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I imagine as you get up and running, you'd end up with industry contacts, access to industry data sources and so on but I'd be interested to know how these sorts of things get started?
I first read it as freeBSD!!
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It's less than 1GB; the four large archives you see that are each nine-hundred-and-change megs are dated snapshots. Just pull the latest from here (current as of 12/03/2019): http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-complete-20191203.ta...
Thanks! It's 948Mb.
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freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data
curl -I http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:42:04 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
Last-Modified: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:14:50 GMT
ETag: "542dff-3b460112-8295de80"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 994443538
Content-Type: application/x-tar
SHA256 (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = e005ec2ee3f3dabf2f5c45b49273358fcb796aae946cdfeeb31cd2e555b86978
MD5 (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = 6f8be385155242e11bae5d5acb557b5d
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cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, was "cddbd-1.5.2.tar", last modified: Sat Jul 1 17:47:47 2006, max compression, from Unix, original size 675840
curl -I http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:45:17 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
Last-Modified: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:06:55 GMT
ETag: "20bb2f-2bef1-a6738dc0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 179953
Content-Type: application/x-tar
Content-Encoding: x-gzip
SHA256 (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = bec016250b06fa7aed368ca163489b72cebc93c1ae804e5f342cea3c64f5e4e4
MD5 (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = 2f0e6a0ec6a4157a5c3874fca10b33ce
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freedb-proto5-update: Perl script text executable
curl -I http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-proto5-update
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:47:34 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
Last-Modified: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:05:29 GMT
ETag: "20bbac-1480-f00ce040"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 5248
Content-Type: text/plain
SHA256 (freedb-proto5-update) = 4cc1f7b7909c845c55fe1e8ea4b4844e45d2645d7ddec74300517378c2558081
MD5 (freedb-proto5-update) = 0ec2fb029e9aeae76ddf25daea8ddd59
Seeing FreeDB reminds me of Audiograbber.
Ah, memories.
Disclaimer: I know nothing about what led to this situation Found it a bit sad to see this notice followed by a recent news headline saying the project was guaranteed to continue: Continuation of the free database guaranteed With the acquisition of the www.freedb.org domain MAGIX also takes on all duties regarding the worldwide freedb community
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Thanks! It's 948Mb.
Some more details about the files for future reference. (Sizes listed below are measured in bytes.) . freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data curl -I http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:42:04 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) Last-Modified: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:14:50 GMT ETag: "542dff-3b460112-8295de80" Accept-Ranges: by…
That'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.
It 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.
As a slightly unrelated note, how do these sort of databases actually get bootstrapped? I imagine as you get up and running, you'd end up with industry contacts, access to industry data sources and so on but I'd be interested to know how these sorts of things get started?
It has always been like that in the Web 1.0 days: just a bunch of people being anal about something.
And it worked beautifully.
That'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.
I'm sorry you found it unsustainable, but from what I can find about Daz it seems to have been pretty much the same idea as Gracenote: take the data submitted by users out of their desire to share alike, lock it up, and then commercialize it by putting a bunch of semi-related functionality around it. Assuming this link is the correct Daz, anyway, it talks about mp3 downloads, used CD shopping, artist exclusives, and other things I was always very glad FreeDB didn't want to be:
https://www.j-oe.nl/2011/06/development-of-daz-com-share-you...
"Visitors and members can search for all kinds of music related information and listen to ten thousands various samples. DAZ.com offers members a free mp3 to download every day (see homepage) and two RSS feeds: the free mp3 of the day and the updates from last 24 hours. Feel free to point your reader to this feeds.
In the near future we will add more community features, create a better user-interface and offer a second hand cd-spot. At the moment I am contacting with signed and unsigned artists to discuss ways of working together."