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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 gua

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

jacquesm 7y ago
That acquisition was the reason why I made a fork of the freedb database, I'm actually pretty happy with how long they held out. I would encourage everybody to download the software: http://www.freedb.org/en/download__server_software.4.html http://www.freedb.org/en/download__server_software.4.html And the db: http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/ http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/ It would be good to have multiple copies floating around.
- Scoundreller 7y ago
  4gb for the whole database (compressed). It seems like so little for artists/tracknames of every piece of music ever published (to CD), because it would take 0.1% of my disk space, while knowing it's so much data.
  - big_chungus 7y ago
    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.tar.bz2 http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-complete-20191203.ta...
    - emmelaich 7y ago
      Thanks! It's 948Mb.
      - codetrotter 7y ago
        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: bytes Content-Length: 994443538 Content-Type: application/x-tar SIZE (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = 994443538 SHA256 (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = e005ec2ee3f3dabf2f5c45b49273358fcb796aae946cdfeeb31cd2e555b86978 MD5 (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = 6f8be385155242e11bae5d5acb557b5d . 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 SIZE (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = 179953 SHA256 (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = bec016250b06fa7aed368ca163489b72cebc93c1ae804e5f342cea3c64f5e4e4 MD5 (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = 2f0e6a0ec6a4157a5c3874fca10b33ce . 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 SIZE (freedb-proto5-update) = 5248 SHA256 (freedb-proto5-update) = 4cc1f7b7909c845c55fe1e8ea4b4844e45d2645d7ddec74300517378c2558081 MD5 (freedb-proto5-update) = 0ec2fb029e9aeae76ddf25daea8ddd59
        toomuchtodo 7y ago
        Would it be too much trouble to ask to put these in the Internet Archive as items while you’re at it?
        codetrotter 7y ago
        Good idea. I haven't uploaded to IA before, but it looks like I was able to do it. I put the software metadata attribute on the files, but other than that I wasn't sure of what other metadata to add if any. The files that were mentioned above should now be available at https://archive.org/details/freedb https://archive.org/details/freedb After uploading the files I noticed that there were some results on IA already for FreeDB, and one of the results is even a user named freedb which I guess might be an official account of the FreeDB people.
- sixtyfourbits 7y ago
  I made a torrent: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:96208ba12ca7ffdac5b5adccf1a41e484de94f4a&dn=freedb&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrentyorg.pl%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969%2Fannounce This includes all the files from your mirror except for the older database backups and the "latest" directory (which is just the extracted version of cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz).
  - deleted 7y ago
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  - jacquesm 7y ago
    Thank you for making this, I will seed the torrent for a couple of weeks or until it looks like nobody is downloading it anymore.
floatingatoll 7y ago
That headline is on web.archive.org as far back as 2014 (I didn't check earlier), so 'recent' may be a bit of a misnomer here.
- jwilk 7y ago
  It's been there since 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20061011154534/http://www.freedb.org/en/ https://web.archive.org/web/20061011154534/http://www.freedb... https://web.archive.org/web/20070303052016/http://www.freedb.org/en/forum/read.php?1%2C7 https://web.archive.org/web/20070303052016/http://www.freedb...

jacquesm 7y ago

That acquisition was the reason why I made a fork of the freedb database, I'm actually pretty happy with how long they held out. I would encourage everybody to download the software: http://www.freedb.org/en/download__server_software.4.html http://www.freedb.org/en/download__server_software.4.html And the db: http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/ http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/ It would be good to have multiple copies floating around.

Scoundreller 7y ago
4gb for the whole database (compressed). It seems like so little for artists/tracknames of every piece of music ever published (to CD), because it would take 0.1% of my disk space, while knowing it's so much data.
- big_chungus 7y ago
  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.tar.bz2 http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-complete-20191203.ta...
  - emmelaich 7y ago
    Thanks! It's 948Mb.
    - codetrotter 7y ago
      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: bytes Content-Length: 994443538 Content-Type: application/x-tar SIZE (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = 994443538 SHA256 (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = e005ec2ee3f3dabf2f5c45b49273358fcb796aae946cdfeeb31cd2e555b86978 MD5 (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = 6f8be385155242e11bae5d5acb557b5d . 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 SIZE (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = 179953 SHA256 (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = bec016250b06fa7aed368ca163489b72cebc93c1ae804e5f342cea3c64f5e4e4 MD5 (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = 2f0e6a0ec6a4157a5c3874fca10b33ce . 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 SIZE (freedb-proto5-update) = 5248 SHA256 (freedb-proto5-update) = 4cc1f7b7909c845c55fe1e8ea4b4844e45d2645d7ddec74300517378c2558081 MD5 (freedb-proto5-update) = 0ec2fb029e9aeae76ddf25daea8ddd59
      - toomuchtodo 7y ago
        Would it be too much trouble to ask to put these in the Internet Archive as items while you’re at it?
        codetrotter 7y ago
        Good idea. I haven't uploaded to IA before, but it looks like I was able to do it. I put the software metadata attribute on the files, but other than that I wasn't sure of what other metadata to add if any. The files that were mentioned above should now be available at https://archive.org/details/freedb https://archive.org/details/freedb After uploading the files I noticed that there were some results on IA already for FreeDB, and one of the results is even a user named freedb which I guess might be an official account of the FreeDB people.
sixtyfourbits 7y ago
I made a torrent: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:96208ba12ca7ffdac5b5adccf1a41e484de94f4a&dn=freedb&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrentyorg.pl%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969%2Fannounce This includes all the files from your mirror except for the older database backups and the "latest" directory (which is just the extracted version of cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz).
- deleted 7y ago
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- jacquesm 7y ago
  Thank you for making this, I will seed the torrent for a couple of weeks or until it looks like nobody is downloading it anymore.

floatingatoll 7y ago

That headline is on web.archive.org as far back as 2014 (I didn't check earlier), so 'recent' may be a bit of a misnomer here.

jwilk 7y ago
It's been there since 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20061011154534/http://www.freedb.org/en/ https://web.archive.org/web/20061011154534/http://www.freedb... https://web.archive.org/web/20070303052016/http://www.freedb.org/en/forum/read.php?1%2C7 https://web.archive.org/web/20070303052016/http://www.freedb...