Reminder: freedb.org (CDDB) has shut down

[Christian Weisgerber]

I would like to remind everybody that the freedb.org compact disc
track database has shut down.  Any program funcionality that tries
to fetch from or submit data to it is broken now.  This will mostly
concern CD rippers and media players.

A mostly drop-in compatible alternative is available at gnudb.org.
https://www.gnudb.org/

I expect a number of FreeBSD ports to be affected by this.  If you
are the maintainer of a port that has CDDB functionality, please
fix it by switching the default server over to gnudb.org.


(On OpenBSD I extracted all ports and grepped over the sources, which
revealed some 35 affected ports.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=159346807907595&w=2
I don't have the resources to do this on FreeBSD.)

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de