FreeDB Is Shutting Down
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FreeDB Is Shutting Down
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#2It seems like this is some archaic service that provides song titles and album artist information for some physical DRM-free uncompressed audio format from years gone.
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#3Should anyone want to parse the dataset as it is today and do something with it, I recently wrote some Go to that end:
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#4That's a real pity, but they didn't stand a chance against musicbrainz:
I ran a similar service for years (daz.com) and eventually shut it down because musicbrainz was not worth competing with though I think we did a better job of tying the links between the various bands by tracking artists from one act to another, also studio artists which made it quite nice for music discovery.
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#5I first read it as freeBSD!!
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#6How is MusicBrainz doing? The blog has recent updates, that's a good sign. https://musicbrainz.org/
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#8That's a real pity, but they didn't stand a chance against musicbrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/ I ran a similar service for years (daz.com) and eventually shut it down because musicbrainz was not worth competing with though I think we did a better job of tying the links between the various bands by tracking artists from one act to another, also studio artists which made it quite nice for music discovery.
Just wanted to say the same. This is the last time to update all the clients relying on FreeDB to use MusicBrainz, it's about time.
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#9How is MusicBrainz doing? The blog has recent updates, that's a good sign. https://musicbrainz.org/
They're doing great. Quite a lot of edits flowing in, dataset growing and being fixed. It's a great volunteer effort. Could always use more developers and editors though.
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#10It seems like this is some archaic service that provides song titles and album artist information for some physical DRM-free uncompressed audio format from years gone.
Yes it is, and it works brilliantly for that use case. I like to rip my own CDs so that I know the source of my music and can control the quality. I use Exact Audio Copy which has an automatic download from freedb.org. I have no idea what I'm going to do once it shuts down.