CDDB in VLC V3.0 - new take on an old problem

[dsquared]

Hello there:
I am using VLC V3.0.0 64 bit in Win 10 Home 64 bit and run into an old problem: VLC is not retrieving CD info from the interwebs. VLC neither retrieves the CDDB info nor the album art. I have tried the following:

• 1) Multiple CDs that all retrieve the correct info through AIMP.
  2) Changing the CDDB server to freedb.org, cddb.cddb.org , freedb.freedborg, etc and resetting the server to its original setting

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Do you see the requests going through?

[mederi]

Does freedb.freedb.org not work? https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 73#p467373

[dsquared]

Do you see the requests going through?

How do I do that? - there doesn't appear to be some method of forcing the request.

Does freedb.freedb.org not work? https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 73#p467373

No freedb.freedb.org does not work. Neither do these servers (http://www.freedb.org/en/applications__ ... ion.8.html)work

[InTheWings]

You need to enable Metadata Network Access in preferences.

Otherwise you'll get:
cdda stream debug: album art policy set to manual: not fetching

working for me.

[dsquared]

You need to enable Metadata Network Access in preferences.

Metadata Network Access is enabled

Note I have upgraded to V3.0.1 64 bit and the problem still occurs