Home Sharing Music - mixed up albums/missing albums on ipad

It drives me nuts that having spent hours upon hours putting old CDs onto my itunes account, I am unable to see them all properly on my ipad when using home sharing. I like to view them as albums (prefer to be able to see the album cover) yet only a limited number appear and even then some of those aren't what they say they are. Is there a fix to this at all? any advice much appreciated.

Unfortunately I don't think it is as everything is tagged fine on my laptop (iTunes account) it just gets jumbled up when home sharing on my iPad.
I've tried signing in and out with my apple ID on the iPad (as per some suggestions) and it did help but hasn't fully solved the problem.

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Windows 7 user here using Apple TV 3. Overall, I love the device, when it works right.
When I first got it, using the Home Sharing Music Library feature from the Apple TV (in other words, pulling content from the computer) was broken in that it would play for a while, then suddenly stop. There was a *huge* thread on this where many people seemed to experience it.
I was so happy when the last AppleTV update fixed this (for me anyways, and I'd guess many others) - since then (months) it worked flawlessly until today, when the ATV prompted me for an update. Now it's even worse than before and appears to play the first song, then immediately get stuck on the second. =( Anyone else having this issue?
Fortunately, my workaround works, which is "pushing" content from my computer, but this isn't nearly as convenient for a variety of reasons (including much less control via the AppleTV if I'm just relaxing and listening).
I truly hope Apple can resolve this quickly, since they had it nailed before...

Luke, I can confirm the bugs with the latest AppleTV software, version 5. It doesn't matter if it is an ATV2 or ATV3 because they are running the same OS version. There are Home Sharing problems because immediately after I updated my ATV2, I started having Home Sharing problems when trying to play any video from my iMac. The link between the Mac and the ATV2 breaks and it bumps back to the main menu with no computers displayed. Quitting iTunes and re-launching fixes the problem, but it isn't guaranteed. Sometimes you will get lucky and it will remain connected, other times, it will break the link again, after another 5 minutes. And, it won't remember your place in the video when the link breaks.
The other major bug is that TV shows are displayed out of order. Apple has confirmed the TV show order bug, but haven't heard anything on the Home Sharing bug. I have reported that one to Apple. Hopefully we will get a software update soon.

IOS6 Music app closes when trying to search home shared music

My iTunes music media is on my iMac (mountain lion) with iTunes home sharing enabled, when using the iPad 3 (IOS6) ,every time I try to search the home shared music library, the Music app closes on the iPad. The search feature does work on my iPhone 4s running IOS6.
Anyone else experincing this problem?
thanks....

1. Double-click the Home button to reveal Task Bar at bottom
2. Hold the Music app down for a second or two until you see the minus sign
3. Tap the minus sign to close app
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Cannot home share the game app purchased at iTunes store. Home sharing music works. Home sharing books works. But, when I try to copy the game app, it says my computer is not authorized. What am I doing wrong?

Cannot home share the game app purchased at iTunes store. Home sharing music works. Home sharing books works. But, when I try to copy the game app, it says my computer is not authorized. What am I doing wrong?

I've been struggling with a similar issue myself and just figured it out. Some of my content had been purchased with an older Apple ID that I don't use any more. When I authorized my second computer, I only authorized it for my new Apple ID, not my old one. When I tried to copy my library to the new computer, many songs, apps, etc. reported the error "could not be copied because this computer is not authorized". It drove me crazy because I knew the computer was authorized and much of my library came over just fine.
Finally I selected some of the problem items, selected "Get Info" from the menus, and saw that they were all purchased by my old Apple ID. I then authorized my old Apple ID on my new computer, and all of my files are copying correctly now.
Would be great if the message said something like "...because this computer is not authorized for Apple ID [email protected]"

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The new iTunes update gives me no option for a "share" tab on the side bar for me to play home shared music. why? please help i need to listen to beyonce!! plzzz

"share tab on the side bar ..."
iTunes has not had a sidebar for over a year. You can see one (as iTunes 10 used to show) by doing View > Show Sidebar from iTunes' menu.
But I'm not sure if that is your issue. You do not need a sidebar to do home sharing. Are you running the current iTunes (11.1.3)? Have you turned on sharing in Preferences? Have you done File > Turn on Home Sharing?

