Unable to import music into iTunes from an external CD drive

I have an iMac 27" recently updated to MacOS 14.3.1. When I launched Music (iTunes) I got a pop up window stating something like 'do you want to allow an external device to access media' and clicked no thinking I could change this setting if need be. Now I can't play/import music into iTunes from my external Apple Superdrive and I get an Error code 'Error occurred while converting the file 'song name'. An unknown error occurred (-54) message. The message occurs immediately after hitting import CD no matter if you choose the entire CD or any subset of songs. I have tried multiple cd's and multiple drives with the same results. I even bought a new external drive and tried all of my USB ports. Each of the drives will work for other program. I can drag and drop the music files to tediously get the files into iTunes but I must rename and add all of the information for each song.

I believe that getting back to the access request and clicking yes would fix the problem. Does anyone know where that setting would live? Thank you .