Freedb to close?

[LTR12101B]

http://www.freedb.org/

The future of freedb
freedb is not able to operate without Joerg and Ari. There are other - hopefully free - projects that will take over freedbs heritage in a better way and stay free. freedbs future did not seem to be kept free regarding the lastest developments, so I tried to steer against this as I felt it more important to stay free instead of getting fancy web 2.0 features. But unfortunately Joerg and Ari (the main doers behind freedb) disagreed with me and decided that they want to go another direction. I will refuse to comment their postings in public and I will thank both Ari anf Joerg for their work and their support.
Now being sick of how things turned out lately and I am not being able to run the project with the people in freedb left, I will stop this project in the forseeable future.

This has some other implications not yet addressed, as freedb is the CDDB used by Nero, so Ahead either have to see it carry on somehow, switch to the Gracenote CDDB (not directly compatible and has commercial licence fees), or be perhaps the only major CD/DVD software supplier with no CDDB support.

[scarecrow]

Uncomfortable, but I think "someone" will be eager to adopt the project, and there are also other 100% free + good alternatives, like MuzicBrainz.

[zver]

Yesterday i downloaded all data from freedb ftp-not bad,its only 350 mb
So im safe till next few months for sure
Somebody knows any way to use foobar with some other db so i can get info for audio files-not only cds of course

[scarecrow]

Originally Posted by zver

Yesterday i downloaded all data from freedb ftp-not bad,its only 350 mb
So im safe till next few months for sure
Somebody knows any way to use foobar with some other db so i can get info for audio files-not only cds of course

For the moment, and for all apps that support freeDB is using the somewhat obscure (and closed source, apparently) freeDB2:
You have to change the communication protocol to http, and instead of "freedb.freedb.org" putting in "freedb2.org". Dunno about Foobar (my main audio player is Amarok, which supports MusicBrainz natively), but it works ATM in EAC.