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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
by mark-r 7y ago
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.
- big_chungus 7y agoThe DB and server software are available; I use it for the same case and am putting up my own instance. EAC allows adding a custom freedb server, as I recall.
- stordoff 7y agoI'm tempted to do the same, but as someone who is buying _new_ music on CD this doesn't particularly help. It seems CTDB provides access to MusicBrainz, so that might be my alternative. http://cue.tools/wiki/CTDB_EAC_Plugin http://cue.tools/wiki/CTDB_EAC_Plugin
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- StavrosK 7y agoEAC is still around? Is it still being updated?
- Lammy 7y agoYep! It's been "stable" (>= 1.0) since 2015, has seen a handful of releases since, and will surely see more when the time comes: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=EAC_release_history http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=EAC_release_histo...
- anonymoushn 7y agoI typically buy music that isn't in any DB anyway, so I enter it on vgmdb then use vgmdb's cddb endpoint. Maybe one of the competing services will work for you for commercial music?
- badatseciruty 7y agoThe software and the database can be downloaded. There's already a few links here to do just that. I'm sure a few clone sites will pop up and you could always run a local copy yourself. If Exact Audio Copy doesn't allow you to set the API to connect to, you could always use some proxy software (I use Charles) to forward freedb links to your chosen replacement.