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MusicBrainz has many features included to import data from FreeDB. Status: The following details a deprecated feature and is being retained only for historic value. GnuDB, created in 2006 to make sure CDDB remains alive and free, has been the natural successor. One of the advantages of this protocol is that it is practically the same as the original CDDB protocol, and could thus be used as a drop-in replacement for CDDB when Gracenote took it over.Īs a result, FreeDB has taken over as the de-facto standard CD recognition database for open source music software. There is a web interface to FreeDB but most access (lookups, submissions) takes place via the FreeDB protocol (which may be embedded in HTTP, but is not really accessible via a browser). The quality of the data is not always the best, and there is a lot of duplication in the FreeDB database. Technologically, it has remained fairly static since then, but it has amassed a very large number of releases. It was formed in response to the actions of Escient, which through its subsidiary, Gracenote, bought the rights to CDDB and restricted access to the data.įreeDB took the last available snapshot of data, and created their own server and database. 3.1.2 last audio track before data track is 2:32 too longį is another database of music metadata it is the open version of CDDB.3.1.1 Disc ID computed last track length is only an approximation.