Home Sharing Questions

Hello,
I have two questions regarding home sharing while I am on vacation. I understand that if I am not on the same network, I will not have access to my files on my iMac or my PC, however, I do have two questions:
1. If my iMac and my iPad are signed into the same VPN, will home sharing work if I am on vacation? Both my iMac and my iPad will be signed on to the same server.
2. I have Xfinity as my Internet provider, and they provide hotspots all over the country that are free for me to use. Since my iMac/PC are on thee Xfinity newtwork, if I sign into the Xfinity hotspot while, say in Maine and my equipment is in Florida, will home sharing work?
My fear is that I must be logged into the same network ID, and they will not be available to me. However, I do have two Network ID's (one is a 2.4Ghz and the other is a 5GHz and they have different names, and Home Sharing does work if my AppleTV is on one and the iMac/PC/iPad is on the other.
The same questions I guess will apply to my AppleTV device, however, if I can get access to my Home Sharing on my iPad, which along with my AppleTV device, I will be bringling with me, I can always change the airplay to play on the AppleTV from my iPad.
Even though I have a WIFI Seagate drive that I use as both a backup and storage for my photos (I am a professional photojournalist) I have all my iTunes files backed up on that device (good thing because if an artist pulls their work from iTunes and you store it Apple's Cloud, it will be deleted) and had I not had a backup, all the Celtic Woman concert videos (close to $60 worth) would be gone
Anyway. thanks for taking your time to read this and considered answering.
George McGinn
Venice, FL
PS. These questions are important for me as I plan to spend 3 months every year traveling throughout the country doing street photography and travel photography as I also shoot stock for Getty Images, so if my movies and music are especially my Home Movies (I have instructional videos and PDF files in iBooks that I may need access to) are not going to be available, I would hate to drag my desktop with me. I will take my WIFI drive and use its player to play my music, as while I can change the directories on my iMac to point to the external drive, I do not know of a way to do this on my iPad.
If I get a travel trailer to use instead of staying in hotels, I may just bring my iMac with me. But I really would like to leave it save in my house.

The answer to both questions is no.
It only automatically syncs new purchases from the iTunes Store between devices, and even then only tracks purchased after the option has been turned on. It won't do a catch up sync to start with.
Non iTunes Store purchased tracks have to be imported manually.
You can view all the tracks that are in the source library but not in the target library.
Then select them all and hit the import button.
All that will do though is transfer the music, it will not move playlists, etc.

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Hey friends, Happy Canadian Thanksgiving.
I just upgraded to the new iTunes and I am wondering how I can get Home Sharing to allow me share music with my Fiance. We both download a lot of music (all of it purchased from iTunes Music Store) and we have our own separate iTunes Accounts.
How can I get Home Sharing to work so all the music one of us purchases is accessible to the other? If we can only use one iTunes account, we are willing to merge our accounts if there is a way to do that.
Thanks!! -Juha

Taken from the help content inside iTunes:
*To share your library with other computers:*
Choose iTunes > Preferences, click Sharing, and select “Share my library on my local network.”
Select the items you want to share.
To require users to enter a password before they can see your shared items, select “Require password” and enter a password.
If you choose to share your entire library, its name appears in the iTunes window (below Shared) on other local computers set up to look for shared libraries. To change the name others see, choose iTunes > Preferences, click General, and type a new name in the Library Name field.
*To turn off sharing:*
Choose iTunes > Preferences and then click Sharing.
Deselect “Share my library on my local network.”
*To import items from other libraries using Home Sharing:*
Choose Advanced > Turn On Home Sharing.
Type your iTunes account name and password, and then click Create Home Share.
Using the same user name and password, repeat steps 1 and 2 on each computer.
To import items from another computer, select the computer (below Shared), and drag items from its library to yours.
To automatically import iTunes Store items that are downloaded to a computer you’re Home Sharing with, select “Automatically import new purchases from [Computer Name].”

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A bit confused about Home Sharing (just bought a 2nd gen AppleTV).
We have two Macs in the apt - mine and my girlfriends.
I can start up Home Sharing on the AppleTV (I used my iTunes account as the Home Sharing account), so I can see my Library.
Now I believe if I want to set it up so her library will appear on AppleTV also, I need to start home sharing on her computer. If I set that up I think I need to use the same Home Sharing account as on the AppleTV (my account).
When I try to do this, it says I need to authorize the computer under my account.
So what I am wondering is:
1. is her computer authorized both under her account and my account? I didn't want to authorize her computer under my account if that is going to wreak havoc. And if I do need to do that, can her computer than still play all the music that she purchase pre-non DRM files?
2. is her computer "look like" just another computer of mine? So if she purchases a song, for example, is it billed to my account or hers?
Thanks-

You cannot deauthorize computers to which you do not have access.
There is no need to do this, unless you reach the limit of 5.
Once you reach 5, you can deauthorize all and authorize the computers that are in use.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420

