www.mycds.com is a cddb killer w/17,000 cds

Peter Bierman (pmb nospam at mycds.com)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 17:52:44 -0800

I wrote/run www.mycds.com, which I've been working on as a CDDB killer
since before cddb went online. I've been sidetracked by college, and my
full time job at Apple, but I'm still chugging away.

I'm wondering if we can work together on a CD database. On one hand, I'm
not sure how I can afford to run the server if all of the data is free, on
the other hand, I'm sure that if someone collects hundreds of thousands of
CDs, and makes the data free, there won't be much point to my data.

I've had quite a few cddb developers contact me in the last few weeks
because of cddb's changes. I want to be more flexible than cddb, and I want
to / think I can make money off the web presentation of the data.

I'm *very* pro Open Source, but I'll admit I think the GPL is a bit
overboard. I've been pondering releasing my code for several months now.

Care to chat?

-pmb

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