Freedb.org Ending

Freedb, the free music database used by tons of CD ripping software, has been shut down due to a disagreement among its developers. One of its developers used a data dump from the original freedb.org and is providing the service at freedb2.org, though, and will be adding features and posting them at his site as they become available. Unfortunately, a database dump or source code for freedb2.org is yet nowhere to be found.

This sucks. FreeDB was an awesome service that was far more accurate than other DBs out there. There is a makeshift replacement site up, but it’s hard to say if it will completely take over.