Urgent! N2MP3 1.01 update needed to prevent flooding of CDDB database

A warning from Proteron Proteron, LLC today issued an urgent N2MP3 1.01pr update to its "drag-and-drop Macintosh audio encoder, N2MP3. This update will prevent unsuspecting Mac users from causing harm to the well known compact disc database (CDDB). All old copies of N2MP3 should be immediately replaced and/or upgraded to the current preview release version, marked 1.01 PR." According to Proteron, here is the problem:

"Every time an N2MP3 user inserted a non-audio CD (regular data CD-ROM), N2MP3 would continually to query the CDDB with no timeout. This amounted to an unintentional denial of service type attack on the CDDB services. During the past weekend, as a greater and greater number of users installed N2MP3, the number of queries reached a critical mass."

Other bug fixes and improvements in this release include: support for proxies for CDDB users behind firewalls; GrayAmp file format now an option for encoded MP3 files.

Other problems reported Mike Lambert reports numerous problems using N2MP3 (bear in mind: it is still a "preview" release): "The program crashed my UMAX C500/160 during my first attempt to rip a CD, and trashed the prefs that I initially set for the program." Other problems followed. We have not received other similar reports, so we are not sure how common this might be.