What Getting a Minidisc Player Working in 2026 Says About Disposable Infrastructure

NB: At some point I started using ChatGPT to help me navigate the technical issues around getting metadata for a ripped CD on Windows 98, so the entire chat might be a useful archive of that. (assuming open.ai is still around in 20 years). What’s more, I had it draft an original version of this post which I entirely re-wrote, but as I continue to play with the machine for writing, I think it is […]

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At this time, I'd like to thank #Gracenote for buying the #CDDB project and locking us all out. I was the opposite of thankful at that time, but that buyout gave us the #FreeDB fork, then GnuDB, and, later, #Musicbrainz.

@igwigg Ich habe früher immer fre:ac genutzt unter Windows. Ist #foss, beherrscht Lossless-Formate und hat #CDDB. Unter #Linux nutze ich #Asunder.

EDIT: Link
https://www.freac.org/

TIL that freedb hasn't existed since 2020. But gnudb does!
https://gnudb.org/
And it has the first disc! Marked up properly, unlike Gracenote, who lost all of the accented characters ...
https://gnudb.org/cd/df0e7b83

I'm still mad about the CDDB/Gracenote thing which happened almost 24 years ago ...

#freedb #gnudb #MusicBrainz #cddb

gnudb.org the Global Network Universal Database an alternativ CD database.

gnudb.org - Global Network Universal Database CD database

TIL: Es gibt sie noch die #cddb

https://gnudb.org

Danke Rene Mogensen - du hast mir echt Zeit und Ärger gespart!

gnudb.org the Global Network Universal Database an alternativ CD database.

gnudb.org - Global Network Universal Database CD database

踊る大捜査線のサントラのCDが出て来たんだがw CD-Rには「踊る大捜査線」とだけしか書いていない為、曲名までは解らない💦

…が、ぐぐって見ると、いくつかサントラCDが発売されているみたいで、曲数が合致して、曲名と曲がいくつか合致する事が判明した為、そのアルバムの曲名をそのまま入力する事が出来た。(^_^;)

さすがにサントラ盤にまでなると、CDDBには登録されていないようだ…💧

あと、気をつけないといけないのは、CDDBに登録されている情報が間違っていケースがある。適当なタイトルや誤字・脱字がある状態で登録しないで欲しいですよね〜💧

#CDDB

Is it somehow possible to use #CDDB (or #GnuDB / #FreeDB etc.) with #iTunes 2 on a #MacOS9 #ClassicMac today?
eg. by configuring a #WebOne #proxy (which I already use for browsing)?
Thank you!

#gnudb #cddb Anyone else had trouble with gnudb today?

I'll look into my code when I get home, but I seem to be getting a 500 http response (something like invalid syntax), followed by a 210 with empty results. It's happened with 2 different CDs, both pretty mainstream stuff and old enough to have entries. Weird.

Never seen this before, using asunder to lookup gnudb.org #cddb I had to submit my email address on this page to add my IP. https://gnudb.org/info.php
Gnudb Registration

Register email and IP for access to the Gnudb CD database

mochilonさんはTwitterを使っています: 「全部カタカナで入力してCDDBに登録する人 滅ぼす 方法 やり方 https://t.co/P8rTyxOdMB」 / Twitter

https://twitter.com/mochilon/status/1681131050599346176 最近新譜のCD買ってCDDB登録されてないこともあり #CDDB #fedibird

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“全部カタカナで入力してCDDBに登録する人 滅ぼす 方法 やり方”

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