I made a torrent:

  magnet:?xt=urn:btih:96208ba12ca7ffdac5b5adccf1a41e484de94f4a&dn=freedb&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.tiny-vps.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrentyorg.pl%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969%2Fannounce

This includes all the files from your mirror except for the older database backups and the "latest" directory (which is just the extracted version of cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz).

Thank you for making this, I will seed the torrent for a couple of weeks or until it looks like nobody is downloading it anymore.

4gb for the whole database (compressed).

It seems like so little for artists/tracknames of every piece of music ever published (to CD), because it would take 0.1% of my disk space, while knowing it's so much data.

It's less than 1GB; the four large archives you see that are each nine-hundred-and-change megs are dated snapshots. Just pull the latest from here (current as of 12/03/2019): http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-complete-20191203.ta...

Thanks! It's 948Mb.

Some more details about the files for future reference. (Sizes listed below are measured in bytes.)

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freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2: bzip2 compressed data

    curl -I http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:42:04 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
    Last-Modified: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:14:50 GMT
    ETag: "542dff-3b460112-8295de80"
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 994443538
    Content-Type: application/x-tar

SIZE (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = 994443538

SHA256 (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = e005ec2ee3f3dabf2f5c45b49273358fcb796aae946cdfeeb31cd2e555b86978

MD5 (freedb-complete-20191203.tar.bz2) = 6f8be385155242e11bae5d5acb557b5d

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cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, was "cddbd-1.5.2.tar", last modified: Sat Jul 1 17:47:47 2006, max compression, from Unix, original size 675840

    curl -I http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:45:17 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
    Last-Modified: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:06:55 GMT
    ETag: "20bb2f-2bef1-a6738dc0"
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 179953
    Content-Type: application/x-tar
    Content-Encoding: x-gzip

SIZE (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = 179953

SHA256 (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = bec016250b06fa7aed368ca163489b72cebc93c1ae804e5f342cea3c64f5e4e4

MD5 (cddbd-1.5.2.tar.gz) = 2f0e6a0ec6a4157a5c3874fca10b33ce

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freedb-proto5-update: Perl script text executable

    curl -I http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/freedb-proto5-update

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:47:34 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux)
    Last-Modified: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:05:29 GMT
    ETag: "20bbac-1480-f00ce040"
    Accept-Ranges: bytes
    Content-Length: 5248
    Content-Type: text/plain

SIZE (freedb-proto5-update) = 5248

SHA256 (freedb-proto5-update) = 4cc1f7b7909c845c55fe1e8ea4b4844e45d2645d7ddec74300517378c2558081

MD5 (freedb-proto5-update) = 0ec2fb029e9aeae76ddf25daea8ddd59

Would it be too much trouble to ask to put these in the Internet Archive as items while you’re at it?

Good idea. I haven't uploaded to IA before, but it looks like I was able to do it. I put the software metadata attribute on the files, but other than that I wasn't sure of what other metadata to add if any.

The files that were mentioned above should now be available at https://archive.org/details/freedb

After uploading the files I noticed that there were some results on IA already for FreeDB, and one of the results is even a user named freedb which I guess might be an official account of the FreeDB people.