Home Sharing streaming issues?

Ever since the last Apple TV update, I have had problems streaming movies using Home Sharing from my iMac. I will start watching a movie when the Apple TV suddenly goes back to the Home Screen. I am able to watch movies via Airplay and use my Netflix account to watch shows and this does not happen. It is recognizing my computer but I am only able to watch about 5 minutes of a movie until I get booted out of Home Sharing. I have tried to watch several different movies and the same thing happens. My iTunes software is up to date and this all started to happen when I updated my Apple TV software. I have also restored my Apple TV to factory settings and the same issues keep happening. Is anyone else having this issue????

Try disabling Home Share your iMac and your Apple TV, returns again to enable sharing home of both devices, bye

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IPad Home Sharing Sorting Issues

Hey all,
I've finally got around to configuring my server and iPad to run Home Sharing so tha I can stream TV shows to my iPad.
Simple enough.
I do have one issue however.
Any TV shows that I have ripped from DVD to my iTunes library will not sort by episode on the iPad in Home Sharing. They sort alphabetically. In iTunes they are sorted by episode.
The shows that I have purchased via iTunes DO sort by episode in Home Sharing.
Is there some magic setting that I can change to sort all of my ripped TV Shows in Home Sharing by episode? I've looked at the info for both ripped and iTunes purchased TV shows, and I cannot see any difference that would cause them to sort differently.
Any help is appreciated.

I have this same issue. The discussion here https://discussions.apple.com/message/16395204#16395204 indicates that it may have something to do with the information under the "Sorting" tab when you get info on the indiviual shows (⌘+i).
I am going to give it a try tonight as this has been driving me mad! Trying to watch THe Walking Dead on my iPad (since no one else int he house wants or should watch it) has been insane.

ITunes 10.5.2.11 Home Sharing, 2 issues....

First off, The Facts:
I am trying to transfer songs between 2 PC laptops, both updated with the latest iTunes version 10.5.2.11.
Both laptops have Home Sharing enabled, both are logged in to the same iTunes account, on the same wireless network, and both are authorized to access that ONE iTunes account.
Issue 1: I logged both computers onto my iTunes account, trying to move all the songs from my iTunes account on my old laptop (Windows Vista) onto the same iTunes account on my new laptop (Windows 7). The songs I have purchased on iTunes do show up on my new laptop, but I have about 400 songs that I imported onto my iTunes account from CD's, so I'm trying to get these songs transfered from the old computer to the new one. I have Home Sharing enabled, and on the new laptop, my full iTunes library from my old computer shows up as "Owner's Library" under the "Shared." tab on the left-hand side. I open "Owner's Library," and all the tracks do show up, I have "Show: Items NOT in my Library" selected, and all songs are check-marked. When I click "Import," however, it only imports ONE SONG at a time. I must click on each song and import it individualy. There HAS to be a way to simply import ALL of them at the same time, since they are all selected with check-marks.
Issue 2: On the iTunes on my new computer, I created "smart playlists" for each artist I have music for, and each is set up to automatically place songs from that artist into that playlist. When I do import songs from my old computer (which were imported onto my iTunes account from CD's I already owned), they already have the track, album and artist info, but they get loaded into the default "Recently Added" playlist, rather than going into the smart playlists I created for them to go into. How can I force the songs I'm transferring from my old laptop to automatically go into my pre-made smart playlists right when I import them onto my new laptop, via the "Home Sharing" feature?

I had the same problem, but with an earlier version of iTunes, but when I upgraded it the problem solved automatically

How I fixed my Home Sharing iTunes Issue

I had a very old version of I Tunes running on a Windows XP laptop.
I upgraded my Iphone to IOS 7 today, my Apple TV too and decided to refresh my version of ITunes on my laptop to make sure it'd all still be compatible with IOS 7. Everything stopped connecting to Home Sharing....
Here's how it wasn't fixed....
Degrading the iTunes version
Rolling back to a restore point
Repairing the installation of Itunes
Doing crazy stuff on IPV6 to my network
Here's how it was fixed....
Uninstall iTunes
Remove all traces of Apple software from your PC
RESTART
Go to Apple website and install the latest version of ITunes from scratch
DO NOT cut any of these steps out, if you do, it won't work. If you do, it will fix your problem, guaranteed!
Good luck
MT

bump
I was having trouble seeing my Nano 2nd in iTunes and was afraid to do this step; but it works. My Nano was updated to version 1.1.1 and now everything seems to work perfectly. Keep in mind you will lose everything that is stored on your Nano when you format it.
Gateway 733mhz Windows XP

Apple TV 3 home sharing connection issue.

