Workaround for freedb in EAC needed

[thyristor44]

Hello
Has anyone found a replacement for freedb in Exact Audio Copy.
I have tried a few with v1.3 and v1.5 but nothing has worked for me yet. Greatly needed, can anyone help please.
Thanks
thyristor44

 

[axelcs]

Hi thyristor44,
the current version of eac uses Musicbrainz.
Reinstalled EAC this weekend. It works, but from 4 CDs, I ripped yesterday, Musicbrainz found only two...
Cheers, Axel

 

[thyristor44]

Hello Axel
I have tried both 1.3 and 1.5 and didn't find musicbrainz, what version are you using.

 

[thyristor44]

The latest EAC has musicbrainz during install but there is no way to look cd up in anything other freedb.

 

[axelcs]

You habe to reinstall eac and you must deselect metadata plugin... its written in the musicbrainz wiki

 

[rpi]

I'm not sure that this info will be helpful for EAC users but there is a mirror of the freedb.org - gnudb.org. In the Peppy Player I used freedb.org to get CD artists, album names and track names. Since 05.31.2020 freedb is not working anymore. To fix that in the player I replaced the freedb API endpoint:
self.freedb_server_url = 'http://freedb.freedb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi'
by gnudb endpoint:
self.gnudb_server_url = 'http://gnudb.gnudb.org:80/~cddb/cddb.cgi'
After this change everything works the same way as with freedb. Let's hope that gnudb will stay online for a long time 🙂

 

[thyristor44]

You habe to reinstall eac and you must deselect metadata plugin... its written in the musicbrainz wiki

I tried a fresh install as you said but still no sign of musicbrainz. Seems stuck on freedb.

 

[thyristor44]

I'm not sure that this info will be helpful for EAC users but there is a mirror of the freedb.org - gnudb.org. In the Peppy Player I used freedb.org to get CD artists, album names and track names. Since 05.31.2020 freedb is not working anymore. To fix that in the player I replaced the freedb API endpoint:
self.freedb_server_url = 'http://freedb.freedb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi'
by gnudb endpoint:
self.gnudb_server_url = 'http://gnudb.gnudb.org:80/~cddb/cddb.cgi'
After this change everything works the same way as with freedb. Let's hope that gnudb will stay online for a long time 🙂

Tried this but get server error.

 

[rpi]

What did you try? The freedb plugin for EAC should be updated to use the mirror site. I don't know who is developing that plugin though. If you know you can ask them to do that.

 

[thyristor44]

I have changed freedb server to 'http://gnudb.gnudb.org:80/~cddb/cddb.cgi' but get error server error.
😡

 

[rpi]

It looks like it should work in EAC:
How do I get CDDB to work with EAC now? | [H]ard|Forum
Try with proxy. Though I don't use it in my case.

 

[soundcheck]

Hi.

I replaced freedb with gnudb support on puddletag in June.

It seems to work without issues.


Enjoy.

 

[sgrossklass]

The latest EAC has musicbrainz during install but there is no way to look cd up in anything other freedb.

F12 / Metadata Options --> Selected Metadata provider

 

[thyristor44]

It looks like it should work in EAC:
How do I get CDDB to work with EAC now? | [H]ard|Forum
Try with proxy. Though I don't use it in my case.

Thanks rpi, that did the job. The post by Format_C: your link directed me to, said use proxy in his example and that worked fine. No album art but that is lot easier that writing out the name of each track.
Thanks again and to all who helped.

 

[FabioSG]

Windows users:
edit (w/ administrator rights) file
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
insert this line:
92.246.24.225 freedb.freedb.org

... and now my old EAC is working with new gnudb.gnudb.org(=IP 92.246.24.225) address