ITunes 11 home sharing with iPhone not quite working
This morning I updated iTunes 11 to the newly released iTunes 11.1. I never could get home sharing to work with my iPhone 3GS (iOS 6.0.1). It would start to download the library information and then just stop. I used home sharing all the time so I was eagerly waiting for the fix many people seemed to need.
So...Now getting the library information seems to take a long time--5 minutes or so, but it does run to completion. But, my lists of Artists and Albums are incomplete. I haven't done a lot of testing but it seems that all of my tracks are listed under Songs, and all of the references in my Playlists open the correct tracks. For example, Charlie Musselwhite is not listed under Artists. His album One Night in America is not listed under Albums, but the song Blues Overtook Me is listed under songs and appears in the Playlists where it belongs and clicking it there plays the correct song with the correct album artwork. Once I'm playing the song, I can switch from the artwork to the album list and all the album's songs are there and are playable.
I haven't tested every song, but I've done enough to believe that all my tracks are accessible, even though only about 10% of the albums and artists are listed properly.
BTW: I believe that the Album and Artist lists are the ones I would get if I changed iTunes to share only selected playlists, but I haven't bothered to prove this.
What was a prohibitive problem has been made into a minor annoyance, but in case anyone form Apple reads this, let me say this. I have been an Apple user and fan from long before Apple made the first iPod or iMac, but I am incrasingly disappointed with the dumb things Apple now releases. In the past I never thought twice about updating the the latest version of anything, because whatever Apple released worked, and if there were a few minor bugs, new software never, never, never went backwards.
Booooo, Apple.
From now on I will be letting others do your beta testing for you while I continue to use maps that get me where I want to go and applications that work as advertised without drawing me into spending hours getting back to where I was before an upgrade. The fact that it is no longer possible to revert to a previous, properly working version of iTunes has cemented my feeling that I will remain safely behind the leading edge.
just found it out after playing around to get itunes 11 to look like the older version go to view ( TOP LEFT )
and click on show sidebar and then click ON SHOW STATUS BAR ... Then go to file and sign out of home share and then sign in again ... thats it and your import and sttings and other boxs will reapear ...REMEMBER TO REPEAT THIS ON ALL COMPUTERS THAT ARE RUNNING ITUNES .........HOPE YA WIFE IS HAPPY ..MINE WAS ....
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