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Comment by hamiltont | Hacker News Reader

Disclaimer: I know nothing about what led to this situation

Found it a bit sad to see this notice followed by a recent news headline saying the project was guaranteed to continue:

  Continuation of the free database guaranteed

  With the acquisition of the www.freedb.org domain
  MAGIX also takes on all duties regarding the 
  worldwide freedb community

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That acquisition was the reason why I made a fork of the freedb database, I'm actually pretty happy with how long they held out.

I would encourage everybody to download the software:

http://www.freedb.org/en/download__server_software.4.html

And the db:

http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/

It would be good to have multiple copies floating around.

4gb for the whole database (compressed).

It seems like so little for artists/tracknames of every piece of music ever published (to CD), because it would take 0.1% of my disk space, while knowing it's so much data.

It's less than 1GB; the four large archives you see that are each nine-hundred-and-change megs are dated snapshots. Just pull the latest from here (current as of 12/03/2019): http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-complete-20191203.ta...

Thanks! It's 948Mb.

Some more details about the files for future reference. (Sizes listed below are measured in bytes.)

freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data

    curl -I http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:42:04 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
    Last-Modified: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:14:50 GMT
    ETag: "542dff-3b460112-8295de80"
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 994443538
    Content-Type: application/x-tar

SIZE (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = 994443538

SHA256 (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = e005ec2ee3f3dabf2f5c45b49273358fcb796aae946cdfeeb31cd2e555b86978

MD5 (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = 6f8be385155242e11bae5d5acb557b5d

cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, was "cddbd-1.5.2.tar", last modified: Sat Jul 1 17:47:47 2006, max compression, from Unix, original size 675840

    curl -I http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:45:17 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
    Last-Modified: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:06:55 GMT
    ETag: "20bb2f-2bef1-a6738dc0"
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 179953
    Content-Type: application/x-tar
    Content-Encoding: x-gzip

SIZE (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = 179953

SHA256 (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = bec016250b06fa7aed368ca163489b72cebc93c1ae804e5f342cea3c64f5e4e4

MD5 (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = 2f0e6a0ec6a4157a5c3874fca10b33ce

freedb-proto5-update: Perl script text executable

    curl -I http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-proto5-update

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:47:34 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
    Last-Modified: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:05:29 GMT
    ETag: "20bbac-1480-f00ce040"
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 5248
    Content-Type: text/plain

SIZE (freedb-proto5-update) = 5248

SHA256 (freedb-proto5-update) = 4cc1f7b7909c845c55fe1e8ea4b4844e45d2645d7ddec74300517378c2558081

MD5 (freedb-proto5-update) = 0ec2fb029e9aeae76ddf25daea8ddd59

Would it be too much trouble to ask to put these in the Internet Archive as items while you’re at it?

Good idea. I haven't uploaded to IA before, but it looks like I was able to do it. I put the software metadata attribute on the files, but other than that I wasn't sure of what other metadata to add if any.

The files that were mentioned above should now be available at https://archive.org/details/freedb

After uploading the files I noticed that there were some results on IA already for FreeDB, and one of the results is even a user named freedb which I guess might be an official account of the FreeDB people.

I made a torrent:

  magnet:?xt=urn:btih:96208ba12ca7ffdac5b5adccf1a41e484de94f4a&dn=freedb&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrentyorg.pl%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969%2Fannounce

This includes all the files from your mirror except for the older database backups and the "latest" directory (which is just the extracted version of cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz).

Thank you for making this, I will seed the torrent for a couple of weeks or until it looks like nobody is downloading it anymore.

That headline is on web.archive.org as far back as 2014 (I didn't check earlier), so 'recent' may be a bit of a misnomer here.

It's been there since 2006:

https://web.archive.org/web/20061011154534/http://www.freedb...

https://web.archive.org/web/20070303052016/http://www.freedb...

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