Is It Possible To Restrict Home Sharing Certain Content ?

Hi - Just bought apple TV and works great. However I am a little dissapointed that there doesn't seem a way to limit or exclude certain conetent from being home shared. I have some podcasts that have either excplicit language used in them, and the cover graphics for them are also quite grown up. I'd rather these didn't get shared to our family TV for my children to access.
For example some of these podcasts have the F word in the tilte. they are actually just comesy podcasts, but nevertheless its not ideal when the cover art for these podcasts scrolls through main Apple TV home screen for podcasts automatically - and are seen by my kids. Is there a way to exclude these podcasts from being Home Shared ?- and for that matter any specific playlist (eg music with adult content or lyrics)?
It appears to be all or nothing ? Sureley Apple would provide more granular control of what is home shared?

Ok thank you. So itunes needs to be open for both people at the same time in order to share? I used to use homeshare when i was in a flatshare and could access libraries even if my flatmates were not in and their computers turned off so was hoping that it would also work on separate log-ins.
And given the above out only option would be for me to import the songs i want into my library using the source folder as the same that he stores his music in on the hard-drive?

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"Is it possible to use home sharing between two users on the same computer?"
No. Home sharing is used to connect two running instances of iTunes across a network. When you switch users on the computer all applications running on the other profile are suspended.
You can however share your respective media folders so that they are visible in either profile and then copy over any content that you want, or you could create a single joint library which you use when either user is logged in.
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Possible, or is Home Sharing brain dead?

iMac with Apple Lossless music library is on same Ethernet as AirPort. iMac and iPad both signed in to me.com. Home Sharing enabled all around via same me.com account.
For some reason, iPad cannot see iMac's shared music; the path is iMac->Ethernet->Airport->iPad. Is this a scenario Apple didn't think of, or am I missing a setup step?
Thanks.

my Macs are hardwired to my time capsule - only my iDevices and a couple of airport express units connect to the network wirelessly. my Ipad can connect to my Mini's library without difficulty.
the setup has been thought of and does work !
you might want to check the following support articles for pointers:
iOS: Setting up Home Sharing on your device
Troubleshooting Home sharing

Home sharing missing content and messes thing up

I use iTunes Home Sharing on my network. I have a Mac Mini that has my iTunes Library. Home Sharing is turned on with my Apple ID. When I want to stream a movie or tv show to my iPad, a lot of them are missing in the home sharing menu in the Video App. Even movies and tv shows I purchases in iTunes store. Also a lot of artwork is messed up (wrong picture with wrong movie).
So it is buggy....I aready tried turning home sharing off and on again, but that didn't help.
I have this on my iPad and iPhone. On my Apple TV, however, all content is ordered as it should be. There it works perfect.
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Have you tried quitting iTunes, restarting the Mac and then restart the iPad? This may reset everything.
Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.
Reboot the Mac and launch iTunes again.

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I have tries to sync them separately and it sort of works when it comes to contacts, apps etc but I want my playlist t be the same and can't seem to get that correct.
Thanks in advance

maybe you could try Evernote (available in APPSTORE) to keep track of your reminders. You could use built-in contacts to save your customers contact though or if you are not satisfied enough with it, search in appstore for everything you need, there's plenty of 'em.

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Multiple iTunes/Apple ID's - Home Sharing

My wife and I each have our own Apple ID's (on the same MobileMe family plan). As far as I can tell though, there's no way for us to use the AppleTV with them? Or for that matter, no matter Apple product we use, we're limited to half our stuff. I don't understand how anyone can use more than one Apple ID in a household? It kinda kills the point of it, if I'm reading this correctly.

You are fine. Make sure all computers are authorised to play content from all the iTunes accounts you are using. Choose one account to be the one you use for registering Home Sharing. Content purchased under any of the accounts will be playable on the Apple TV. See here for details
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4363

Can't wake Lion over wifi (or ethernet) using iPad and home sharing.

I've upgraded to Lion and everything's fine apart from one problem: using my iPad to access home shared iTunes content on my mac no longer works when my mac is asleep.
That's a change in behaviour from Snow Leopard; I used to be able to sleep my mac and then wake it over wifi using either my iPad or iPhone to access all of my home shared libraries. The mac screen used to light up for ten seconds and then go dark again, but it served me the files.
Lion seems to go into a deeper sleep which it can't be woken from. If I attempt to wake my mac from my iPad within about ten minutes of putting my mac to sleep then home sharing seems to work and lets me use the home share libraries, but if I leave it any longer than that then the mac seems to fall into a coma and can't be woken. The weird thing is that I still see a "shared library" folder on my iPad, but when I click on it nothing happens. I think my Time Capsule is listening for wifi access and issuing the magic packet to the mac, but the mac just ain't listening.
I'm using a Time Capsule in bridge mode from an ADSL modem and I've accepted a TC firmware update last week and I'm on lion 10.7.3. I've tried using Ethernet to connect the mac to the TC (and temporarily disabled the wifi connection) but that still doesn't work. Also, note I'm NOT suffering from the problem that 10.7.3 seems to be giving a few other people - my mac reconnects to my wifi just fine when I wake it up manually. For the record, This was an upgrade, so there's still a tick in "wake on network" in power settings and home sharing on iTunes is still configured the same as it was before.
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Jon

