ITunes 6 Sharing not Working

After upgrading to iTunes 6 on a few machinnes the sharing of music between computers is not working. I have checked my settings and everything is fine. Any Ideas??

Try what is recommended by Henry B., "Sharing Music in iTunes w/ Airport Express" #1, 09:01am Sep 19, 2005 CDT. That worked for me (on a school network).

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Stumped. iTunes sharing not working at all on one of my 4 iMacs

I refreshed my main maxxed out BTO 27" iMac, and can't get itunes sharing to work.
I have 4 iMacs (2006,2009,2010,2013), 3 ipads (1,3,5) and 4 iphones (2x4,5,5s), last gen Apple TV, current gen Time Capsule. Everything is on latest SW updates.
I have my itunes library on the Time Capsule
Everything is wireless except my new BTO imac, which is connected to the TC via ethernet (previously my 2009 iMac was in this config and worked fine)
Using the ipads/iphones/Apple tv, I can hit the other shared libraries
The new imac doesn't showup on any of the other devices. I have homesharing and filesharing on in sys prefs and itunes, and itunes running but none of the devices see the new mac. Turned stuff off and on/rebooted all the devices etc, but stumped. Nothing shows up on any of the other devices, but they all see the other macs libraries fine.

Restarted the Mac and Time Capsule again, and it showed up.

ITunes Sharing not working on all Computers

Hi, I'm looking for some help with setting up home sharing between a 21" imac OSX 10.7.4, bought early this year, and a windows vista PC.
I've scoured the web looking for solutions before finally deciding to search for help here.
ok, the situation is that at the moment, I have a windows Vista PC which i use as a media centre for all my music, which i intend to share over the network to my imac, but for some reason, vista can see my imac's playlist, but the imac can't see the window's playlist. i'm also running a Buffalo Linkstation Pro Quad with itunes server running, whIch is also only visible on vista.
I've already set up static IPs for the imac, vista and NAS, but still to no avail. I've opened ports 3689 and 5353, and allowed access through the firewall on both norton 360(vista) and imac's firewall, and disabled windows firewall.
However, i've tested the home sharing connection on an ipad, and can only receive the imac's playlist, while the vista's playlist can't be detected.
This is all very puzzling to me, as it doesnt make any sense as to why the playlists aren't turning up, and worst still, there is no set pattern to the issues. Due to this, i cant pinpoint the exact kink in the chain. But to the best of my knowledge, i have done all i can to ensure an open connection between devices.
Oddly enough, itunes on my imac did manage to detect both the NAS itunes server and the Vista's playlist on one or two occasions, but eventually vanished never to return again. on both occasions, i was doing the exact same things as i did the other times i tried to configure itunes, except those other times failed to detect. I've run out of ideas.
PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME. YOUR HELP WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED as i use the imac for video editing and need the music libraries to be accesible.
Thank you!

Thanks for the reply. I checked and both the service and process are running.
One of the windows machines was away with my brother at college, and he informs me that iTunes sharing was working fine for him there. I can only assume that the problem is due to something with my router configuration. Any ideas?
power mac g4 400 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Itunes Sharing not working over wireless

I have three PC's both running the latest version of ITunes.
Desktop 1 is running Windows XP and connects directly into the Action Tec Router via a wired connection.
Laptop 1 is running Windows 7 and connects to the Action Tec router via a wireless connection.
Laptop 2 is running Windows Vista and connects to the Action Tec router via a wireless connection.
All PC's can connect on the Internet. The wireless connection uses WPA/PSK. Any firewalls are disabled.
Desktop 1 can see the Library of both Laptop 1 and Laptop 2. From Desktop 1, When I click the library of laptop 1 Itunes says "laptop1 library is not responding".
Laptop 1 and Laptop 2 do not see the library of either Desktop 1 or the other Laptop.
If I move Laptop 1 from a wireless connection to a wired connection, the sharing works fine.
Anyone know why the wireless is causing Itunes sharing to not work?
Thanks, Jim
Solved!
Go to Solution.

