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chileboy
12-03-2007, 08:17 AM
The titile says it - what ports need to be open on a firewall for meta retrieval from AMG and freedb?

Thanks,

- Mark
Spoon
12-03-2007, 10:25 AM
Just 80 AFAIK.
chileboy
12-03-2007, 10:43 AM
Just 80 AFAIK.
Hmm, that's what I thought too, but it isn't retrieving when I'm at the office (ahem).

I wonder if the URL is being blocked...is every address being accessed <something>.allmusic.com, or is it calling some other site internally?
Spoon
12-03-2007, 06:27 PM
Yes on allmusic.com, in the FAQ is one firewall which stops amg from working because it modifies the packets.
chileboy
12-03-2007, 08:12 PM
You might be onto something there Spoon - not sure if it's the same FAQ as you were looking at, but the one that I just read appears to indicate that if advertising is being blocked, it will break AMG - and my corporate firewall does indeed block much advertising (not just pop-ups, but ads within the pages as well). I'm guessing that's what's happening.

I'm going to tinker with it when I get a minute and see if that's what's affecting it.

Thanks!

- Mark