Home Sharing - no longer able to stream videos to iPads

I have an iMac running latest update to Snow Leopard ( 10.6.7 ), latest version of iTunes ( 10.2.2 ), an iPad 2 running 4.3.3, an iPad 1 running 4.3.2, and an Apple TV 2. Home Sharing is enabled for all of the devices.
I have no issues whatsoever with the ATV2 - works like a champ when streaming anything from the iMac.
However, I can no longer stream movies to either of the iPads and unfortunately am not sure when it stopped working. I am able to stream music through the iPod app without a problem though.
I launch the videos app, select Shared, selected my imac library, and browse the movies. I have noticed that some of the titles don't match the movie and when I select a movie to play, I just get a never-ending spinning wheel. This behavior occurs on both ipads.
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tia,
Bill

After more investigation, I found the issue.
I was able to stream ripped movies, but not movies that were purchased through iTunes. This led me to believe the issue was with DRM and authentication. So even though my Home Sharing credentials appeared to be okay on the iPads, re-entering the password on both fixed the problem!

I'm using home sharing But not all albums or artists show up as they do on my computer in itunes

I'm using home sharing with iTunes but not all artists or albums show up as they appear on the computer I'm looking at

Sure, but if I have International League Pass shouldn't there be a way to tap into that? I mean, if I can watch it on my computer, why can't I conveniently watch it on the television sitting right next to it via Apple TV. Seems odd...

How do you use home sharing to send an album from a pc to an iphone?

I just got an iphone 5 and am trying to move purchased music from my husband's itunes to my phone. I've enabled home sharing, the music is on my iphone but will only play when his computer is on and sharing is enabled. How do I permantley add it to my phone? Is that allowed??

The short answer: because Home Sharing isn't designed for sharing apps, and apps aren't designed to be shared.
The longer answer: Think of it like this...
You download some music in iTunes. With Home Sharing, another user can listen to it by streaming it over the network. But the data itself is on your computer. If you turn off the computer or take it off the network, the other user can't access it.
But if you send another user the app, they aren't just streaming the data- they installed it on their iOS device. Because they weren't the one that purchased it, such a transfer could easily be considered "piracy" or "stealing," and nobody likes that (least of all, Apple).
When iTunes sees this app, it obviously recognized it, as if saying, "Hey, how did you get this app on your device, if I have no record of you purchasing/downloading it from the iTunes store?"
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Apple TV Won't Access Photos in Home Sharing -- Music, Internet OK

I just tried to update the iPhoto pictures I use for my Apple TV screen saver. No luck. The ATV tells me to turn my Home Sharing On even though it is already On.
I like having a screen saver of my photos from iPhoto. From past experience I:
* have an album in iPhoto with the pictures I want on the screensaver (I call it "Apple TV" and it has 119 photos)
* I tell iPhoto to use that album
* I turn home sharing on
* On the Apple TV I choose the library that has my name under computers on the "Choose Photos" screen of "screen saver"
* and to update with new photos (I just went from 118 photos to 119) I have to "trick" the ATV by choosing one of the stock collections -- say the national Geographic -- and once I have lions and tigers dancing across my screen I go back and tell it to get my photos.
I just did that and when I try to access my photos I get the message:
On my computer in iTunes home sharing is on and when I click on the "Choose Photos To Share With Apple TV" I get:
In iPhoto that "Apple TV" album exists and has the 119 pictures.
The ATV is working as it picks up my music library, shows the album artwork, and lets me play my music, Internet Radio, Netfilx, YouTube, ... The network connection is the full five boxes strong.
I've rebooted the ATV and my computer ... no luck.
My ATV is running 6.1.1 (6698.99.19)
My OS X is 10.9.3
iTunes is 11.2.2 (3)
iPhoto 9.5.1 (902.17)
I just upgraded my OS and have had a few hiccups and wonder if this is one of those.
So what am I missing?
Any ideas?
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UPDATE
I went in to iPhoto and created a new album -- called "TV Screen Saver" and copied the photos from the old album that would not load.
Told iTunes to use that album for home sharing.
Told Apple TV to use that album for the screen saver.
Et Voila!
Must have been something in the various updated softwares that disn't like something from before.
Who knows.

HT1947 Why can't I see all songs for an artist when using iPad remote for home sharing music through apple tv.

Why can't I see all my songs for an artist when I search by artist using iPad remote? I'm listening to music via home sharing through apple tv using iPad 2 as my remote. All my songs seem to be listed fine under "songs", but when I select "artist" many of the songs I have for that artist are not there, any idea why that is or how I can fix this.....I suspect it's because many songs may not be associated with an album and it seems only songs in albums are displayed when I search by artist.

