freedb to be discontinued

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hello,

according to their web site the service freedb (which is used
by many of the tools we all love and use) is going to be
discontinued due to differences within the maintainers.

Read more (not enough to understand) here:
http://www.freedb.org/ (surely slow at the moment)

My initial source, german:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/74970

Very very sad indeed.

Regards,
Thorsten

 

[Craig]

Hello,

according to their web site the service freedb (which is used
by many of the tools we all love and use) is going to be
discontinued due to differences within the maintainers.

Read more (not enough to understand) here:
http://www.freedb.org/ (surely slow at the moment)

My initial source, german:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/74970

Very very sad indeed.

Thanks for the news. Bad though it is.

<sigh>
-Craig

 

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hello,

later also Slashdot got this story, where some comments are
interesting. Seems like one is continuing on freedb2.org.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/03/0055211

What is strange on original homepage, the domain owner claims
one reason for the problems is "freedbs future did not seem
to be kept free regarding the lastest developments", but
a little bit later he himself wants to sell the domain: "If
somebody is interested in a pretty well-known domain, drop
me a line: lurchentsafter at gmail.com".

Regards,
Thorsten

 

[Eugene Esterly III]

Hello,

according to their web site the service freedb (which is used
by many of the tools we all love and use) is going to be
discontinued due to differences within the maintainers.

Read more (not enough to understand) here:
http://www.freedb.org/ (surely slow at the moment)

My initial source, german:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/74970

Very very sad indeed.

Regards,
Thorsten

Well, freeDB is now continuing under a new person & the site is
http://freedb2.org/. Just change freedb.org in your music software to
freedb2.org & you should be all set. And yes, it is kind of sad about
what happened to freeDB,

 

[Thorsten Duhn]

Hello,

Well, freeDB is now continuing under a new person & the site is
http://freedb2.org/. Just change freedb.org in your music software
to freedb2.org & you should be all set. And yes, it is kind of sad
about what happened to freeDB,

I'm still trying to understand, what happened. As far as I know,
just this freedb2 was the cause of the dispute. It's source code
is still not completely available, open source, as well as it's
data (which is based on a later freedb dump, but maybe has
additions already). But yes, it supports the API as it is used
by the freeware apps we know.

update:

currently, there are talks with organisations regarding freedb's
future. I am trying to find an organisation that takes the domain
and ensures the following:
# they have to provide the freedb service, not only take the
domain
# the service must remain free of charge for users and developers,
regardless of the application
# database updates will be available on a regular schedule and
will be free of charge
# the licence of the data and the software will remain under the
GPL

So maybe the current domain will continue working. And maybe, with
a new enthusiastic owner and developer there is a chance these two
branches will merge some day. Still sad to see the potential split,
it's the purpose of this to collect "knowledge" from many many
users. The more projects, the less is collected by each.

Regards,
Thorsten

 

[aafuss]

Hello,


I'm still trying to understand, what happened. As far as I know,
just this freedb2 was the cause of the dispute. It's source code
is still not completely available, open source, as well as it's
data (which is based on a later freedb dump, but maybe has
additions already). But yes, it supports the API as it is used
by the freeware apps we know.



So maybe the current domain will continue working. And maybe, with
a new enthusiastic owner and developer there is a chance these two
branches will merge some day. Still sad to see the potential split,
it's the purpose of this to collect "knowledge" from many many
users. The more projects, the less is collected by each.

Regards,
Thorsten
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The commercial Nero, and other freeware alternatives uses freedb-will
it change to freedb2