Home Sharing Enabled Playlist No Content

I recently had a problem with Home Sharing not working at all for my remote devices with the exception of my Apple TV. I got by that by launching iTunes as administrator. Here is my setup and my problem:
Windows 8.1 64-bit
iTunes for Windows 12.1.0.71
Home Sharing enabled
Edit > Preferences > Sharing - Share my entire library is selected
Apple TV 3 - No problems accessing content
iPad - No problems accessing content
iPhone - When I launch the Music app., I can click on More. I select Playlist > My Shared Library. It looks to load very quickly, which I feel is odd because my library is large. I goto Playlist and it says No Content.
Wife's iPad - Same behavior as the iPhone
Everything is on the same wireless network and home sharing is using the same apple ID.

Good day Derek,
If you are having an issue with Home Sharing not funtioning as expected, I would suggest that you troubleshoot using the steps in this article -
Troubleshooting Home Sharing - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Safe computing,
Brett L

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Not working and sometimes when it is working, it cuts out in the middle, or when you click on the computer name, the focus goes away from the library. In other words, really weird.
What it is
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Symptoms
Home Sharing machine not showing up in Apple TV or the Macbook
The Macbook home sharing not showing up on my desktop
Home Sharing working intermittently
Connections getting cut of intermittently
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Sometimes, restarting the Macbook or the Apple TV will make things work.
The "working" doesn't last long
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Select Properties
Uncheck "QoS Packet Scheduler"
Click OK
Restart iTunes if necessary
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I have some legality questions about Apple's Home Sharing technology.
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RIPping of commercial, encrypted DVDs (most of them) is illegal to begin with. Or rather, breaking the encryption on a DVD is illegal and in order to RIP the DVD, you must break the encryption. SO you have already "broken the law" by having a copy on your computer.
Most of my CDs and DVDs contain notices and warnings against distributing copies.
Most of your DVDs have a notice about even simply making a copy, not only distributing copies.
Much of your post has been cussed and discussed by many, many people (lawyers, corporations, organizations, individuals, etc.) and no one has come (or likely ever will come) to a complete agreement.
Generally, "sharing" in the same house hold amongst family members seems to be okay. Outside the same household/family is almost always not okay.
I envision, for example, a college dorm building where there's several hundred people living together on the same network subnet, and all of them have Home Sharing enabled and everyone is copying thousands and thousands of songs to/from one another. Is this now legal?
No.
This is exactly what Napster was and why they were sued & shut down.
I imagine Apple lawyers have done their homework as well as consulted with the labels to discuss these exact issues.
And it's called "Home Sharing" to indicate that it is not "Dorm Sharing" or "Workplace Sharing", or even simply "Library Sharing"etc. even though it may be possible to use it in other places than the Home.
Users on other computers need to know your iTunes ID and password to enable it Home Sharing. Likely this is how Apple got the lables to be okay with it.
Are you gonna give (and get) dozens/hundreds/thousands/any other users your iTunesID & password?
You can contact Apple Legal here -> http://www.apple.com/legal

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