Free CDDB

Mike Oliphant (oliphant nospam at ling.ed.ac.uk)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:26:39 +0000 (GMT)

What happened to the (IMHO quite sensible) idea to start this whole thing
off by setting up a CDDB database with free data? I'd love to have a free
site to set as the default CDDB server in my applications.

I just had a quick look at the code for v1.3 of the cddbd server.
Unfortunately, it seems that it pre-dates the use of the HTTP version of
the protocol. This is now the primary access method to the CDDB (CDDBP is
being phased out, as people behind firewalls could not use it) and many
players will only support HTTP access.

Mike