[Music] CDDB/Gracenote: money messes up a simple, free service

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MusicBrainz

Well, remember MusicBrainz, another CDDB competitor that sprang up in 2000? By now they've formed a not-for-profit-organization, are dedicated to keeping the data under open licenses, and have more powerful tools! In response to Magix's purchase, they released a CDDB compatible interface to their system in 2007! And shut it down in 2019. https://blog.metabrainz.org/2018/09/18/freedb-gateway-end-of-life-notice-march-18-2019/ To be fair, they only envisioned their CDDB interface being for backward compatibility, and encourage using their newer, more powerful API. 12 years seems reasonably generous to provide backward compatible support for someone else’s product.

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Finally, René Mogensen started GnuDb in 2006 to ensure FreeDB's data remained free and... it's still up? Good for Mogensen! But... I don’t use it. And that foreshadows the real end of the story.

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