[freedb was shut down](https://blog.metabrainz.org/2018/09/18/freedb-gateway-end-of-life-notice-march-18-2019). [This PR](https://github.com/johnlane/abcde/pull/16) to [johnlane's fork](https://github.com/johnlane) updates the URLs in abcde to use gnudb. It might be a good idea to incorporate it?