Dean Hamstead wrote:
>
> theres freedb.org or something to that effect
> like the "open" equivalent. I tend to get about
> 50 50 on hits and misses. Depends on the CD.
> Top 40 and popular stuff tends to be more likely
> than obscure or compilations. I guess its a matter
> of distribution.
Thanks Dean
After reading this on Freedb.org
......................................
As Escient has been changed the terms of licence for accessing CDDB,
some programmers
complained that the new licence includes certain terms that threatens
them in a way they cannot
accept: If you want to access CDDB, you are not allowed to access any
other CDDB-like database
(this one, for example) and - while accessing the database - the
programmer has to ensure, that a
CDDB-logo is displayed (Funny sidenote: One programmer told me, that his
cd-player will be banned
if he is refusing to display the CDDB-logo. His software is a
console-based program (it does not
produce any graphical output) for blind people...).
Always being able to choose is one of the advantages of the internet. If
Escient forbids the use of other
sources now, you can easily think of things coming next...
Furthermore, many people submitted the information without charging
anybody and they thought their
help would remain free, because the initital license was GPL (see:
www.gnu.org for more information on
GPL).
............................................
I won't be bothering with CDDB again.
Hmm, some of those Oz folk/bush lists came from me over the years.
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