FreeDB Is Shutting Down

Re:FreeDB Is Shutting Down by spondyl on Saturday December 28, 2019 @09:40PM (#21903540)

As a slightly unrelated note, how do these sort of databases actually get bootstrapped?

I imagine as you get up and running, you'd end up with industry contacts, access to industry data sources and so on but I'd be interested to know how these sorts of things get started?

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Re:FreeDB Is Shutting Down by layoutIfNeeded on Saturday December 28, 2019 @10:18PM (#21903708)

Ummm... no industry contacts. It’s just a bunch of people who are anal about music.

It has always been like that in the Web 1.0 days: just a bunch of people being anal about something.

And it worked beautifully.

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Re:FreeDB Is Shutting Down by vxNsr on Sunday December 29, 2019 @07:52AM (#21905635)

Web 1.0: People anal about something and come together to make it better

Web 2.0: People anal about their egos and snipe and attack each other until everyone is the same level of sad and lonely.

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Re:FreeDB Is Shutting Down by warp on Sunday December 29, 2019 @06:09AM (#21905320)

When I was a developer on MusicBrainz (2010-2013) we didn't have access to any industry data sources. Some of our customers did though, and wanted to feed that back into the MusicBrainz database. When we took a look at that data, it turned out that it was pretty messy, and couldn't be used directly. We discussed storing that data separately, and building a tool so users could easily import from it -- so it could be verified and cleaned up by a human before becoming part of the database. I don't remember if that ever got built.

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