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Discogs is also very broad with its LP history and has become the reference model for many that the Musicbrainz project is just too academic, perfectionist and bureaucratic on the spot.

The new home for the database is now the free GNUDB accessed by many rippers and taggers. Even Roon hosts there (but probably with less joy for the customers and without metadata service). This order almost gives the death knell, whereas Amazon still seems to me to be the most alive. Musicbrainz, AllMusic, LastFM, Discogs or Amazon were the new hopefuls. Gracenote changed the license terms and whenever everyone thought only about the money it crunched in the organization. After a sale to the long-defunct Hi-Fi brand Escient and renaming to “Gracenote”, freeDB became more popular. It all started in 1998 when the company CDDB (Compact Disc Database) was founded. After a long time of operation, Magix stopped the operation of the free CD database freedb.