Airplay/home sharing question

Is it possible to bounce movies contained in my desktop itunes library back and forth from ipad and apple tv?
Say, for instance, I'm on the couch watching a movie and would like to start dinner in the kitchen. Can i take the movie with me on the ipad, picking up on the ipad where i left off from the apple tv? And then pass it back to the apple tv when I'm done cooking to continue watching on the couch again?
I tried doing this the hard way. I would stop the movie on apple tv, browse the shared library from ipad and find the movie and it would start just fine from where i stopped it. But strangely, I'd stop the movie from the ipad, browse apple tv for it and start it again only to find that it's not picking up where i left off from the ipad. It picks up where i stopped the apple tv to begin with, so i need to fast forward through the part that i just watched on the ipad in the other room to get to where i left off on the ipad.
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Welcome to the Apple Community.
- When I play music in ITunes on my computer, I want the same thing to play on the Apple TV.
You already seem to know how to do this.
- When I play my itunes music on the Apple TV (via Home Sharing or AirPlay), I want the same thing to play in iTunes on my computer.
This isn't possible.
- I want the pause/play/next track buttons to work on the Apple TV.
Works fine for me.
But if I select a new track on the Apple TV, it goes out-of-sync: the old track continues playing on the computer, and the new one plays on the Apple TV
That's because you can't use your Apple TV to control your computer.

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I have bought a television series under one Apple ID on my computer. My computer is synced to my apple TV, but under a different Apple ID. Can I still sync that series to the TV even if it was bought under a different Apple ID?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Yes, just make sure it uses the other ID for home sharing.
Add the second account to the Apple TV at settings > iTunes Store and will also be able download and purchase from that account from the cloud.

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Can you share libraries between 2 people with separate accounts on the same computer?

Hi ozymandius257,
If you are interested in whether iTunes Home Sharing would be right for your particular situation, you may find the following article helpful:
Apple Support: Understanding Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819
Cheers,
- Brenden

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If I turn on Home Sharing can I import songs from my current Mac to a new Mac even though some music is imported from CD's? Can someone please tell mw about how long it takes to import 30,000 songs using home sharing?

cris1395 wrote:
If I turn on Home Sharing can I import songs from my current Mac to a new Mac even though some music is imported from CD's?
yes, all kind of files may be copied by homesharing (audio, video, pdf, purchased as well as ripped files)
Can someone please tell mw about how long it takes to import 30,000 songs using home sharing?
not really - depends on the speed of your network connection and the size of those files

Another Home Sharing Question

I have 3 computers running Windows 7 or Vista, and iTunes and all have the same account and settings for Home Sharing. Computer A can see computers B and C. B can see A. C can not see either of the other Home Shares. There are no other apparent problems with the network. I can do normal Windows file sharing, access the Internet, etc. The only problem is iTunes Home Sharing.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Have you checked your firewalls? I'd try temporarily turning off firewalls and see if you can then access the machines via home sharing, in which case you can then pursue the opening of the appropriate ports as needed. I know having just installed Norton 360 v4, I had to manually open port 3689 on my PC (I did it just for my subnet, just to be safe).

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I'm sure this is a basic question but I can't seem to find the answer. Please any help us MUCH appreciated! Here's the deal... I'm a long time iTunes and iPhone user and have a large music & apps library. My wife has her own computer and recently got an iPhone... so I set her up using my Apple ID so we could home share. This worked okay but with the release of iOS5 and iCloud... I'm confused.
My question is... how does iCloud play into this now? We now have multiple comptuers and iPhones using the same Apple ID... so how does Find My Friend & Find my iPhone work? How does syncing with iCloud work? Will it seperate our contacts?
Last question... how would YOU set this up? I don't want my wife have to repurchase the same music and apps... but she has her own laptop and iPhone.
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I assume that if you are actually using the laptop to stream photos or music to the ATV, then it won't hibernate?
The details of that issue depends on whether or not you've got "wake on network access" enabled. Here's a cut and paste of the info from the relevant troubleshooting document:
8. Cannot access my library when my computer is asleep
In order for Apple TV to access your library while the host computer is asleep, "Wake for network access" must be turned on.
Open System Preferences > Energy Saver and check (enable) the "Wake for network access" option.
In addition, the network that the host computer and the Apple TV (2nd or 3rd generation) is connected to must support Wake on Demand feature. This works by partnering with a service running on your AirPort Base Station or Time Capsule called Bonjour Sleep Proxy.

