On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 08:03:17PM -0500, Bryan Steele wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 07:48:47PM -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.
> > 
> > ok?
> > 
> > -Bryan.
> > 
> > [0] http://www.freedb.org/en/
> > [1] 
> > https://blog.metabrainz.org/2018/09/18/freedb-gateway-end-of-life-notice-march-18-2019/
> 
> First diff missed a few things..

Not looking for okays now, too soon. Maybe a replacement will show up.
Sorry for jumping the gun.

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