[slinkelist] CDDB Server Error

[Jay Pfaffman]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 09:27:09 -0500, "Dave Kolb" <davekolb@email.msn.com> said:

> Why? [does CDDB limit lookups to 200 per day]

Here's the answer from my soon-to-be-posted unofficial Slinkelist FAQ.

Q8: CDDB lookups return "CDDB Server Error. Request limit exceeded on
all available servers." What gives?

 Jay Pfaffman <pfaffman@relax.com>: CDDB limits how many lookups you
    can do in a 24 hour period to keep people from harvesting their
    database.  They pretty much have the market cornered and they
    don't want to give that up.  Try again tomorrow.  If your ISP has
    a proxy server you might reconfigure CDJ to use it to get another
    200 today.

    Historical note: When CDDB was bought by Escient and started
    putting restrictions (must put CDDB icon up when doing lookups?)
    on its use, there was an outcry by some claiming that it was
    unfair for CDDB to put these restrictions on stuff which they
    didn't create in the first place.  http://www.freedb.org/ is a
    free CDDB clone.  You can point CDJ to freedb.freedb.org to use
    it.  It currently has about 143,000 entries; CDDB has > 500,000
    entries.


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