Molti software utilizzano questo immenso database per completare automaticamente la track-list dei CD.
Bene, pare che stia per scomparire a causa di separazioni interne allo staff di sviluppo.

http://www.freedb.org/

freedb is not able to operate without Joerg and Ari. There are other - hopefully free - projects that will take over freedbs heritage in a better way and stay free. freedbs future did not seem to be kept free regarding the lastest developments, so I tried to steer against this as I felt it more important to stay free instead of getting fancy web 2.0 features. But unfortunately Joerg and Ari (the main doers behind freedb) disagreed with me and decided that they want to go another direction. I will refuse to comment their postings in public and I will thank both Ari anf Joerg for their work and their support.

Now being sick of how things turned out lately and I am not being able to run the project with the people in freedb left, I will stop this project in the forseeable future.
Qui danno qualche notizia in più e parlano di un fantomatico freedb2
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/03/0055211

"Freedb, the free music database used by tons of CD ripping software, has been shut down due to a disagreement among its developers. One of its developers used a data dump from the original freedb.org and is providing the service at freedb2.org, though, and will be adding features and posting them at his site as they become available. Unfortunately, a database dump or source code for freedb2.org is yet nowhere to be found."