Marc Espie wrote in <20191229101350.ga17...@nausicaa.home>: |On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 07:48:45PM -0500, Bryan Steele wrote: |> With FreeDB announcing[0] that the service will be shutting down as of |> March 31st of 2020, and the only other alternative (MusicBrainz) already |> having shutdown their freedb/cddb gateway in favour of their own API |> early this year, it likely makes sense to remove support from cdio(1). |> |> CDDB is used to retrieve music CD metadata over the Internet, e.g: |> Artist and Track names. |> |> I left in support for the "cdid" command as it may be useful for |> archival(?) purposes, if not that can go too. |> |> Cc: espie@ as he wrote this code, & maybe he still has music on CDs. | |How about we wait until the service actually shuts down ? | |Who knows, maybe someone else will pick up ? | |It's fairly sad, as this means you would have (again) to annotate mp3s |you make from your own CDs by hand.
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