This is not good news folks
http://freedb.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=292Freedb is not able to operate without Joerg and Ari. There are other - hopefully free - projects that will take over freedbs heritage in a better way and stay free. freedbs future did not seem to be kept free regarding the lastest developments, so I tried to steer against this as I felt it more important to stay free instead of getting fancy web 2.0 features. But unfortunately Joerg and Ari (the main doers behind freedb) disagreed with me and decided that they want to go another direction. I will refuse to comment their postings in plublic and I will thank both Ari anf Jörg for their work and their support.
Now being sick of how things turned out lately and I am not being able to run the project with the people in freedb left, I will stop this project in the forseeable future.
For those of you who are not aware of what Freedb does, its a CD information database, many rippers query this particular one for the track names, times etc
Here is a list of programs affected
http://freedb.org/freedb_aware_apps.phpThe only good news I see is that its possible to download the entire database from them.
http://freedb.org/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=12I hope another site takes up the work Freedb where doing, its a real loss to many.