Every time I turn my Apple TV on it is unable to connect to the iTunes library on my computer. My computer is on the same wireless network with iTunes open. The only way I can get it to reconnect is to turn off home sharing on the Apple TV and then turn it back on again. It is then able to reconnect.
I am running the latest software version on the ATV.

For me, it looks more and more a problem with my iMac waking up from sleep and not so much a problem with the Apple TV.
With Snow Leopard wireless wake on lan was working. With Mountain Lion, this is not working anymore. I tried several things (restart Airport Extreme, SMC en PRAM reset, configuring WiFi connection again, ...) but I can't get wireless wake on lan to work. And because my iMac won't wake up from sleep, the Apple TV can't reach the iTunes library.
I have the same problem when I start the Remote app on my iPhone: because the iMac is sleeping, it can't reach the iTunes library. When I go upstairs and wake my iMac, Remote can access the library.

Home Sharing Streaming with Apple TV Network problem - Solution

Was not able to stream video from my library in iTunes, able to select, but would not stream to play, I tried everything in the Apple Support Community
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AppleTV 3 generation v5.2
Linksys E2500 Linksys
WET610N Dual-Band Wireless-N Gaming and Video Adapter (connects to pc) or Access Point
I change the settings for WMM on the Linksys WET610N.
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Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM), previously known as Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME), is a subset of the 802.11e wireless LAN (WLAN) specification that enhances quality of service (QoS) on a network by prioritizing data packets according to four categories. Network administrators can change priority levels as they see fit. Ranging from highest priority to lowest, these categories are:
Voice: Giving voice packets the highest priority enables concurrent Voice over IP (VoIP) calls with minimal latency and the highest quality possible.
Video: By placing video packets in the second tier, WMM prioritizes it over all other data traffic and enables support for three to four standard definition TV (SDTV) streams or one high definition TV (HDTV) stream on a WLAN.
Best effort: Best effort data packets consist of those originating from legacy devices or from applications or devices that lack QoS standards.
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http://homekb.cisco.com/Cisco2/ukp.aspx?pid=80&app=vw&vw=1&login=1&json=1&docid= d7c38a64b9024a82a0719aa99ef69177_17599.xml
Under Wireless    go to WMM
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Min. Size of Packets in Aggregation: 10
ADDBA Timeout: 0
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CW min for STA: 7
CW max for STA: 15
AIFSN for STA:
TXOP for STA:
CW min for AP: 7
CW max for AP: 15
AIFSN for AP:
TXOP for AP:
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Update
Also disable this feature on your router, the data packets are not being read correctly. Temporally while Apple figures this out.
Disabling WMM will just tell your router to stop regulating it, giving every bit of data transfer the same priority. Most routers come with it disabled by default, but some have it enabled by default as well.
http://homekb.cisco.com/Cisco2/ukp.aspx?vw=1&docid=90117747783a4c4f90599c2d28574daf_17223.xml&pid=80&respid=0&snid=2&dispid=0&cpage=search

Performance issues home sharing with Apple TV2 from Mountain Lion Server

I have a Mac Mini which I have just upgraded to Mountain Lion Server from Snow Leopard Server.
I have noticed that the performance of Streaming a film using Home Sharing to an Apple TV2 has degraded compared to the Snow Leopard setup. In fact the film halts a number of times during play back which is not ideal.
I have tested the network between the 2 devices and cannot find a fault.
Has anyone come across this problem before.
Are there any diagnostic tools I can use to measure the home sharing streaming service to the AppleTV2 device.
Any help much appreciated

Well, I tried a few other things and one worked but again just the first time I tried connecting to the desktop PC with iTunes. I flashed my router with the latest update and the ATV2 could see the iTunes library and I was able to play media. Later in the day I was going to show off to my daughter that I had fixed it and, to my dismay, no go. I tried opening the suggested ports but no luck.
I then tried loading iTunes on a Win7 laptop and it works perfectly with the ATV2. Both the laptop and the ATV2 are connected to the router wirelessly while the Desktop is connected to the router by Ethernet. Not sure if this is part of the issue as it sounds like this didn't work for others. The only other difference between the laptop and desktop is that the desktop has Win7 SP1 loaded while the laptop does not; now I'm scarred to load it though I don't think that's the issue. All in all, a very vexing situation. Hopefully Apple comes up with a solution soon.

