On 31 March 2020, FreeDB shut down its service.
To continue to support older CD player software, this gateway will accept CDDB queries, look up the CDs on MusicBrainz, and reply in CDDB format.
The default CDplayer (cdman
) on IRIX 6.5 uses CDDB protocol v5 over HTTP.
The Options > FreeDB Setup menu lets you easily change the server and port.
Linux utility. Uses CDDB protocol v1. By default uses cddbp
but http
can
be used with the --cddb-servers
argument.
Usage:
cdrdao read-cddb --cddb-servers <host>:<port>:<path> mycd.toc