Home Sharing iTunes 11.1.5/Mountain Lion/iOS 7

Since updating to iTunes 11.1.5 I am unable to see my shared libraries from my iPhone or iPad running iOS7. 
When using the previous version of iTunes, the iOS devices were able to see the shared libraries, but had great difficulty connecting consistently. 
The iTunes I am trying to share from is running on 10.8.5.
I have another Mac, running Mavericks.  That Mac can see and share the Mountain Lion's library.  The iOS devices can see the music from the Mavericks iTunes (also 11.1.5), but can not play it - each song scrolls by as if it has zero length.
All the devices are on an AirPort Extreme network.  The Mountain Lion Mac is wired and the rest are wireless.  Enabling the wireless network and disabling the wired network on the Mountain Lion Mac doesn't change anything, nor does signing in/out of Apple ID, restarting Music App in iOS devices or many of the other tricks that have been described.
Disabling IPv6 doesn't help, and the AirPort Utility can't see the base station with IPv6 turned off.  It's currently set to local-link only, as that solved othe IPv6 issues.

This may be extremely obvious, but I missed it, despite reading http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972:
There are two places to enable Home Sharing.
I had it enabled in Preferences > Sharing Preferences
However, I did not have it enabled in File > Home Sharing.  As soon as I turned it on there, it asked for my Apple ID (which was already signed in to the iTunes Store and iMessage and numerous other locations) and then everything worked correctly.
I don't know if this is left over because I have been running iTunes since there was iTunes and have consistently carried over preferences as I upgrade machines.  However, this is a ridiculously awful interface.  I had presumed that I definitely had Home Sharing enabled, as I've clearly checked 'Share my library on my local network'.
Hope this helps someone else who has a similar issue.

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