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Wandora's FreeDB extractor converts [http://www.freedb.org freedb] database entries to a topic map. Freedb is a huge database of CD information. Database is a collection of formatted plain text files. Each database file contains information about one disc: titles, artists, track names, and genres for example. Database's license is GPL General Public License. Freedb can be downloaded at

* [http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/ http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/]

To start Wandora's FreeDB extractor select '''File > Extract > Media > FreeDB extractor...''' and point database entry file(s) or a database entry folder. The database contains over 2.5 million files and you can't extract all that data to a memory topic map. [[Memory topic map]] suits only for partial extractions. To extract the whole database you need to use a [[Database topic map|database topic map]].

See Wandora's sample folder for an example of FreeDB extraction. [http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/misc/freedb_database_format_specs.zip Freedb database format specification] may help you to understand the conversion process.