[abcde] It's time to give Gracenote(tm) CDDB(tm) the finger

[Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>]

You may have noticed recently that instead of getting track titles for
that CD you just plopped in the drive, you get something like this:

DISCID=15106e19
DTITLE=MSG: http://www.cddb.com/lic/foobarbaz / http://www.cddb.com/lic/foob
TTITLE0=MSG: Your CD player application is either not licensed to use the
TTITLE1=MSG: Gracenote(tm) CDDB(tm) service or its license has expired.
TTITLE2=MSG: If you are unsure what this means, please see our web site
TTITLE3=MSG: at http://www.cddb.com/lic/foobarbaz.
TTITLE4=MSG: If you are a developer and feel you have received this
TTITLE5=MSG: message in error or wish to get your application licensed,
TTITLE6=MSG: please contact support for assistance.
TTITLE7=MSG:
TTITLE8=MSG:
TTITLE9=MSG:

Suboptimal at best. I recommend that everyone start using FreeDB as soon
as possible. You can tell abcde to use FreeDB by putting this in your
abcde.conf:

CDDBURL=http://freedb.freedb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi

I'll make this the default in the next release as well.
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
"* We used to try various strange things. Let's not."
	-- seen in linux/fs/buffer.c

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