HT3819 Does Home Sharing count as part of my storage quota on iCloud?

I would like to be able to share my (very large) iTunes music library with my family. I have ripped my entire CD collection, and I'm sure many of the albums are not available on iTunes. Will Home Sharing use my iCloud storage quota? If I have to purchase extra storage in order to share the disks I've already purchased, then I will not be using Home Sharing. We used to be able to share CDs by...sharing CDs. No need to pay extra!

Home Sharing is between computers and devices on a local network, not iCloud, so it shouldn't affect that.
Understanding Home Sharing - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819

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HT3819 Does home sharing allow you to transfer music between libraries. For example, can i pull music from my daughters library onto mine ?

Does home sharing allow me to transfer music between libraries? Can my daughter, wife and I share music?

Hello matt811
If you are having issues with transferring music through Home Sharing, check out the following article that will assist with troubleshooting the issue. Also check out the other article that will give some alternatives to transferring media to a new computer.
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
-Norm G.

HT3819 does home sharing work with first geneartion ipad?

How can I set up home sharing?

Yes, you can use home sharing on the iPad 1.
See here for setup instructions: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4557

HT3819 why does home sharing leave the bar as soon as I click "done" after turning it on?

Why does home sharing disappear from the bar as soon as I hit "done" when ATTEMPTING to turn it on?
I have tried turning it off and when I turn it on again it appears in the bar when I am turning it on BUT DISAPPEARS as soon as I hit the "done" button.

Hello there Garry2,
Here is a little gem for troubleshooting Home Sharing in iTunes called Troubleshooting Home Sharing found here http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972.
I recommend starting at step 4:
4. Check your network connection
5. Check Firewall Settings
6. Quit and reopen apps and iTunes
7. Restart your network router
Cheers,
Sterling

Does home sharing allow me to share my iTunes library with other users on the same imac

Does home sharing allow me to share my iTunes library with other users on the same imac?

Apparently so (as long as each user operates out of a different Mac User account).
After setting up home sharing in the various different user accounts on the Mac, you need to have iTunes open in the account that you want to Home Share from.
Now use fast User Switching to get into the account that you want to Home Share to. Launch iTunes in there. The library in the other account should appear as shared for you.

Does home sharing allow my husband and I to share our itunes content? If so, how do we do that since it requires the use of the same Apple ID and password on each device to do so. His itunes is linked to his email and mine is linked to my email...

Does home sharing allow my husband and I to share our iTunes content? If so, how does this work? From what I've read to use home sharing the devices/computers all require the same Apple ID and password. My husbands iTunes is linked to his email/password and mine is my email/password. So if that's the case how to we go about sharing? God I hope that makes sense.

All apps are forever tied to the Apple ID that bought them. To stop your id from popping up, you need to delete the apps on his phone, and then repurchase them under his account.

Does home sharing only work if you're connected to the wi-fi?

Does home sharing only work if you're connected to the wi-fi? Im having very sporadic results with this. I thought Apple products worked. Home sharing is not working from my windows operating system to my iPhone 4S nor my iPad.

Hi ccvitality,
If you are having issues with Home Sharing between your Windows machine and your iOS devices, you may find the following article helpful:
Apple Support: Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2972
Regards,
- Brenden

Does Home Sharing Transfer Physical Files?

We set up a Mac Mini in the home simply to act as a music server, so my wife, kids and I can all have access to the same music. We chose a dedicated machine so that it always had iTunes open and running to allow access.
We are trying to avoid building up tons of files on our personal machines, rather, we want any iTunes purchase to go onto the Mini.
If we have a home share setup, and we purchase songs on a local machine, does home sharing physically move the files to the other machines on the home sharing if we set it up to automatically transfer new purchases?

Jason Browdy wrote:
does home sharing physically move the files to the other machines on the home sharing if we set it up to automatically transfer new purchases?
yes if you have the copy to ... when adding option enabled in iTunes > preferences > advanced.
i don't see the point of not copying the content because otherwise the original homeshared library would have to be constantly connected in order to play the content.

HT4557 Does home sharing work for apps? The instructions make it sound as though home sharing really only allows you to stream content.

Does home sharing work for apps? My young son received iPad mini for Christmas, and I don't want him to have to repurchase the games and other raps I'd already bought for him that are resident on my iPad.

does Home Sharing allow you to copy any item begtween libraries, including CDs you have ripped yourself
It certainly allows you to copy ripped CDs. Just did that myself last week.

How does home sharing work between your computers?

How does home sharing work between computers?

