Re: freedb

I also have both Exact Audio Copy and Easy Audio Copy.  I paid the extra to get the GD3 db with Exact Audio Copy but the GD3 db also came with my Easy Audio Copy.  That is one of the reasons the cost was $25 (when I signed up for it) was to cover the cost of the GD3 db.  
Honestly, I haven't ripped many CDs for quite a while so I don't know if it still works.  With Easy Audio Copy, I could never tell where the info was coming from, but I guessed it was from GD3.
Kit Kimes Oswego, IL.

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    On Monday, March 2, 2020, 11:18:55 AM CST, Mark Fishman [email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:  
 
     


Recent versions of EAC have included a plugin for GD3 ("get digital data, a generation 3 database", or some such nonsense), which works extremely well.. Yes, there's a fee if you use it past the initial ten free lookups, but it's a quite reasonable fee: US$7.99 for a personal license -- one person, any computer, your whole lifetime. (Unlike the Gracenote CDDB, it's not an annual subscription tied to a single device.)
I am also a registered user of Andre's Easy Audio Copy, yet I often use EAC instead because of the GD3 lookup. It finds cover art and track info when EasyAC cannot.
-- Mark F.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:00 AM [email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]> wrote:

     
papawayne23-FFYn/[email protected]:
> Is there a new database we can use as Freedb is shutting down?

Even when it was still around, freedb could not hold a candle to
Discogs and MusicBrainz. If I recall correctly the latter also allows
lookups based on Disc-ID.

--Martin

   


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