Thanks Ferretbite, but that's not the issue in my case, the songs are not part of a compilation. I just checked several of them and the "Part of a compilation" box is unchecked.....it seems as if the song does not have an album associated with it, it will not display under the artist when I search by artist on the iPad remote which REALLY stinks.
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Apple TV, browsing music on home sharing, music stored externally

I wonder if anyone can advise...
I recently bought a Seagate Central wifi external harddrive, 3TB. Besides using it as a remote backup disk, one of the main reasons behind it was combining music collections on my iMac and my wife's MacBook Pro. Advantages being we can listen to each other's music without having to have both computers on at the same time. Also, I'd like to use my new Apple TV to access my music via home sharing settings.
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The strange part is that if I go to the computer and play the track once, when I go back to Apple TV it will them recognise it and be able to play it!
I am trying to find a solution that doesn't involve me clicking through every track of my music collection! Any ideas?

That seems strange.
Have you changed the itunes media folder location to the external drive?
iTunes > Preferences >
Try changing to location to the external hard drive.. so your itunes music gets saved there
Also I'm not sure iTunes can work this way..
I've seen someone try to use a timecapsule the same way and it required them to manually connect to the drive in the finder, before being able to play their music.
Is there a password required when connecting to the drive?

Home Sharing: Music App on iPhone and iPad skips from track to track without playing.

Home Sharing is working from my iMac, OSX 10.9.3, iTunes 11.2.2(3) to my AppleTV, 6.1.1. I can see my iTunes library and play/view music, video and photos. No problems.
I have problems when trying to do the same on my iPhone and iPad.
Using the Music app on my iPhone 4, iOS 7.1.1 I frequently have to re-connect to my iTunes library. However nothing will play in any mode. It just skips from one tune to the next right through to the end of the list without playing any of them.
Using the Music app on my iPad 2, iOS 7.1.1 connecting to my iTunes library is more reliable. Single tunes play through, albums & playlists play through all tunes in sequence. However if I select shuffle then it just skips from one tune to the next right through to the end of the list without playing any of them.
I have only tried sharing to my iPhone/iPad in the last few days so I have no experience of doing this on previous versions.

Today
Music on iPad does not even give me the Sharing option.
Music on iPhone offers Sharing and does indeed connect to my iTunes library. It has all my albums on display. Whoopee you think, is ths a breakthrough? Unfortunately, NO. Play any album and it just skips from one tune to the next right through to the end of the list without playing any of them.
Please bear in mind that no infrastructure has changed during these posts. Same network, hardware and software.
Conclusion:
Home Sharing is useless except between iMac and AppleTV.
Is there anyone out there in Apple land who can convince me otherwise?

Can i use home sharing while mixing wired and wireless connections?

I have an HP Pavilion desktop connected to my wireless router with an Ethernet cable. My AppleTV is connected wirelessly to the 5GHz band on my simultaneous dual-band wireless-N router. How do I share photos and music from the HP desktop to the AppleTV using Home Sharing?

mikefilmguy wrote:
I have a similar problem.
I have 2 computers (and other ethernet addressable devices (printer etc) upstairs connected into a gigabit switch (d-link DG-2205) - computer A is an old 2002 G4 without wifi, computer B is a 2010 Mac mini wired into the switch. Downstairs, I have Computer C - a 2012 Mac mini connected to the fios router via wifi and there is a 1080p Apple TV connected via wifi.
Computer A (Wired switch Connection) can only see computer B's (Wired switch Connection) music library.
Computer B (Wired switch Connection) can see both computer A's and computer C's (Wireless router connection) Music library.
Computer C (Wireless router connection)) can see computer B's (Wired switch Connection) music library.
Apple TV can see computer B and C.
The problem is that computer A Is the music computer That I want to stream throughout.
If computer A and B can see each other, and computer C and AppleTV can see computer B, then why can't everyone see computer A ?
Any response appreciated.
What version of iTunes is the Computer A running - it may not support Home Sharing.

ITunes 9 Home Sharing - music *and* applications?

Reading the documentation for iTunes 9, it says that all copies of iTunes must be logged in using the same app store id. For music, it appears to be "pay once, use multiple (up to five) times". Does it work the same way with applications?
If so, is there any way to transfer "ownership" of apps from one id to another (ie, we've purchased apps for three phones using three different ids and would love to consolidate them)?
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After reading your post, it sounds like you are experiencing an error with the Podcasts app. You may want to consider restarting the device first, and then resetting if that does not work. This article provides detailed instructions for Restarting, and Reseting:
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Home Sharing Music - mixed up albums/missing albums on ipad

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