CDDB

Database of CD track listings, started by Ti Kan around 1993 and filled by users who believed it would stay free. It was sold in 1998, renamed Gracenote in 2000 and moved to proprietary terms, which provoked the freedb fork and MusicBrainz.

Explore it ↗ gracenote.com

Part of the thread Who owns what the crowd built? poses

alternative to

• MusicBrainz project 2000 [src]

created by

• Ti Kan person b. 1963 [src]

responses

• MusicBrainz project 2000 [src]

[?] Unconfirmed

• start: Wikipedia says late 1993; the name first appears in xmcd 1.1, released 25 February 1994.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4465222