64.71.163.204 cddb.cddb.orgYou'll have to edit the file as root or sudo edit it. Every application that tries to access cddb.cddb.org will instead load the above IP number, which is actually freedb.org.
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If you're like me and don't like cddb, or just have a CD that is listed in freedb and not cddb, just add this line to your /etc/hosts file to use freedb with itunes (and everything else that tries to use cddb.cddb.org):
64.71.163.204 cddb.cddb.orgYou'll have to edit the file as root or sudo edit it. Every application that tries to access cddb.cddb.org will instead load the above IP number, which is actually freedb.org.
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Does this actually work?
I thought that OS X only used /etc/hosts in single user mode, and one had to use Netinfo for this sort of thing.
Easily in Jaguar, tougher in others...
See this hint...
-rob.
it does for me in jaguar
i've never used any version of os x besides jaguar.. if i knew /etc/hosts didn't work in prior versions, i would've mentioned something when i submitted the tip.. sorry about that :|
Use a local mirror of the FreeDB server
http://freedb.org/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=9
does this work?
When I looked into this a while back I thought that I learned that iTunes uses some sort of level two protocol that only gracenote can use, and that the freecddb did not support.
Sean McBride's page gives details, but it looks like for iTunes you are out of luck. Any success you have is an illusion - you are probably still accessing the Gracenote serves via the CDDB2 protocol - which is what happened to me for a while after I tricked out my hosts files in 9 and tried to do so in X.
http://www.cam.org/~cwatson/freedb/freedb.html
OK, but why?
Not meant to flame at all, but . . . what's the point of this? The only benefit of FreeDB that I'm aware of is political -- it's 'free."
FreeDB population
I have found that the FreeDB has a much higher population of non-mainstream music listings than gracenote/cddb. The reason I found this article today is because the CD I got last night, K. K. Null & Disc (nullsonic), is in the FreeDB and not the gracenote/cddb.
OK, but why?
(a) CDDB used to be a freely-available, public service that anyone could use and update. Then the service's operator stole the content and started suing people who were using it. FreeDB operates under a license that makes that impossible. |
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