Home Sharing Loading Forever and Windows 8

So I thought I'd leave this here since I scoured this site via Google for answers and couldn't find anything that helped.
I could not get iTunes Home Sharing to work on my Windows 8 PC (64-bit) in the last few months. My AppleTV would just sit there and attempt to load the video file forever, making very little progress (if any). I knew the movies played previously and if I loaded them on my wife's MacBook Pro, they'd play fine over AirPlay (something my Windows 8 PC couldn't do either). The AppleTV could see my Home Share (via the Computers app) and my iTunes could see my AppleTV (the airplay icon was visible). My AppleTV could also stream just fine from Netflix, the iTunes Store, and it could do mirroring from iPhones and a MacBook just fine as well. I tried turning Home Sharing on and off. I did both kinds of resets (settings and factory). I unplugged it form the wall. Still no luck. From all this, I could tell my AppleTV was not the issue.
I disabled Windows Firewall (after attempting to clear every possible port iTunes might use through the rules). I added every process to Windows Defender. I disabled IPv6 via Network Settings and the Registry. I made sure Bonjour was enabled (after disabling it and re-enabling it). I checked that iTunes was completely updated (along with the AppleTV). I had every update for Windows 8 installed. I tried older versions of iTunes without luck. I tried turning on and off Home Sharing. I changed the name of my computer. I changed the name of my iTunes library.
I went back to every hardware change I'd made recently. I tried my older wifi usb dongle. No luck. I zeroed in on my new ASUS RT-AC56U router as a possible culprit. I updated its firmware. I changed the network names. I disabled any QoS it may have had running along with any firewalls or protections. I even tried a custom Merlin firmware that others here had suggested made everything work again. I tried running on 2.4 GHz and then 5 GHz, then with one disabled and then the other. I eventually got a family member to let me borrow an Apple Airport Extreme to test with and I still couldn't get any Home Sharing streaming to work. At that point, I had pretty much ruled out any networking hardware as the cause.
So that left something still causing hangups on my Windows 8 PC. It really left me with no other choice aside from attempting a clean install of Windows. All my music, iTunes movies, and iTunes TV shows were on separate hard drives so I bit the bullet and wiped my system drive clean. However, it still wasn't working upon re-installing Windows 8 and the newest version of iTunes.
The only thing I could figure at this point was that I had upgraded to Windows 8 (from 7) sometime last fall. So maybe Windows 8 itself was the culprit? I knew that Home Sharing was working when I first installed Windows 8. I can't recall exactly when nothing would play but I definitely know that I was able to do Home Sharing streaming initially. But it did get progressively worse since then. Movies would play for half their length and then stop to load. Eventually, nothing would load. But when I tried previous versions of iTunes, I still couldn't get Home Sharing to work. So something deep in Windows 8 had changed that iTunes hasn't adjusted for yet and was preventing Home Sharing from working.
So I did the last thing available to me: I dug out an old copy of Windows 7 and did a wipe and clean install. Lo and behold: Home Sharing is working right off the bat. Very short load times, I could skip ahead, Airplay and Home Sharing working as intended. I went back and re-added everything piece by piece to make sure none of them were going to set me back with video playback.
-Switched out the Airport Extreme for my own router (after setting it up like new...again). My test videos still played! Check.
-Went back to my newer USB wifi dongle. Check.
-Added more non-HD videos to the Home Share. Check.
-Added 720p HD videos to the Home Share. Check.
-Added 1080p videos to the Home Share. Check.
-Windows Firewall is currently active but I'm still Home Sharing just fine.
I'm back up and running on Windows 7 and Home Sharing is working just like I remembered it. I know this isn't much solace to anyone encountering this and trying every fix imaginable from Google. I know I didn't want to flatten and re-install my OS (in fact, downgrading it) to get it working. But something with how recent iTunes or Windows updates are interacting were just completely ruining my home watching experience. It's just so bizarre that it worked in Windows 8 at first but then progressively got worse. And a fresh install of Windows 8 and iTunes didn't set it back to the way it was. It has to be some recent changes between the two that interfered with the process and that neither company has addressed it yet.
I know this will probably get buried among the thousands of other help threads but I hope it does manage to assist someone in getting a better handle on this problem should they face it. And maybe someone from Apple will take another look at Home Sharing in iTunes for Windows 8.

