Text 22093, 74 rader
Skriven 2006-10-06 05:50:00 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 22070 av Gerald Miller (1:342/512)
Ärende: freedb.org
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 GM> I hope you don't mind, but I _think_ you are the most appropriate
 GM> person to ask...

thanks... i guess i don't mind :)

 GM> I set up and am using Mp3Tag to identify and index my music files. 
 GM> I also set up The Internet CD Database Server Archive (what a
 GM> horrendously large database to set up).

yes, there's a lot of music and cd compilations out there...

 GM> I then set up the Total Commander FTP client so I could log into
 GM> the Manitoba server to get the monthly updates for the database: 

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 GM> The problem that I am encountering is that I'm unable to connect to
 GM> this server -- it worked last month when I downloaded the full
 GM> database. 

 i'm guessing you are talking about the ca.freedb.org server, right?


 GM> When I went to http://www.freedb.org to look for a listing of the
 GM> mirror sites, 1) it looks totally different than what I recall the
 GM> last time I logged on, 2) the only mirror I could find was one for
 GM> Germany, and 3) the update file archive is for last month.

 GM> Would you have any explanation as to why this is happening to me? 

nothing other than this posted right on the front page...

===== http://www.freedb.org/ =====

NEWS

==============================

MAGIX acquires www.freedb.org
Continuation of the free database guaranteed

With the acquisition of the www.freedb.org domain MAGIX also takes on all
duties regarding the worldwide freedb community:

  * the entire freedb service has been running since the middle 
    of September on the MAGIX servers (including the FTP download 
    function of the open source database and archive)

  * this service will remain free and without restriction as well 
    as remain freely available to all developers and users 
    independent of the corresponding (non)commercial utilisation

  * all updates to the database will also continue to be regularly 
    and freely available

  * the licence for the data and the corresponding server or service 
    software will remain under GPL 

Furthermore, MAGIX runs the mirror server and hosts the website as well as the
new forum. This secures a basis for the prosperity of freedb and its main aim:
the data collected by the users for the users will be kept freely available in
the future - guaranteed. MAGIX will add its know-how to help with the continued
development of the service according to the GPL. Every developer from the
present community is invited to continue to actively contribute to the
successful continuity of freedb.

===== end =====

according to the above, it looks like there is only one mirror server now... as
for an updated file, it looks like they may be in "transitioning mode" still...

)\/(ark

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