[iTunes] Querying Gracenote CDDB

[Ray Kloss]

On Dec 20, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Becca Price wrote:

> I am importing some music into iTunes, and decided to try to use
> the feature to automatically add track names from the internet.
> I got the message that iTunes is accessing Gracenote... and it
> seems to be taking forever to access, much less to find the
> information. How long does this feature usually take, and how do
> I know when to give up and just enter the titles myself?
>
> also, will this feature give me the cd cover picture for the cd
> that I'm importing? I've got a brand new Nano, and it would be
> kinda cool to have the album covers shown, rather than the box
> with the question mark or whatever the default icon is.
>
> -becca

A few things to try. Delete your  "~/Library/Preferences/ 
com.apple.iTunes.plist". (You may want to just "Compress" it with the  
right-click command and then delete it. you can then recover the  
original if needed)

Turn off the Import selection to get song names from the internet.  
Quit iTunes. Turn it back on a gain.

Make sure you don't have some sort of firewall up.

Start there. If not. Download iTunes from Apple and reinstall it. It  
won't mess with your library at all.

ray