diff --git a/libs/ardour/library.cc b/libs/ardour/library.cc
index fbc0ed06d0..8fff83529b 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/library.cc
+++ b/libs/ardour/library.cc
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ LibraryFetcher::get_descriptions ()
 	curl_easy_setopt (curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, CurlWrite_CallbackFunc_StdString);
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &buf);
-	CURLcode res = curl_easy_perform (curl);
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2L);
+        CURLcode res = curl_easy_perform (curl);
 	curl_easy_cleanup (curl);
 
 	if (res != CURLE_OK) {