The web site freedb.org no longer resolves. I've had good luck using gnudb.org instead. Maybe consider this patch to make it easier for new users: diff --git a/abcde b/abcde index 7ea1f94..2dc3d77 100755 --- a/abcde +++ b/abcde @@ -3769,8 +3769,8 @@ post_encode () # CDDB # Currently three supported options ("musicbrainz", "cddb" for freedb.org and "cdtext") -CDDBMETHOD=musicbrainz -CDDBURL="http://freedb.freedb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi" +CDDBMETHOD=cddb,musicbrainz +CDDBURL="http://gnudb.gnudb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi" CDDBSUBMIT=freedb-submit@freedb.org CDDBPROTO=6 HELLOINFO="$(whoami)@$(hostname)" diff --git a/abcde.conf b/abcde.conf index 3c6272a..7dfb765 100644 --- a/abcde.conf +++ b/abcde.conf @@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ # "cdtext". Default is "musicbrainz", but all can be specified in a # comma delimited list to be tried sequentially. All the results will # be displayed ready for user choice. -#CDDBMETHOD=musicbrainz +#CDDBMETHOD=cddb,musicbrainz # If you wish to use a different CDDB server, edit this line. # If you just wanted to use a proxy server, just set your http_proxy # environment variable - wget will use it correctly. -#CDDBURL="http://freedb.freedb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi" +#CDDBURL="http://gnudb.gnudb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi" # The CDDB protocol level. # Right now 5 is latin1 output and 6 is UTF8 encoding.
The CDDB submit email should be modified to reflect the gnudb email address: CDDBSUBMIT=submit@gnudb.org Source: https://gnudb.org/index.php