I built a small tool that fixes audio CD metadata lookup on PS3. When Sony shut down the original CDDB servers on 2019, the console lost the ability to fetch metadata for audio CDs. I loved to listen CDs on my PS3 and when they took this from me I felt I really lost something. This project brings that back.
Technically it is a local proxy written Node.js that is acting as DNS server so the PS3's requests to the (dead) metadata servers get redirected to machine running this proxy. It also runs an HTTP server that is trying to recreate original endpoint and translates the disc TOC into a query against gnudb (FreeDB), and replies to PS3.
No jailbreak required, it works purely via a DNS setting, so it's fine on retail firmware, and also works on modded consoles.
GitHub: https://github.com/csrednicki/ps3-cddb
License: MIT
Protocol details were worked out through independent interoperability research on my own hardware and community effort, no use of confidential docs/tools.
Not affiliated with Sony or gnudb.
Happy to answer questions or take PRs if anyone wants to help extend it.
PS: there is another newly added similar project on psx-place by mohasi but that one is plugin for modded consoles. Both projects are unrelated.
Source: r/ps3homebrew · by /u/c97