July database archives released

Hello fdb-announce list-members,

The July release of the freedb database archives was released a few
days ago.
The list of mirrors can be found here:
http://www.freedb.org/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=12

Please do not re-download the whole database, if you already have an
old complete database archive. All complete database archive releases
from 21st of Juli 2001 or newer can be updated using the
update-archives. Users of the Unix format database archives can simply
extract the update-files over the existing database, while users of
the Windows database archives can use the freedb-updater to update
their archives. If you need more than one update-file, please make
sure, that you apply them in the correct order (i.e. oldest first,
newest last).

According to the results of the poll on our website, which showed a
big interest in rar compressed archives, the freedb-complete files
(Unix-format archives) are now also available as .tar.rar. While
tar.rar might seem like an odd combination, it yields the best
compression results. .rar alone would be bigger than the .tar.bz2
archive.

In addition to the database archives, the new version 0.3 of
the freedb updater was released. It should be faster now, thanks to
some optimizations made by John Fidel. Additionally the updater shows
more detailed progress information now and comes with the new version
of the Spoon Installer.

Best regards, Joerg