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Re:FreeDB Is Shutting Down by NelsonMinar on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:08PM (#21902796)
How is MusicBrainz doing? The blog has recent updates, that's a good sign. https://musicbrainz.org/
Re:FreeDB Is Shutting Down by iruoy on Sunday December 29, 2019 @01:32AM (#21904433)
Pretty good I might say looking at all the comments here. The rare album I download is rarely on Musicbrainz though, while Discogs[0] always had it.

I'm sure it has something to do with the music genre these albums fall in (hardstyle), but as I said Discogs did have them all and I've heard the same from people with different tastes in music.

So I like to use TagScanner[1] to tag my albums. It searches both MusicBrainz and Discogs and apparently others as well.

P.S. I checked a single artist to see if Musicbrainz has caught up with Discogs yet a few months ago and the only things listed were a 5 year old album and some singles I believe. I just checked again and in the last 3 months some users added everything else.[2]

[0]: https://discogs.com [1]: https://xdlab.ru/en [2]: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5347c7dc-a8bd-4a05-8ae1-a17fb...

Re:FreeDB Is Shutting Down by Avamander on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:12PM (#21902818)
They're doing great. Quite a lot of edits flowing in, dataset growing and being fixed. It's a great volunteer effort. Could always use more developers and editors though.