PJ07 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 I have two MacBook Pro's sitting side by side, that I am using to rip my CD collection. On MacBook Pro #1, everything works fine: iTunes rips the CD's and finds the song names and album info from Gracenote. On MacBook Pro #2, iTunes tries to rip the CD's but is not able to access Gracenote. It keeps displaying the error "iTunes cannot connect to Gracenote server. Do you want to continue ripping the CD?" Both MacBook Pro's are connected to the internet. And in iTunes > Preferences > General, the "Automatically retrieve CD track names from Internet" box is checked on both MacBook Pro's. Any thoughts why MacBook Pro #2 cannot access Gracenote? Thx Link to comment
kirkmc Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 There's no reason why, unless there's some software on the second computer that is blocking it. Have you tried restarting it? I write about Macs, music, and more at Kirkville. Author of Take Control of macOS Media Apps. Co-host of The Next Track podcast. Link to comment
PJ07 Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 Success! In System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Firewall > Firewall Options, iTunes.app was set to block incoming connections. Changing it to "allow" solved the problem. Not sure why it was set to "block" though ... Link to comment
kirkmc Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Interesting. Did you recently updates something? I think only the system could make that change without your intervention. I write about Macs, music, and more at Kirkville. Author of Take Control of macOS Media Apps. Co-host of The Next Track podcast. Link to comment
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