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Home sharing steam cuts out when I move around house from one Airport router area to another

Happens with iphones, ipad or macbooks. I have 3 Airport routers, Mac Mini with itunes library and home sharing enabled and working fine on all devices. If I move around the house I lose my Home Sharing stream. When I try to reconnect I am told I am "unble to connect to the resources". If I switch the shared library to the local device and then switch back to the Mac Mini library it reconnects and streams. If I move again to another area of the house I lose the stream again. Please help.

I never noticed these issues prior to upgrading to Yosemite.
That is because you didn't have them before you downgraded to Yosemite.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Go back to your older OS.. it is much better.. think of it as an upgrade.
Wait until apple debug the latest greatest OS and the beta testers, early users have all bleed out.. since they live on the bleed edge of life.
You can try a clean install.. that can help.. but IMHO it is still not worth the effort until you buy a new laptop.
Just look at the discussion area for huge amount of angst since Yosemite arrived.. especially with wireless dropouts.
As a hint of where things are going wrong start here.
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AWDL
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6693499
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IOS4.3 Home Sharing - Odd

Hi guys.
I have 4.3 on my iPhone, and running itunes 10.2.1
I have read through config details for iTunes home share and have set everything up. I can access the share through the ipod on my iphone, but not all content is shared. When I go to 'video' and scroll down to TV SHOWS I am only seeing 8 out of 190+ epdisodes of TV Shows I have in my iTunes library. To make matters worse the 8 that I can see are for Ms Bumpt so I have no desire to watch them anyway! Also, the episodes are out of order, not filed under each show etc.
All Movies that I have in Itunes are showing, and I think that all music is too, however I have too much content to be able to validate each track...
I would appreciate any suggestions, or failing that even validation that someone else has a similar problem!
Thanks heaps.

I've identified the problem with the missing TV shows.
It seems the 'Artist' field must be tagged in iTunes. If it's blank the episode won't appear on your iOS device.
So if you fill in all the Artist fields then the shows will magically appear... weird huh?
I've waited so long for this home sharing/streaming feature - it's nice but I'm still unimpressed because it seems half-baked.
- TV episodes are listed in some funky order I just can't comprehend.
- the blue watched/unwatched indicator in iTunes isn't carried over to the iOS device so you can't tell whether you've already watched an episode.
- you must scroll through all your Movies on the iOS device before you can see your TV Shows, Music Videos or Podcasts - painful.

PC Falls Asleep During Home Sharing

Home sharing is working fine on my girlfriend's Sony Vaio laptop running on Windows 7 and the most recent iTunes update. However, after a while, the laptop falls asleep and whatever is being streamed cuts off. This doesn't happen on my Mac, which has the "wake for network access" box checked. Is there something similar I need to do for a PC to keep my home sharing streams from cutting off when the PC goes to sleep?

Yes there is something you do to the PC, but is it your MAC that is shutting off?

I am having major Home Sharing issues (disrupting WiFi)

Have done a lot of research on the particular issues Im having and can only find discussions on problems slightly tangential to mine.
Beginning about a week ago whenever I would use home sharing on my iPad or iPhone (streaming through my Mac Pro desktop an an Airport Extreme) the file I would be playing would pause erratically and then start up again. It would get really bad if I listened to one of the larger files (I download radio show podcasts) and try to jump to the middle of the program - every time the file would just pause and not play and then jump to the next file on the playlist and just hang.
Furthermore, it totally screws up my WiFi....I would have to reset my extreme to get the signal to stop behaving erratically. I read through tons of posts and tried earlier versions of airport software, resetting my wifi settings, reste my router etc...but all to no avail.
Im a little surprised that Im the only one having this issue since it seems so basic....I turn on home sharing, start using it and bam -- all these wifi issues just start happening.
Anyone able to point me in the right direction for a solution? Because it is driving me crazy....

