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in 2001, based on the last freely licensed version of CDDB. In March 2001, Gracenote banned all unlicensed applications (such as Freedb) from accessing their database. New licenses for CDDB1 (the original version of CDDB) were no longer available, since Gracenote wanted to force programmers to switch to CDDB2, a new version incompatible with CDDB1. Freedb quickly became more popular than Gracenote, but by 2006 was described as "stagnant", which Scherf (by then chief architect at Gracenote) took as evidence that "the focus and dedication required

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