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I happen to be an old fuddy duddy who still rips CD's (Thanks for not laughing out loud), when I went from Ubuntu 19. something to Ubuntu 20.04 both Ripper X and Asunder are unable to connect to the CD database and download any pertinent information. As best as I can determine none of the config settings are any different. I'm pretty sure the problem does not reside in the config settings. Internet connection works for every other program the way it should. Any suggestions on how I can get things back to normal? Thanks in advance!

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This happened because of FreeDB CDDB downing:

freedb.org and its services was scheduled to be shut down on March 31 of 2020. As of May 28, 2020 the site was still operational.
On the 13th of June 2020 it was observed that the URL used for lookups, freedb.freedb.org, no longer resolved to a host name and as a result the service no longer appears to operate.

You have to try switching Asunder to GNUDB:

  1. Open Asunder
  2. Select Preferences
  3. Navigate to Advanced tab
  4. In CDDB area change server from freedb.freedb.org to gnudb.gnudb.org
  5. Retry CDDB Lookup with Audio CD inserted

For RipperX do the following to switch it to other CDDB site:

  1. Open RipperX
  2. Click Config
  3. Navigate to CDDB tab
  4. In CDDB Configuration are change URL from freedb.freedb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi to freedb.dbpoweramp.com/~cddb/cddb.cgi
  5. Retry CDDB retrieval with Audio CD inserted.

I have checked both above servers with CD disc dated 1994.


Notes: there is 3rd alternative with port 80 - http://us.cddb.com/~cddb/cddb.cgi.

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  • Just a note as of May 2021 gnudb.gnudb.org works over port 8880, which I believe used to be 8080 but changed at some point.
    – Mattygabe
    May 5, 2021 at 13:23
  • As of February 2022 the ripperX alternative site is working just fine
    – Brian
    Feb 8, 2022 at 0:52
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For asunder look in your home directory for a hidden .config folder. Open that and edit the file asunder with a text editor to replace "cddb" with "gnudb.gnudb.org".

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What worked for me with asunder is to also specify the proxy for gnudb as proxy.gnudb.org on port 3128.

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