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The reworked release of the Combo came available the 2-nd or 3-rd of Feb, if you downloaded 10.7.3 complete after that date it will be OK already, no need to instal the Combo. But you can see the exact number of 10.7.3 in System Information/ Software panel: it should be 11D50b.....
fzahn:
I understand, I have TC and Extreme also, no need to set anything. And indeed I understand that it may be important for (as it is for me),
BUT even if it worked after you replaced the kext, I advise strongly not to read in an old kext over a new one, that may give other issues (you observed one already: Airdrop)... I hope you backed up the Lion one... for example such "replacing" was done in one (lousy) tool called TrimEnabler (to install Trim on a non-Apple SSD in the SnowLeopard OS): it replaced the whole kext. I read that there is a new version for Lion that just replaces the text piece that regards the identification for the Apple SSD's.... I do not dare to use such methods.... I advise to read the kext and compare the two (SL and Lion) and perhaps find a way to just replace the one string that is different (be sure it is precisely the same lenth in caracters)... BTW: after every update of Lion you have to do it again probably. Keep searching for a better way to solve your problem.
Did you do the firmware update of the TC and Extreme already?
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ITunes and Windows 8 Home Sharing (Possible Fix)

If this fix has been posted elsewhere then I apologize, but I wanted to share what I stumbled on as a possible for for iTunes Home Sharing and Windows 8. I did a lot of port forwarding, both on my router and my Norton firewall, but nothing seemed to help. After a few minutes my Apple TV and iOS devices would stop seeing my iTunes library. The only way to fix it was to reboot the router.
On a whim I looked in my Device Manager and found under Network Adapters a device called Microsoft Kernel Debug Network Adapter. I disabled this, rebooted my computer, and have since no issues with Home Sharing. It's only been a few hours, but that is the longest I've gone since installing Windows 8. I'll look in the morning to see if it still works.
So give this method a try and see what happens. Hopefully it will fix your problems.

Here are the three steps I took to get Home Sharing working successfully on Apple TV. This has worked for the better part of a week so hopefully it will work well for others.
In your software firewall create two new Inbound Rules. Open port 3689 (TCP) and port 5353 (UDP) to All Programs.
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On your Apple TV change when it goes to sleep. I changed mine to 10 hours.
This seems to keep the connection alive. On occassion it will look like it gets stuck loading, but just let it go. At some point it wil kick on. If you generates a connection error just try loading the media again and it should start.

HT2688 How do I restrict access to *specific* songs (or give access to a specific playlist) in Home Sharing

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2688?
This article describes two different things:
Music Sharing and
Home Sharing
Music Sharing allows you to select playlist(s) to share, and allows you to play the song from another device. It does *not* allow you to transfer the song to another device.
Home Sharing allows you to share your ENTIRE music library and transfer the songs to another device. It does not allow you to restrict the share to a specific playlist(s).
Try it. You can set a password and check the boxes to restrict your playlists, but that only restricts while Home Sharing is turned off. EVERY file is accessible when you have Home Sharing running.
I have a bunch of music I don't want my kids listening to. I've created a playlist for them, and I want them to be able to load their ipods with music from that list without accessing other music. Any ideas?

say suppose i have no control over wcf client. so i want to do it at client side. so what is your suggestion. thanks
If you can't implement role based secuirty on the client-side, the you may want to look at what is in the link.
http://blog.clauskonrad.net/2010/04/wcf-restrict-which-clients-can-call.html

Is it possible to use two separate Apple IDs in Home Sharing?

My wife and I each have an Apple ID that we have used in the past, pre-iTunes 9, for our own individual iTunes libraries. We would like to do Home Sharing, but it seems like we would have to go down to a shared Apple ID that wouldn't be either of the ones we already have. Is it possible that we can "sync" our two IDs with a new ID for Home Sharing so that we can still keep our separate identities, but still be able to Home Share? I figure that we could create a new ID and just authorize things from our old IDs, but we really don't want to do that. Any suggestions or answers? Thanks in advance for your help and sorry if this was asked before.

I figure that we could create a new ID
Don't do that.
Make sure both computers are authorized for both iTunes accounts and use the same account (either one, it doesn't matter) to turn on Home Sharing.

Pathetic Apple TV - no home sharing possible? Can connect mac but not ipad or iphone?

Pathetic apple tv cannot do mirror airplay with iphone and ipad , which was possible before ???
Miserable apple tv is not able to do home sharing and has frustrated me millions of times with turn on already on home sharing??
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Any chance I can replace or return this waste of money apple tv???
APPLE SUPPORT STAFF SHAME ON YOU I READ THREADS AND THREADS AND NO SOLUTION POSTED OR QUESTION ANSWERED AT ALL

this is a user helping user forum
we are users like you not apple support staff
use feedback if you want apple directly
http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html
home sharing is appletv being able to access media from the shared lib of a computer with itunes
airplay is using appletv as audio and or video output for ios and osx devices which support airplay
what is it that you have problems with you seem to mix the terms

Is it possible to set up home sharing with my daughter's laptop - she lives in a different part of the country?

is it possible to set up home sharing with my daughter's laptop - she lives in a different part of the country?

Unfortunately, no. Home sharing only applies to devices sharing the same Wifi network.
iTunes Match is an alternative to look into.
Apple - iTunes - Match

HT3819 Isn't the five computer limit for home sharing restrictive given the many devices one household may have?

Isn't the five computer limit for home sharing restrictive given the many devices one household may have?

It is only restrictive if you have more than 5 computers.
Otherwise it is not restrictive at all.
devices do not count, only computers.
You have more than 5 computers on the same home network.

My daughter lives overseas and would like to use home sharing. Is it possible?

My daughter lives overseas and would like to use home sharing. Is it possible?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
For homesharing to work, all devices need to be on the same network.

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