With any luck, the following document may be of some assistance:
Understanding Home Sharing

Does home sharing transfer EVERY song, or just purchased songs?

i am trying to find my songs. I have a desktop that i put itunes on, and all our ipods. I now have a laptop and installed itunes on that. (same account) I use the laptop mostly for my ipod touch, and the kids use the desktop for there ipod's. They purchase more songs than I do, but I want some of them songs.
Yes I know I could just go plug my ipod into the desktop and get purchased songs that way, but I want to be able to get them off my laptop. So I was trying the home sharing. I thought it was sucessful.
Does home sharing also transfer the songs from the library that were not purchased? Like the songs that were added from a cd? Cause those I can't seem to find on the laptop.

We are able to share imported CDs. In fact I got a USB record player so all my vinyl albums are being shared even though my 16 year old son doesn't seem too excited for my music :-)

HT3819 Understanding Home Sharing

My old computer crashed & I am attempting to download my entire itunes music library to my new computer under home sharing, but only part of the library downloaded. Any tips on how to get the rest?
Thank you!

That is an old screenshot. That was what the Music app looked like ages ago. Before iOS 6 and maybe even before that.
You want to look for the shared video library in the Videos App. Look at the top of the screen where the other tabs are in the Videos App.

HT202213 Does Home Sharing use up data allowance?

Hi,
Does Home Sharing use up broadband data allowance, or is the data streamed between iMac and Apple TV kept just within the home using the wireless router? I'm unsure as the info on Apple's site says homesharing requires an active internet connection.
All I really want to do is stream photos and music from my Mac to the HDTV as it has the sound system hooked up to it. I don't want to have to use iCloud for this, as I don't believe the satellite connection is consistent enough.
I'm concerned as I only have a 3GB monthly allowance, and am on satellite broadband, so service is a bit patchy.
Any thoughts/solutions greatly appreciated.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
NZAidan wrote:
Hi,
Does Home Sharing use up broadband data allowance
No

Does Home Sharing not work through a network extender?

Home sharing seems to cut out whenever I get into range of my network extender (Airport Express).
Here's my setup, it's pretty standard: Cable modem wired to Airport Extreme router, which is connected wirelessly to the MBP with my iTunes hard drive. All of this is in my living room.
I use the Airport Express to extend my network into the bedrooms.
Whenever I'm home sharing from my iTunes library on my iPhone, if I walk to my bedroom, it cuts out. It usually crashes the iPod app. If it doesn't completely crash it, I can get it to restart buffering if I walk back to the living room.
Does Home Sharing not work with wireless extenders? Do I have to change something in the set up?

However, when a device goes from being attached to one wireless device to another, there is often an interruption as the device must change the radio connection to the network. There is a brief period of no connectivity (a second or two)
Try starting the share while in your bedroom instead of the living room. I'll bet it works.
Makes sense - so it's a bug in the iPhone OS, that it's unable to recover from temporary interruptions to wifi connection?
However, I'm not so sure. Starting the share in the bedroom works as you suggest (since 4.3.2 - didn't under 4.3.1) - but as soon as you go back to the living room and the iPhone connects to a different base station the music stops playing. Note also that the shared library itself ceases to work. So for example you can't be in one room (on the extender) and add the shared library (without actually playing anything yet) then move to another room (on the base station) and play a track from the shared library. It just plays dead and you have to explicitly reload the shared library to get anything to play.
So is it maybe a bug also with iTunes that it can't keep up with a shared library client moving from one wifi station to another?
How do you report these things to the people that matter by the way?

Does family sharing mean all photos are backed up to one icloud account?

I am unclear what Family Sharing means.
Does family sharing mean all photos are backed up to one icloud account? Or simply that we can all see each other's streams. As it stands now, I understand we can share streams, without having family sharing enabled. Basically, I want to know if we can be logged into separate icloud accounts yet share photo and document storage as we currently can with dropbox.
I want to share photo storage and file backup with my wife. Currently, we both use her apple id to make store purchases and have our own icloud accounts. This solves some problems, but I still have old itunes purchases(grant you fairly old at this point) that I cannot access when I am logged into her id.
I realize we could both use our own icloud account and upgrade storage individually, but this fails the economy test. We have roughly 60 gb of family photo storage, so we would both need 200 gb plans.
we both have ipads and iphones. i simply want us each to be able to take photos and have them automatically saved to one storage solution.
Thanks in advance.
Shalom

The only way you can see the contents of an iCloud backup is to restore it to an iOS device. You could restore it to your new phone -- but that would mean you would first have to erase your new phone so I wouldn't recommend it unless you have nothing of value on the new phone. In theory you could backup the new phone, erase it, restore from the old and see what is there and copy the photos to a computer and then erase it again and restore it back from the new phone backup. I would emphasize that is at your own risk as restoring from backups do not always go as advertised. More info: iCloud: Restore your iOS device from iCloud

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