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==Article title==
If the canonical form of the name is "freedb" (all lower-case, as given in the first line of this article and at the official website), why is this article titled "FreeDB"? - [[User:Dcljr|dcljr]] <small>([[User talk:Dcljr|talk]])</small> 04:15, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

:Moved article and added [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)|technical restrictions]] note. [[User:Jareha|jareha]] 07:16, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

==CD tracks==
Is there information on the cd tracks themselves that allow media players or home cd players to identify them? <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/66.169.216.241|66.169.216.241]] ([[User talk:66.169.216.241#top|talk]]) 11:27, 10 September 2005</small>

:No, there isn't. (Added IP signature above.) [[User:Jareha|jareha]] 07:16, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Well, actually, if a cd is encoded with cdtext information and the player is capable of reading it (and the optical drive is capable of retrieving the cdtext information and passing it to the software player...) then the track information could be read. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/66.176.71.117|66.176.71.117]] ([[User talk:66.176.71.117#top|talk]]) 11:47, 4 March 2006</small>

==Ambiguity?==

"freedb is used primarily by media player"
is that meant to be media players, as in the category of things, or media player as in Windows Media Player? <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/130.88.199.179|130.88.199.179]] ([[User talk:130.88.199.179#top|talk]]) 14:51, 17 January 2007</small>

== References ==

19-Nov-2006:   These links seem to be dead.   Is anything up with freedb.org?? 19:24, 19 November 2006 216.231.36.36 <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/70.111.218.254|70.111.218.254]] ([[User talk:70.111.218.254#top|talk]]) 11:02, 23 November 2006</small>
: {{Fixed}}  …at least until the next time a link goes [[WP:404]]. —[[User:ShelleyAdams|Shelley V. Adams]] ‹<small style="display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;font-size:70%;line-height:1em;">[[User talk:ShelleyAdams|blame]]<br/>[[Special:Contributions/ShelleyAdams|credit]]</small>› 03:20, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

== 2020 shutdown ==

As per 2020-01-04, freedb.org has a special header reading:
:'''''Urgent notice'''''
:''freedb.org and its services will be shut down on March 31st of 2020.''
I can’t quite find further information on that website, yet I wonder what this implies concerning the CDDB-freedb as well as the bridging to MusicBrainz. Independently, an announcement that grave ought to be noted in the article introduction. -- [[User:Gohnarch|Gohnarch]]<sup>[[User talk:Gohnarch|░]]</sup> 21:38, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

::"On the 13th of June 2020 it was observed that the URL used for lookups, freedb.freedb.org, no longer resolved to a host name and as a result the service no longer appears to operate." What is the source and cause? [[Special:Contributions/79.139.51.27|79.139.51.27]] ([[User talk:79.139.51.27|talk]]) 18:02, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

:Is this service still used to any significant extent? Adding new records to the database is no longer possible. What service(s) have succeeded it? [[User:2fort5r|2fort5r]] ([[User talk:2fort5r|talk]]) 07:38, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
::Additionally, is it possible to correct freedb entries? I've noticed several CD entries containing errors. [[User:2fort5r|2fort5r]] ([[User talk:2fort5r|talk]]) 12:26, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Freedb is dead.  Long live GNUdb? There is a new GNU service, called gnudb.org that is doing the same thing that freedb did.  Maybe the article called "freedb" should be renamed or somehow include a section on gnudb.org?  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/173.26.222.199|173.26.222.199]] ([[User talk:173.26.222.199#top|talk]]) 00:59, 31 July 2020 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->