I'm hoping that when my kids grow up they're horrified that we ever drove gas-powered cars.

That sounds crazy. Nobody is horrified by trains burning coal, noone is horrified by old tech. It is part of progress.

They should be horrified by wars, political unrest and so on...

Lots of people are horrified that we used to put lead in everything.

The software and the database can be downloaded. There's already a few links here to do just that.

I'm sure a few clone sites will pop up and you could always run a local copy yourself.

If Exact Audio Copy doesn't allow you to set the API to connect to, you could always use some proxy software (I use Charles) to forward freedb links to your chosen replacement.

I do have 4G, but at $1 per 100MB. I'd rather have the WiFi password when one's available.

I use DDG as my daily search engine and didn't know about this. I'm frequently impressed by all the "extras" that they include.

I think I'll start using this a lot!

Unnecessary sarcasm aside, I'm Keen to look at it simple because it's written in Rust. I like Rust so this is interesting for that reason alone.

Besides that, Mozilla and the Firefox community have a lot of Rust devs so writing this in Rust may make this more likely to get PRs from people involved in the FF Send project