael Kaiser for being the caretaker of freedb for the past 7+ years and remaining true to the community spirit the service represents.

    Many digital music collections, mine included, owe a lot to freedb.

  2. Re:Freedb2? by Horar · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Freedb2? by Jay+Carlson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://freedb2.org/ continues to thrive and grow and has been very well supported.

    Cool. So where can I download your database?

    I'm not joking. I can download wikipedia. I downloaded a couple versions of the original cddb back when we were all running off Sparcstations.

    The way we got here was to freely exchange metadata about CDs we own. freedb2.org doesn't say anything about how to get at the data behind it. In fact, it doesn't really say anything at all about where its data came from. (Before you claim that you can't pay for the bandwidth to support downloads of your full database, trust me, I can find somewhere to host it for you.)

    I typed in plenty of CD metadata. I showed you mine; so show me yours.