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Make iTunes use a better music database than CDDBMake iTunes use a better music database than CDDB
Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on March 17, 2008 - 6:43am
Searched words:
Make iTunes database find more tracks more cds than CDDB
itunes get cd track names plugin better than CDDB
FreeDB
Simple solution from
http://hybridvigor.blogspot.com/2006/06/dont-support-riaa-use-freedb-instead.html
That page also go over why CDDB is evil, and you should never contribute your labor (typing in songs) to the freeloading commercial in-bed-with-the-RIAA company.
I didn't know all that, I just knew it stopped finding lots of tracks and CDs it ought to be able to find!
Use http://www.freeDB.org instead, and here's how to do so with iTunes with a very simple hack:
On your Mac:
sudo vi /etc/hosts
Add:
64.71.163.204 cddb.cddb.org
Not yet tested.
Comments
it worked very well for
it worked very well for itunes on windows xp
(edit C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)
thx
Wow, very nice. I have been
Wow, very nice. I have been going crazy trying to find some certain songs that I thought for sure it would pick up for me. Musictoys that cost me a pretty penny should work as advertised!
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