freeDB database download for Windows

I was wondering about the freeDB database being accessible only in Unix format. Downloading it from sendspace.com is not a really good opportunity, although I believe it is one of the best free alternatives.
Seeing these limitied possibilities to get the files of this amazing data base made me think about hosting it myself - and voila - there it is. Download the files you need.
But please remember one of the most importent rules within the internet: Every downloaded file needs to be checked on viruses!

On freeDB.org you can find monthly freeDB updates, which are smaller than 10MB, so you wont have to download the complete database every month. But you will need the Update Tool. It is essential for updating your freeDB on Windows. The Unix and the Windows version of the data base use different methods for storing its data. The storing system of the Windows version makes it impossible to provide update files for Windows which are as little as those for Unix. If you get the Update Tool, though, you can use the update files for Unix and save yourself a lot of downloading.
Simply download the freeDB Update Tool and the update file you want to use. Choose the downloaded update file and your already extracted update-needing freeDB directory. The program will finish the job.

On freedb.org there is a little tutorial how to extract the Unix data base on Windows. I strongly recommend to not doing this.
On my machine (and it is a fast machine) it took around 36 hours to extract only half of the data base (after that I killed the task). Even more disgusting is the fact that the db files are each smaller than 1 kilobyte but each one takes due to the Windows file system around 4 kilobyte. Now calculate this with around 2.6 million files. Yes, you are right, it's around 10 gigabytes. The half of it was around 5 gigabytes on my computer.
For more detailed information on this issue, visit freeDB FAQ.