Freedb to close

[Vincent Kars]

One of the oldest internet databases for tagging your CDs is closing down.
http://www.freedb.org/

 

[Wes]

well, that's sad

I checked the Goodwill auction site the other day and saw a lot of CDs for sale - in 25 lb. lots.

When CDs are getting sold in bulk lots they are dying out...

 

[bigx5murf]

I'm seriously bummed out by this, I use them all the time from foobar after ripping thrift score CDs. I must've used it half a dozen time sin the past week. But I understand it's a free service that's difficult to monetize.

 

[amirm]

What does this mean if they are closing:

Is that some stale news?

 

[thefsb]

I've been ripping with dBpoweramp and probably half the disks are only found in FreeDB. It has had a serious quality problem since forever but it turns out it's a lot better than nothing.

 

[Hugo9000]

What does this mean if they are closing:

View attachment 44949

Is that some stale news?

Apparently that statement you quoted dates back to 2006. I wonder why they didn't delete that when they added the announcement of the shutdown set for March this year.

Urgent notice

freedb.org and its services will be shut down on March 31st of 2020.

 

[Shadrach]

What a shame. It's saved me a lot of searching. I wonder what Exact Audio Copy will use if anything.

 

[Nango]

Go EAC and pay a little one-time fee for retrieving all the info + cover arts:
https://www.getdigitaldata.com/AppSignUp/EACSignUp.aspx

 

[Vincent Kars]

Is that some stale news?

Text probably dates from 2006 when Magix bought freedb.
Maybe dBpoweramp will continue the services.
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=118682.msg978995;topicseen#new

 

[HammerSandwich]

So... Discogs?

 

[thefsb]

So... Discogs?

No. Discogs DB doesn't have the required data for lookup given CD track info.

https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/789656

 

[Daverz]

Thankfully I've got my CD collection ripped. I only buy the occasional CD now, mostly stuff that can't be downloaded/streamed, so typing in tags is not that much of a burden.

 

[thefsb]

Afaict, dBpoweramp refuses to work with Cue Tools DB (CTDB). So when freedb.org closes it will be very limited. Otoh, it's the only software I have found that makes batch ripping fast. The only interaction I need is to put a new disk in the drive and close it.