On Jan 14, 2006, at 10:04, Kirk McElhearn wrote: > On Jan 14, 2006, at 3:15 PM, DZ-Jay wrote: > >> Does anybody know how to force iTunes to use FreeDB instead of CDDB? >> I tried setting Gracenote's hosts in the /etc/hosts file pointing to >> FreeDB's IP addresses, but that doesn't seem to work. > > You can't. Gracenote requires that applications using the CDDB use > _only_ that database... I know I *can't* configure it that way, but there should be a way to intercept the DNS queries or redirect the host name to a different IP. Perhaps setting up some sort of proxy? dZ.