Home Sharing Broken With Update- what version will restore go back to?

Like others my AppleTV loses home sharing when waking from sleep and I have to restart iTunes for it to see my content. If was thinking about restoring the AppleTV to the original settings. Will that revert back to the OS version it came with or the latest OS?

I too am experiencing this issue. I love the ATV2 and like you everything worked flawlessly until 4.2. Now my friends just laugh when I attempt to show-off my ATV only to be greeted with the now infamous "no content" message.
Also, the only "workaround" that works for me every time is restarting iTunes. Toggling Home Sharing (on either the ATV or my Mac) only works some of the time. It's particularly annoying as my Mac is in another room and the whole reason I bought an ATV is so I wouldn't have to get off the couch (to pop a disc in) when I want to watch a movie.
Please Apple, fix this soon...

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Today I updated both my computers to the latest version of iTunes, 12.0.1.26. Previously, Home Sharing was working properly, but with this update they are unable to connect to each other
With iTunes open on both computers, I can see the remote computer name within iTunes, but when I try to open it I get the message "Loading <computer>" and then nothing happens. The loading just keeps going and it never actually connects to the remote computer.
Both computers are signed in to the same Apple ID and have Home Sharing enabled, and as I said everything worked perfectly before this update. I ran the diagnostics on both computers and everything is good there. Here's the output from the diagnostic tests in case it comes in handy
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The only thing I could think of would be if the update changed the ports that home sharing uses, but I have no idea for sure. Has anyone else experienced this issue and/or have a solution for it?

Hi Sterling, thank you for your reply
I've went ahead and have gone through those troubleshooting steps, however the problem still persists.
I thought the firewall would most likely be the problem, so I opened the incoming ports on both computers, however that didn't change anything.
Next thing I tried was configuring Connection Security Rules on both computers, allowing my entire LAN (192.168.1.0/24) as accepted endpoints, this also failed.
Finally I tried disabling the whole firewall temporarily on both computers, and when this didn't fix the issue I ruled out the possibility of it being a firewall issue
However, I have noticed that creating a Home Sharing connection from my desktop (server) to my laptop (client) actually does work, and I can see a playlist I created. So that's some progress. However, connecting from the laptop to the desktop (which has all my music) still doesn't work.
After this I went ahead and decided to use Wireshark to capture the packet stream of both the successful and failed connections. What I've noticed is that iTunes home sharing uses a series of HTTP GET requests to establish the connection to the remote computer. Connecting from my desktop to my laptop I see that 23 total GET requests are sent and are all ACK'd. However, connecting from my laptop to my desktop, only one GET request is sent, and it is also ACK'd. Here are two screenshots of the TCP streams. The first is the successful connection and the second is the failed. You can see in the first screenshot's HTTP header, I've highlighted that 23 requests are being sent. In the second screenshots HTTP header, only 1 request is being sent.
With this is mind, I believe I can rule out any network issues on my end, since iTunes is actually only sending one GET request from my laptop and it is successfully delivered, however it hangs there and doesn't continue. I believe this to be an issue with the iTunes software and I hope the iTunes development team can look into it. I think my next step will be to re-install iTunes to see if that resolves it.

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TL;DR: On a hunch, I changed the power settings of the ATV to never sleep. Since then, I have not had any issues. Granted, it's only been a couple of days, but it seems to have done the trick.
Folks,
Wanted to share my experience with Home Sharing issues after upgrading to iTunes 10.6. These forums a rampant with reports of the issue, so I'll defer to the search field above if you don't know what I am talking about. In short: iTunes 10.6 seems to have busted Home Sharing.
For those who do, here's what I found:
For some reason, is saw a very large number of established sessions from my Apple TV (ATV) into port 3689 on my Mac. This is the port that ATV uses to query iTunes to see what's available via Home Sharing (e.g.: what movies, songs, pictures, etc are available for display on the ATV).
A sniffer cap and some observation of the power indicator on the ATV indicated that while it was sleeping, the ATV was querying iTunes. It would power on for a sec (wake on LAN, maybe?), issue some queries, then sleep.
When this happened, the TCP sessions created were never town down. As such, I would eventually see 200+ established sessions on port 3689. I don't know exactly how many it took to make this happen, but when I saw this, iTunes stopped accepting new connections.
Of course, bouncing iTunes would remedy the issue for a while, but it would return.
On a hunch, I changed the power settings of the ATV to never sleep. Since then, I have not had any issues. Granted, it's only been a couple of days, but it seems to have done the trick.
I would be interested to hear if it works for others.
Happy viewing,
Chris

Thanks for posting this.
I've been searching for an option of how to approach this problem.
I picked up the new AppleTV when it was released, but it has made iTunes fairly useless from a Home Sharing standpoint.
I also observed the massive number of TCP connections being opened against iTunes, but never closed.
As expected, I could manually kill a few of these connections, and then could connect again, even without closing iTunes.
I performed most of my testing with Windows 7, but while troubleshooting I had the same issue with iTunes on an old Mac Mini I had sitting around.
I will try your solution, which makes a lot of sense, but it would be nice if Apple fixed the real problem.
Thanks again.

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I was able to use my home sharing on my iPad before I did the update 7.2.1
Since updating, now when I load my shared library on my iPad and I go to play a song, it skips to the next song, then the next, then the next, etc. very fast.
I had my friend bring their iPad over that did not do the update yet, and it worked just fine so I know for sure it isn't a network issue, or a firewall issue.
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Hi guys,
I'm having problems with streaming music and video on my iPhone 6 plus from my Macbook Pro (mid 2010 model) using iTunes' Home Sharing . I am able to stream without any issues using my iPhone 4S and my Apple TV, however.
I am using iTunes version 12.0.1.26, iOS 8.1.2, and OSX 10.9.5.
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However, when I try to play songs, a couple things may happen. First, nothing plays for about 10 seconds; then a second or two of the song plays followed by silence again, appearing as if it's buffering. Second thing that may happen is that a second or two plays immediately followed by silence. If I press next to play the next song, what usually happens is that nothing plays, although the song title does appear.
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Hopefully someone could shed some light with this issue. Please feel free to comment. I'm open to and appreciate any suggestions while Apple tries to find a solution. Thanks.

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