CD Info Gateway
freedb.org announced its services would shutdown entirely on 2020-03-31. Many legacy software applications have FreeDB/CDDB support built-in for fetching CD metadata such as artist, title, and track names. To keep these apps functioning in their fully glory, this is meant as a drop-in replacement for FreeDB/CDDB.
This application does not use the original CDDB database, but fetches disc information from MusicBrainz which has an open API and excellent up-to-date disc metadata.
Usage
HTTP Access
Hostname | cddb.retrobridge.org |
Ports | 80 , 8880 |
Path | /~cddb/cddb.cgi |
Full URLs for access over HTTP
http://cddb.retrobridge.org:80/~cddb/cddb.cgi
http://cddb.retrobridge.org:8880/~cddb/cddb.cgi
CDDBP Access
Hostname | cddb.retrobridge.org |
Port | 888 |
Tested Applications
SGI CDplayer, IRIX 6.5.30
Working!
The IRIX CDplayer lets you set the CDDB server host and port.
It has the /~cddb/cddb.cgi
path hardcoded in the application.
It does not send the HTTP host
header, so virtual hosts will
not work with this CD player.
cdrdao v1.2.4
Working!
This is a CLI app for Linux. It lets you use HTTP, CDDBP, set hosts, ports, paths, everything you need. So it's easy to get going.
Via HTTP
cdrdao read-cddb --cddb-servers cddb.retrobridge.org:8880:/~cddb/cddb.cgi -v 3 disc.toc
Via CDDBP
cdrdao read-cddb --cddb-servers cddb.retrobridge.org:888 -v 3 disc.toc
Exact Audio Copy 0.99
Lets you set the full HTTP URL so it's easy to configure.
- EAC > freeDB / Database Options
VLC 1.1.9
Not working. This doesn't seem to ever fetch metadata, even from the live FreeDB servers.
This was the last version to work on Windows 2000.
- Tools > Preferences
- Under Show settings select All.
- Input / Codecs > Access modules > Audio CD