The3rdMan wrote:
Anyone able to point me in the right direction for a solution?
you could be suffering from wireless interference.
perhaps one of your neighbor's wireless networks is interfering with yours. download iStumbler and note the channels other networks in the vicinity are broadcasting on.
change the channel your network is using as far away as possible from those.

Why won't some of my MP4s stream to Apple TV (or iPad) via Home Sharing?

Hi all. I've been converting my DVDs, HD-DVDs, and Blu-rays to MP4, using MakeMKV and then Handbrake 0.9.9.5530 64-bit for encoding. I have been intending to play the files on my iPad, both transferring to the device and streaming via Home Sharing. I also want stream these via Apple TV (3rd gen, Model A1427) in the house via Home Sharing.
All the files sourced from HD-DVDs & Blu-rays seem to work fine. However, more than half the DVDs I've converted -- using the same Handbrake preset I've been using for the BRs -- will not play back on the iPad, or streamed to the iPad, or streamed to Apple TV. The files will copy to the iPad, but for both device playback and streaming, I get the error message "The operation could not be completed." On Apple TV, it's "An error occurred loading this content, try again later."
The files will play in iTunes for Windows, and they will play in VLC. (Files bought from the iTunes Store also stream fine.) There is no metadata in these files, but I am manually adding a poster image once I drop them into iTunes.
It seems pretty clear that this is a problem with the file itself, but since the only issues I'm having involve streaming, I reset my router for good measure. I restarted the Apple TV and quit all the apps on my iPad before restarting it, too. I've also made sure the firmware on all devices is up to date. None of that had an effect.
I compared a DVD rip (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adeventure) to a BR rip (Independence Day). Both feature exactly the same bitrates & sample rates for video and audio -- according to the Windows Properties -> Details tab, Data rate is 1499kbps, Total bitrate 1659, 23 frames/second, 2 stereo audio channels at 48KHz. The only difference is the BR frame size is larger (1920x812), and of course the run times & file sizes are different. But the bigger file plays fine, and a lot of these smaller files do not.
MP4s from DVDs that will stream: Toy Story, Dead Again, Clue, School of Rock.
MP4s from DVDs that won't stream: Ocean's Eleven, Escape from New York, Galaxy Quest, Robocop (Criterion). Shaun of the Dead, Team America World Police
Again, these were all converted on the same PC with the same software and same settings. If there's a common thread among the source material of the MP4s that will play and won't play, I don't know what it is, but I figured it would not hurt to list it.
My Handbrake settings are based on Handbrake's AppleTV 2 preset, with the following modifications:
Avg Bitrate 1500, 2-pass, no turbo 1st pass
Framerate: 30, Peak
Optimize:
x264 Preset: Very Slow
H.264 Profile: High
H.264 Level: 3.1
Container is MP4, as is the file extension. (Since dragged-and-dropped MKV files default to M4V in Handbrake, I select MKV then re-select MP4 from the Container drop-down before adding to Handbrake's queue.)
Someone suggested I simply change the file extension to M4V, so I tried it, but that did not fool any of the stream devices.
I have been testing the output MP4 files on my PC as I go, and once they played fine in VLC after Handbrake, I have been deleting the MKV files. I can go back and rip them all again if I have to (these are all from DVDs I personally own), but obviously I'd rather not do that! So my questions now are:
- Could this be related to the audio stream? I've been opting for the DD 3/2.1 stream whenever possible when ripping, and letting Handbrake mix it down.
- If I run the MP4s through Handbrake a second time with a different setting, will it do a pass-through convert instead of a full re-encode? (I don't want to shrink the video if only the audio needs attention.) If so, which setting should that be?
- Is there a way to repair these MP4 files without completely starting over with a fresh MKV?
- If I have to start from scratch, should I go with Constant Quality over Average Bitrate?
Hopefully someone can spot my issue based on this description. I'm happy to send you my Handbrake settings as a .plist file and offer any other info I can, as I'm stumped as to what went wrong. There has to be a logical reason. Thanks!