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I currently have an outdated iTunes on my PC, but it says it isn't able to download the newest iTunes, and I want to transfer all my content to my new laptop, how do I do this? I'm looking for the easiest way possible to sort this issue. Is there any way I can easily move all the content to my laptop?

the appletv see the shared lib of the computer it only! connects with the computers shared lib for the appletv it matters not where the media is stored it gets the data from itunes on the computer you can put it in a nas or on a cd or on a floppy disk it's of no relevance for the appletv it sees only itunes

Legality questions about Home Sharing

I have some legality questions about Apple's Home Sharing technology.
As I understand it, you can share (that is, copy it from one computer to another) your music, movies, applications and other iTunes-managed files amongst five computers. The only 'trick' is that each computer must have an iTunes Store account and must be logged in in order for it to work.
My question concerns the copying aspect and the legality of it. For content that was purchased through the iTunes Store I can see how Home Sharing can provide a limitation on content sharing, since all of the machines would need to be connected to Apple's servers in order for the validation process to happen. But what about content that was added to iTunes through other means, e.g., ripping my own CDs or converting my DVDs? These items can still be copied via Home Sharing and as there's no DRM on them there's no way they can be protected against "illegal" or "unauthorized" use.
It was my understanding that if I gave a copy of a song to someone else, that's illegal. Apple's Home Sharing technology seems to facilitate this action. If I rip a CD or DVD into iTunes and someone copies it out, isn't that making an illegal copy? Can I be held liable for distribution of content?
And how far does this extend? If I live in a house with four unrelated people, are they legally (?) allowed to copy music and media amongst each another? Is there a perceived or actual difference between using Home Sharing to copy a movie versus, say, using a USB flash drive? And what if one of them moves out? Am I legally obligated to go through that person's hard drive and remove content that they copied from me before they leave the building?
Does Home Sharing somehow retroactively change the copyright application on a given CD or DVD? Most of my CDs and DVDs contain notices and warnings against distributing copies. Can these warnings now be ignored, or at least amended with "...unless you're using iTunes Home Sharing" at the ends of them?
I am not trying to stir up a hornet's nest here. I'm only trying to better understand the legal issues surrounding Home Sharing and particularly how they relate to unprotected content. It seems very contradictory that the RIAA and MPAA would be fighting so hard against peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent and Gnutella while apparently allowing peer-to-peer services through iTunes Home Sharing.
Furthermore, I also understand that the intention of this system was to allow families who are living together to have common access to all of the "household" music, but my issues aren't about this. 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?
Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks.

If I rip a CD or DVD into iTunes and someone copies it out, isn't that making an illegal copy?
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

Home sharing on iTunes 9.0 question

I've tried searching for an answer to this and either no one has addressed it or I'm just blind. I know that two computers have to be authorized on a single iTunes account to enable home sharing and that you can copy music from the second computer (which has either been purchased from the iTunes store or ripped from CD) over to the first computer. My question though is what will happen to those copied songs, if the computer where they originated is DEAUTHORIZED? Will the songs no longer be playable?
I'm concerned about this because I've had to swap between hard drives (lap top and desk top) lately and I'm currently using a lap top as my sole computer which is where I keep all my music. I had to get a new hard drive once and also reformat the new one several months later. To transfer my music back and forth I just copied my music folder over to an external hard drive and back again once the new hard drive was ready. The result on my iTunes and music was that many songs were somehow duplicated, every other song wasn't able to be located, songs were lost, some songs that I though I deleted showed back up, etc. After hours and hours though I've fixed all the music and I am once again in harmony, for now. I will be switching back to a desk top (for good) in about a year and I'm afraid of repeating this nonsense again.
I was hoping that I could set up iTunes on the desktop (which will have nothing on it) and authorize it in iTunes, then activate home sharing, then copy the entire library over to the new desk top. This "should" copy all of my music that I REALLY want to the new desk top, and finally keeping all of my music nice and neet. But again, what will happen to the music on the new desk top if I deauthorize the original laptop?

From iTunes Menu Advanced select -> Turn Off Homesharing
Repeat that an every computer
The Turn On Homesharing again - Use the same ID/PW that you use / have used for purchasing songs on every computer

Tried to use home sharing to transfer itunes library from old pc to new -- however it only brings over the music, did not bring audiobooks- My question is do I need to delete itunes from my new pc when I redo using external hard drive

Trying to transfer iTunes library from old windows 7 pc to new windows 8.1. Used home sharing, but not what I wanted, I want everything on the new so I can discard the old pc - so now all I have is my music library on new pc thru the cloud none of my Audible audiobooks came over - My question is do I need to delete iTunes off my new pc before I load it in from a external hard drive?

You might need to make sure neither is going to sleep (System Prefs > Energy Saver)
Also check your settings under System Prefs > Security. My sisters new laptop kept logging off due to some setting there.
HTH

Question On Transfer iTunes Library Via Home Sharing

Hi everyone, so basically the situation I'm in is I got a new PC laptop to replace my Macbook Pro and I want to be able to sync my iphone, ipod and ipad with the new library on the PC. I've already gone through transfering my entire library with all my music and apps etc using home sharing. My question is would I be able to connect my ios devices now and without a problem sync it with my PC? I'm afraid if I do connect it I will lose my contacts and pictures on my iphone.

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