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#119 Need Musicbrainz Support as FREEDB is going away 3/31/2020

Solbu — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 07:24:54 -0000

Ahh, yes. I changed that as it is a simple change. Personally I am satisfied with using GnuDB as replacement.

Users config files still need to change that manually for it to work thou, as it will not override existing user configs.

#119 Need Musicbrainz Support as FREEDB is going away 3/31/2020

Andrew Clayton — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 02:12:23 -0000

I was simply referring to the fact that the switch to gnudb.org had been made...

#119 Need Musicbrainz Support as FREEDB is going away 3/31/2020

Solbu — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:54:55 -0000

I am actually not a programmer, so I can't do anything about it.
I can do small changes, like changing URLs, fixing typos and tweaking the autotools code.

If someone want Musicbrainz support, someone else have to do the job and send me a patch or merge request.
Then I will test and merge it if it works.

#119 Need Musicbrainz Support as FREEDB is going away 3/31/2020

MB McFarland — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:49:26 -0000

OK, so I see this change has already been made in the code...<<

So does this mean that Grip will use the old style discdb to get the traditional lookup done with gnudb, and if that fails it will try to lookup in Musicbrainz using the (new style) Musicbrainz DiscID ?

I see a post by Stephan Wurm on May 20, 2020 about Musicbrainz, but nothing else saying that any Musicbrainz compatible code was actually installed. There may be old code in Grip from when Musicbrainz offered a FreeDB style lookup, but that was discontinued years ago, they prefer to use their own DiscID, which is accurate, compared to the old FreeDB style disd id, so that may be old old code accessing a discontinued MB API.

#119 Need Musicbrainz Support as FREEDB is going away 3/31/2020

Andrew Clayton — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 01:51:04 -0000

OK, so I see this change has already been made in the code...

#119 Need Musicbrainz Support as FREEDB is going away 3/31/2020

Andrew Clayton — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 01:45:00 -0000

Yes, using gnudb.gnudb.org as the DB server seems to work.

#119 Need Musicbrainz Support as FREEDB is going away 3/31/2020

Solbu — Tue, 26 May 2020 17:12:57 -0000

There is also gnudb.org, which also use the discdb. So there could also be beneficial to keep the existing support, and add the Musicbrainz support as an addition, maybe even as the default. But then again, I'm not the one who are doing the job. :-)

#119 Need Musicbrainz Support as FREEDB is going away 3/31/2020

Solbu — Tue, 26 May 2020 16:36:32 -0000

Sorry for the long delay.
This sounds interesting. :-)

Feel free to send a patch, and I will test it.

Quriously, the freedb is not shutdown yet. It was supposed to shutdown almost 2 months ago.

#119 Need Musicbrainz Support as FREEDB is going away 3/31/2020

Stephan Wurm — Wed, 20 May 2020 17:10:20 -0000

Hello, I am currently playing around with replacement of FREEDB by MB5.

I followed the development examples from musicbrainz.org and Grip is yet able to get artist, album title, album year, tracks and track artists from the MusicBrainz server.
In case of multiple hits for the same DiscID, the alternatives can be selected by the known buttons.

But this also breaks some known behavior:
1. The well known discdb is not compatible any longer
2. The data has always to be fetched from the MusicBrainz server
3. Submission is (not yet) possible
4. The old 64 bit discid is replaced by a MusicBrainz DiscID (see https://github.com/metabrainz/libdiscid)
5. FreeDB configuration is useless

If you are interested in my work, I can share it as soon as I have done some "cleanup" ;-)

#119 Need Musicbrainz Support as FREEDB is going away 3/31/2020

Solbu — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 08:50:51 -0000

I am aware of it. Unfortunately I cannot do anything about it myself, as I don't know programming. (Yes, really).
Two Gentoo developers have stepted up and have modernized much of the code. I hope they can help with this.

MusicBrainz had a freedb compatible gateway running saicne about 2007, which they shut down last year…