So this morning I was playing the Windows 7 laptop and decided to delete my windows wireless profile on the laptop called home and my existing home SSID on the Verizon router. I created a new SSID called boo with no security. I connected to that SSID and Itunes sharing worked between the desktop and laptop. I then added WPA2/PSK to the boo SSID and sharing still worked. Finally I went back to my original SSID called home and WPA2/PSK, recreated the home profile and Itunes sharing worked again.
I then went to the Windows Vista Laptop and without making any changes to it, Itunes sharing worked.
So in the end it seems deleting the current SSID configuration and rebuilding it on the verizon router cured the problem (for now).
Jim

ITunes sharing not working at all

I have been trying to set up a LAN so that I can play music from the computer upstairs via my laptop downstairs. At the moment the 2 machines are connected directly with an ethernet cable, so it's not a router problem (every thread I find on this topic blames this on routers).
My laptop is a MacBook running OSX 10.4.11, using the latest version of iTunes (8-something), and the computer is a PPC G3 running OSX 10.4.11, also on the latest version of iTunes (it updated this morning). The laptop can see the library on the computer, but not load it (error 3259) and keeps telling me to check firewall / ports. The firewalls on BOTH computers have been disabled, and the ports have been checked & are correct (3689). The G3 does not even show the iTunes library from the laptop in iTunes though!
I have tried scrapping the iTunes preferences files on both machines & restarting iTunes. They both seem to be able to find each other / open files through the 'network' feature in finder (although I had problems with that earlier), but iTunes sharing is not working at all.
What can I do? Some threads suggest problems with Bonjour or QuickTime, but I don't know if these are relevant at all. As others have commented: lots of threads on the net about this but no answers!

turns out you need to be sure the computers are connected before starting iTunes on either one for this to work.
I just got this working - through the router as well - with no problems at all following this method.
It doesn't mention this at all in apple's instructions.

ITunes Sharing Not Working After Years of Working Great

After many years of iTunes Home Sharing working great with an old Mac Mini and a large shared library of music and videos, I decided it was time to upgrade the system with a new Mac Mini (bought a few weeks ago) with a nice OWC external hard drive for the data.
I am now having problems sharing on all devices. On AppleTV it has trouble finding the shared library.
On another Mac in my home it shows the shared libary in iTunes, but when you click on it to use it it gets stuck on "Loading".
The only thing that solves the problem is for me to go to the iTunes computer and shut off and restart iTunes. That will then work for a period of time (not very long) and then we go back to the problem.
I have checked all the settings and nothing seems to be wrong.
I am using the latest versions of everything.
Any ideas?
David

Hi Roger,
Tell us what silly Belkin you have please.
If it has Ping Blocking then turn that Off.
If it has DOS (Denial of Service) Turn that Off.
Same with anything for SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection)
If this is Cable I can't see that "Too Far from the Exchange" is even relevant.
What Internet Speeds (UP and Down) are you getting ?
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ITunes 10.6.3 home sharing not working properly

iTunes 10.6.3 home sharing not working properly. I can access with my three ATV2's watch a movie later that same day it tries to access and ATV2 just keeps trying and never gets through to the library. If I restart iTunes its fine then later can't access. I am running iTunes 10.6.3 on a i7 Mac Mini with 10.7.4. Sole job is to be iTunes server and an occasional HTPC with remote buddy running. I disabled remote buddy ajax remote feature, and file sharing is on so I can load new tracks form other macs Thats it, a vanilla install with all updates.. No problem prior but not sure if problem free period was with 10.6 earler versions or 10.5 versions. I update as warnings to do so come up. The remote app has same problem accessing the Home Share. I disabled home sharing on my iPhone and set to access the old method with 4 digit code and sees all the time and will play to my express base stations so seems to be home sharing issue because iPhone apps with home sharing on and ATV2s have issue accessing.
I'm never home but when I am I use this equipment loads and this weekend not reliable at all. I have firewall disabled, and setup is as before and is working fine. I am using Mini by ethernet and using AEBS 1st generation gigabit as router only wired to cable modem and whole house ethernet attached, latest version AEBS gigabit as a wireless bridge and 2 prior version 11n expresses and a 11g express, all expresses are set to wireless off and are connected to ethernet and then to a stereo in 3 different rooms.
I can't be only one. Considering downgrading to last version of 10.5 but not sure how to do this.
How many of you are having trouble?
Any resolutions?
How to report to Apple?
How to downgrade safely? Or is it 10.7.4?

I ran into the specific problem in another thread. There are more than 100 connections from the apple TV's to iTunes. You can do a netstat -a (windows or Mac), and verify the problem. iTunes is smart enough to stop allowing more than 100 connections but stupid to allow the ATV to create so many connections.
Now for what you really want! Set all of your ATVs to wifi only. Even setting the iTunes host to wifi might help also. I think that wifi is more unreliable, and forces connections to drop, keeping the count under 100.
I also turned off ip v6. That could help you also. I originally had problems on a Mac mini, and built a windows 7 box to try to fix the problem. The wifi trick worked on both platforms. Several of us have bug reports into apple. I have a wired house also, and am very angry to NEED to use slow wifi to overcome this problem. The ATV gen 3 has been able to keep up with 1080p over wifi, so it doesn't hurt too much. What really hurts is spending over 40 hours troubleshooting this bug.

