FreeDB Is Shutting Down

Re:FreeDB Is Shutting Down by Lammy on Saturday December 28, 2019 @09:34PM (#21903512)

This seems needlessly hostile for something that affects you so little if you don't have a use for it. I have a huge digital (in the FLAC/MP3 sense) music library ripped almost exclusively from my own physical CD collection, and FreeDB has been an absolutely enormous boon to me over the years. CDs may be "ancient" technology these days, but they sound better than Spotify/YouTube/Apple, have effectively zero* DRM, can be resold, and I will continue buying them as long as I'm able. This is a sad day :(

[*] Assuming they care about putting the "CDDA" logo on their product, but luckily those non-standard outliers—Sony rootkit included—mostly came and went with the the 2000s.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:FreeDB Is Shutting Down by toyg on Sunday December 29, 2019 @08:27AM (#21905768)

I think you missed the dry humour in the comment. “Physical DRM-free uncompressed audio” is a barb at the post-CD generation of industry-mandated contraptions, which lowered sound quality and convenience, and the “obsolete” quip is a parody of sneering contemporary tech-types.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:FreeDB Is Shutting Down by Lammy on Sunday December 29, 2019 @08:46AM (#21905852)

Don’t worry, I’m not _that_ sarcasm-blind. Doesn’t change the feeling that it’s overly hostile to say the same dismissive industry contrapoint but hidden behind “haha it’s funny because I’m saying the opposite of what I actually believe”.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:FreeDB Is Shutting Down by ianlevesque on Sunday December 29, 2019 @09:19AM (#21905964)

Yeah HN takes itself way too seriously.

[ Parent | on HN ]