[X4U] iTunes and FreeDB

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Jan 14, 2006, at 4:10 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?

Dunno. There are FreeDB clients though, right? So you could transfer  
the info from them to iTunes, or even from FreeDB web lookups (which  
have pretty well formatted data). This said, FreeDB is not much  
better than Gracenote in terms of data quality, and has far fewer CDs.

What type of music do you want to use FreeDB for?


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