I've continued tests on different films, and tried my entire collection. I've found about two dozen that will play fine on the PC, but will not cooperate when streamed to either Apple TV or my iPad. I tried several more tests with the audio, and that turned out not to be a factor -- I could not replicate that on another test.
I wonder if something in the header of these files is corrupted or a flag is set incorrectly or something along those lines, as the data appears to be fine -- it's just not "handshaking" with my streaming hardware and/or the Apple Home Sharing code that powers it.
Is there any way for me to "scrub" these files and amend their headers, or get into the file and tinker with that info by hand?

I SET UP THE HOME SHARING ON MY COMPUTER, AND i CAN STREAM MY PHOTOS AND SEE ALL THE VIDEOS AND LISTEN SONGS IN MY ITUNES, BUT CAN NOT DO HOME SHARING, ON THE TV, ALWAYS SHOWS "TURN ON HOME SHARING ON YOUR OMPUTER WITH YOUR ID WHICH I DID BUT NOTHING HELP

I just bought my apple tv yesterday and SET UP THE HOME SHARING ON MY COMPUTER, I CAN STREAM MY PHOTOS AND SEE ALL THE VIDEOS AND LISTEN SONGS IN MY ITUNES, BUT CAN NOT DO HOME SHARING, ON THE TV, ALWAYS SHOWS "TURN ON HOME SHARING ON YOUR OMPUTER WITH YOUR ID WHICH I DID BUT NOTHING HAPPEN. WHAT'S WRONG? WHAT SHALL I DO NOW?

I have found with AppleTV that it is the IPV6 on the computer you want to access is the problem. The issue is that Homegroup on Win 7 or Win 8 requires IPV6 to work, but AppleTV won't work with IPV6. (So maybe double check you have IPV6 turned off)
So you have to make a choice - Homegroup or AppleTV.... but you can't have both, until Apple brings ATV up to date. (crazy that it does not recognise IPV6 - c'mon Apple!)
You can set up sharing individually in Win 7 or 8 and have the ATV access files that way.
Having said that, there is always the exception.. I have an old HP home server running Win8 and it services ATV - but is part of the Homegroup... have no idea why it works on both, but no other machine on the home network will talk to both ATV and Homegroup at the same time!

Home Sharing Issues iOS6

I'm having an issue it seems with Home Sharing on my iPhone 5 after recently upgrading to iOS6 v6.1.2. My network setup is as follows: I have a 1TB TimeCapsule which is my WiFi access point in addition to storing my iTunes library. My iMac is connected to the TC via Ethernet. Wirelessly I have two Windows-based laptops, ATV (2nd gen), an iPad2, a BlackBerry Torch, iPhone 4S and iPhone5. Until recently, all of my Apple devices were able to access my iTunes library over the WiFi using Home Sharing. As of now, only my ATV and iPad2 are able to. When I try to connect with the iPhones, I get an error stating "Cannot Connect to Media Library" about halfway through the connection attempt (little progress circle fills in halfway then stops). My version of iTunes is 11.0.2.
I have tried resetting everything on the entire network including my cable modem, the TimeCapsule (upgraded to latest firmware), even going so far as to do a restore on the iPhone 5 in an effort to get Home Sharing working again. Nothing I have tried has worked. I've siged out of Home Sharing on the iMac and all devices...rebooted...no change. The option to select my shared library is seen in the iPhone 5 but it just won't connect. This is extremely frustrating as I often have my iPhone streaming from my iTunes library while I'm in other areas of the house. For now I've resorted to using Pandora but would really like to have access to my music library.
Is anyone else having this or very similar issues? I see several posts about Home Sharing but most are older and don't seem specific to the iPhone 5 or iOS 6...regardless, the suggestions in any of those posts didn't solve the problem either.

I am having the same issue. Same hardware, same OS, same circle stopping halfway through. When I do get it to connect it doesn't last forever. I ran an experiment and found that the connection drops when I try to use my bluetooth speaker. If I am streaming from Pandora the connection is fine, no drop. But apparently it doesn't play nice with the shared library connection? Does bluetooth interfere with wifi?
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