Gracenote, CDDB and freedb musings
I have had several software programs that I paid good money for. When I purchased and installed them they worked well in looking up CD music tracks. Now they don't want to fetch the information. The issue is with Gracenote when the software accesses the music database.
A Google search shows that the CDDB is no longer accessable because of Gracenote claims to ownership and is demanding ever increasing licensing fees. We the people filled that database.
My iTunes is broken and my Creative products as well. Other people are having problems.
I contributed some of the songs listed in that database and always assumed that it was open for all of us. Imagine to my surprise to find that we were misled or lied to. Henceforth if I have the opportunity to add songs to that database the information will not be accurate at all. In fact it might go beyond gibberish. Look at is as my version of the Boston Tea Party or civil disobedience. Or a poison pill. I get real sloppppy with my tyuping.......or can you delete the information that I contributed?
I intend to speak of this issue far and wide. I also will continue to promote Nero products as they use freedb. I will encourage other software companies to change to freedb. I will also encourge someone to write a intercept software program to convert requests from software like Creative to query the freedb database instead.
I have to use XP currently because equivalent software does not exist for Linux yet. Both of my computers are now dual boot with XP and SuSE 10.0. I now have even more reason to switch to Linux.
Power to the people!
I have had several software programs that I paid good money for. When I purchased and installed them they worked well in looking up CD music tracks. Now they don't want to fetch the information. The issue is with Gracenote when the software accesses the music database.
A Google search shows that the CDDB is no longer accessable because of Gracenote claims to ownership and is demanding ever increasing licensing fees. We the people filled that database.
My iTunes is broken and my Creative products as well. Other people are having problems.
I contributed some of the songs listed in that database and always assumed that it was open for all of us. Imagine to my surprise to find that we were misled or lied to. Henceforth if I have the opportunity to add songs to that database the information will not be accurate at all. In fact it might go beyond gibberish. Look at is as my version of the Boston Tea Party or civil disobedience. Or a poison pill. I get real sloppppy with my tyuping.......or can you delete the information that I contributed?
I intend to speak of this issue far and wide. I also will continue to promote Nero products as they use freedb. I will encourage other software companies to change to freedb. I will also encourge someone to write a intercept software program to convert requests from software like Creative to query the freedb database instead.
I have to use XP currently because equivalent software does not exist for Linux yet. Both of my computers are now dual boot with XP and SuSE 10.0. I now have even more reason to switch to Linux.
Power to the people!
posted by Bacardi | 5:59 PM
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