[X4U] iTunes and FreeDB

[DZ-Jay]

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.