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.