Home shareing not working

home sharing not working in version 10.3.6

Home sharing is only supported on version of iTunes that run on OS X 10.5 or later. You could go to the app store and purchase the Mountain Lion update for $19.99, then update iTunes and then it should be easy to set up.

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?

ITunes does not work after update

After I update 10.5, my Itunes doe not work.

What specifically does not work? Any errors?
If you want/need help, provide specifics of the issue. We are not mind readers.

Tried downloading itunes version 11.4 and received an error code 2324. Now itunes will not work at all and I cannot sync my phone, ipad or ipod. How should I proceed?

I have tried several times to load version 11.4 and keep getting an error code2324, now I cannot sync any of my apple products. I set my machine to a previous recover date, now iTunes will not work at all. I get a message stating I do not have the administrator rights to download. Any thoughts on this issue?

For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down page in case one of them applies.
Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there is backup and recovery advice elsewhere in the user tip.
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After doing a widows update itunes will not work at all

after doing a widows update itunes will not work at all

hiya!
I get the itunes has encounterd a problem and needs to close, sorry for the inconvenience error, no specific error number. I do not have QT installed,
not having QT installed is what will be causing your itunes error message at the moment. let's try a careful standalone QT 7.1 install.
download and save a copy of the QT 7.1 standalone installer to your hard drive. (we'll run the install from there rather than online.) switch off antivirus and antispyware applications prior to the install.
Quicktime 7.1 Standalone Installer
if that install goes through okay, does your itunes launch properly again?
(if you get an error message on the QT standalone reinstall, let us know what it says. include error message numbers if you're getting any.)
love, b

TS1292 My iTunes will not work at all I've had 7 different people try it and its still not working

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Now it sometimes keeps coming up and working but once i plug an ipod in it freezes my whole computer up and no i dont get any response from itunes at all

HT1926 my itunes is not working at all, so I uninstalled it and reinstalled. I get to the point where is says it is starting up and a messages box pops up and says "Service Apple Mobile Device failed to start. Verifty that you have sufficient privileges

my itunes is not working at all. A message pops up to say that I may not have suffient privileges to start system services on my apple mobile device.
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Try the following user tip:
Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates

I have upgraded My leopard to Mountain lion 10.7 via snow leapeard. Now My itunes is not working properly nor I able to install google chrome successfully. Please help me in this occasion. I am facing following messages.

Hello Team,
I have upgraded My leopard to Mountain lion 10.7 via snow leapeard. Now My itunes is not working properly nor I able to install google chrome successfully. Please help me in this occasion.
Also, I am not being able to upgrade Mac OS X 10.7 to 10.7.4 or letest for lion.
I am facing following messages when I open itunes ( I down loaded and install new for 10.7)
Process:         iTunes [463]
Path:            /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Identifier:      com.apple.iTunes
Version:         10.7 (10.7)
Build Info:      iTunes-10702101~1
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [273]
Date/Time:       2012-10-22 23:33:07.226 +0200
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7 (11A390)
Report Version: 8
Interval Since Last Report:          4918 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           2
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   2
Anonymous UUID:                      3DE933E2-7A48-4840-91F4-7DC466ED9C26
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
@executable_path/../Frameworks/iPodUpdater.framework/Versions/A/iPodUpdater
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/iPodUpdater.framework/Versions/A/iPodUpdater
Referenced from: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Reason: unsafe use of @executable_path in /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes with restricted binary
Binary Images:
       0x102a96000 -        0x103c36fff com.apple.iTunes (10.7 - 10.7) <0CC47E12-134F-A9E1-7E4F-3EAC797C3050> /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
    0x7fff62696000 -     0x7fff626cb1ff dyld (195 - ???) <71093406-21CF-3DBE-A001-802259ED5300> /usr/lib/dyld
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Graphics: Intel GMA X3100, GMA X3100, Built-In, 144 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz, 0xAD00000000000000, 0x48594D503131325336344350362D59352020
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, 667 MHz, 0xAD00000000000000, 0x48594D503131325336344350362D59352020
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Bluetooth: Version 2.5.0b13, 2 service, 12 devices, 2 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: FUJITSU MHY2160BH, 160.04 GB
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USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8205, 0x1a100000 / 2
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x022a, 0x5d200000 / 3
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And Google chrome just keep loading the page for hours and nothing is appear on its browser. But safari and firefox working absolutly fine.
In addition, I have reboot computer as well but it never worked. Please help me in this occasion.
Eagerly waiting for your response on this issue.
Best Regards,

You need to upgrade your copy of MS Office. You're using a version that is 8 years old (at least). You can buy Office 2011, which will work. You could also get a copy of Pages from the App Store, which is cheaper and will open Word files (though not perfectly). Or you could get a free Office clone, like OpenOffice or LibreOffice.

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