Problems with Itunes/Gracenote

dane

Here's yet another question about Itunes.

I just bought a new Ipod and when it arrives, I plan on loading almost all cd's I have into it.
But I'm having troubles with Itunes. Both Musicstore and Gracenote doesn't work. I get an errormessage saying "Unable to connect to Itunes store/Gracenote CDDB. Make sure you're connected to the internet and try again".
My internetconnection is working fine and my firewall is set to allow communication from/to Itunes.
Can anybody inhere please tell me what to do? Really don't feel like punching in 20000 tracks manually.

Thanks.

legend_killer1

Some of the stuff on the below Apple Support link may help...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300870

If it doesn't then I'll look into this a bit further.

corduroy41

Have you already ripped your music collection to your computer already?

Are you using a Mac or Windows based pc?

dane

legend_killer1 wrote:

Some of the stuff on the below Apple Support link may help...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300870

If it doesn't then I'll look into this a bit further.

I have tried all that, but nothing helps.

corduroy41 wrote:

Have you already ripped your music collection to your computer already?

Are you using a Mac or Windows based pc?

No, I haven't ripped all of my musiccollection yet. But some of it is, cause I ripped it for my old Mini 4GB.
I'm using Windows XP with servicepack 2.

corduroy41

dane wrote:

I have tried all that, but nothing helps.



No, I haven't ripped all of my musiccollection yet. But some of it is, cause I ripped it for my old Mini 4GB.
I'm using Windows XP with servicepack 2.

Well, for ripping your cd collection, I would suggest you try this program here:

http://www.download.com/3000-2140-10226370.html

CDex has CDDB support, and is very easy to use. I've never bothered with any other ripper since it came out. Much better than itunes IMO.

As for the already ripped files you have, I never had much luck with any shareware/freeare apps that claim they can automatically rename your mp3's. 4GB's of music to rename manually is no big deal if you have to.

But.. if you're feeling adventourous, you could give one of these programs a try:

http://www.nonags.com/nonags/mp3man.html

dane

corduroy41 wrote:

Well, for ripping your cd collection, I would suggest you try this program here:

http://www.download.com/3000-2140-10226370.html

CDex has CDDB support, and is very easy to use. I've never bothered with any other ripper since it came out. Much better than itunes IMO.

As for the already ripped files you have, I never had much luck with any shareware/freeare apps that claim they can automatically rename your mp3's. 4GB's of music to rename manually is no big deal if you have to.

But.. if you're feeling adventourous, you could give one of these programs a try:

http://www.nonags.com/nonags/mp3man.html

Ok, I'll try that CDex thing. But i really wish I could get Itunes to work properly. Nomatter what I do, that requires internetconnection, I get that errormessage.

Thanks for the tips.

norm

Have you tried uninstalling itunes and reinstalling? I can't think of what you're prob might be. sorry

dane

cutback wrote:

Have you tried uninstalling itunes and reinstalling? I can't think of what you're prob might be. sorry

Yeah, I tried that. I even tried installing it in different languages, 'cause I thought it might create a conflict, when installing it in english or danish into XP running in Norwegian.

dane

So after hours and hours of reading help pages, trying all sorts of different things, I have now disabled all my firewalls. Found out I have 3 different(?)
And it works! Feels a bit like painting a bullseye on my forehead though......

corduroy41

dane wrote:

So after hours and hours of reading help pages, trying all sorts of different things, I have now disabled all my firewalls. Found out I have 3 different(?)
And it works! Feels a bit like painting a bullseye on my forehead though......

Oops.. guess we overlooked the obvious first eh?

Oh well. Glad to hear it's working out for you.