My Home Sharing become invisible on all gadgets

Recently, my Apple TV 3, iPhone 4 and iPad 2 do not display my Home Sharing from iMac and MacBook Pro. But on MacBook Pro is displayed HS from iMac. Help!!!

HomeSharing is not (and never has been) enabled on any iPhone or iPad.
HomeSharing is enabled in iTunes on a computer.

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Home Sharing Folder Empty on all client PC's on Home Network

I have Home Sharing 'on' on all my local PC's (3 of them). I can see the Shared Folder on each of my PC's in iTunes, but when I click on the folder from a non-host PC, NO songs, movies or TV Shows appear! Folder and sub folders (music, movies, TV shows, etc,) are all empty.
Home Sharing DID work just fine for a year. But sometime within the past month or two - perhaps after an iTunes "update" - it no longer works. All settings checked - "shared" my Library in Preferences, turned on Home Sharing on each PC, all are on the same simple home network. And again, the Shared Folder IS visible on each PC - there is just no content in the folder! I am offically stumped. Please help.
Thanks in advance.

Hey ArnoDWG,
Thank you for the question, and welcome to Apple Support Communities.
I understand that you are having issues with home sharing, and that these issues are isolated to your PC. I also want to thank you for providing information about your security software, as this may be the cause.
For more information, see the following resource:
Troubleshooting Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
While the entire article provides great help, the most relevant information may be Section 5: "Check Firewall Settings":
If you have a firewall enabled in your router or computer, make sure that the firewall is not blocking communication between your computers. Home Sharing uses TCP port 3689 and UDP port 5353 to communicate with shared iTunes libraries.
In addition, Apple TV and Mac computers will use port 123 to set the time automatically. Incorrect date and time on either the computer or Apple TV can cause errors for Home Sharing and connections in general.
If you are unsure whether your router has a firewall or the required ports open, test additional devices or another network to help isolate the issue. If the devices tested work on another home network, it is your router or network configuration.
If you use another security/firewall software on your computer or router, follow this article or contact the manufacturer or check the documentation on how to open TCP ports 123 and 3689 as well as UDP ports 123 and 5353.
Thanks,
Matt M.

HT3819 i have home sharing turned on but all of my movies in my pc library are not showing up on apple tv

home sharing is turned on in my pc but apple tv does not show my entire movie library.
please help

Where are you trying to access them? Make sure you are going to the Computers icon. Also make sure to check under Movies and Home Movies.
Make sure they are all compatible.
H.264 video up to 1080p, 30 frames per second, High or Main Profile level 4.0 or lower, Baseline profile level 3.0 or lower with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats
MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file formats
Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

HT3819 Since the last AppleTV update I can no longer use home sharing. chI have checked all IDs, rebooted iTunes, AppleTV, and my router, eck port settings in my firewall. Nothing works. Is it me or did this update screw things up?

Since the last AppleTV update I can no longer use home sharing. I have checked all IDs, re-booted iTunes, my router, and AppleTV, and checked the port settings in my firewall. nothing works. Is it me or did this last update really scew things up?

Hi,
I tried everythink, but same as before!
- droppings ot the main screen
- loosing Home Share
now even on iPads !
Frustrating!
I'm now more than convinced that this is caused by the latest iTunes version.
As some others stated in other threads .... it seems that Apple doesn't really take care of this problem. So what if, if we could make them feeling the same pain as we do. ... Just by dropping them a mail as soon as we have the problem again. Not more often, we don't want to be unfair, but everytime it happens.
I found this feedback site http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
I will start now with this.... maybe this will help to rise a little bit of attention
Tweety
This is the mailbody I always use
Hello all,
Since the last update to iTunes Version 10.6.1 (7) streaming content (Movies and TV shows) to Apple TVs and iPads has two major problems:
- Home Sharing is lost during streaming (streaming stops even if a large portion of the content is already preloaded)
- streaming stops and the main screen pops up (Home Sharing still available)
This happens sometime after some minutes, sometimes after several hours, but it surely happens.
I followed every advice I could found on this support website. There are now a lot of threads following this issue.
Sometimes it seems getting better, but hours later the same isues occured again. Watching content on this enviroment is a real pain and very frustrating.
As many others I'm now convinced that the latest update of iTunes caused this problem.
Our family enviroment contains the following Apple products:
- iTunes on a Win7 32 bit Noname PC (all content)
- second iTunes on a iMac with OS 10.6.8 (all content)
- third iTunes on a MacBook Pro with OS 10.6.8 (daughter, only selected content)
- fourth iTunes on a Win7 32 Samsung Notebook (son, only selected content)
- all iTunes sharing the same Home Sharing ID
- 2 Apple TV second generation
- 1 Apple TV first generation
- 2 iPod touch (bought last year)
- 2 iPads (second generation)
all firmware or software are on latest available patchlevel.
At this moment, I can not recomend to others to buy this products.
I will drop this feedback everytime my famiily and I facing this problem... just to help you to get a better feeling of the urgency of this issue.
Thanks for every effort in advanced.

I have a dell desktop computer and i have itunes but all of my music is from cd's i own and i'm thinking about buying a laptop if i do the home sharing can i move all my music from my desktop computer to the laptop?

i have a desktop computer and have itunes and all of my music is from cd's and i want to buy a laptop if i do home sharing will all of my music on my desktop computer be on my laptop

Copy the ENTIRE iTunes folder from the old computer to the new computer. Home Sharing is rife with problems when transferring media.

Cannot get home sharing to work on all computers

Hi,
I have a PC (running win7) with itunes and my music files on it. My daughter has a netbook (again win7) with itunes that accesses the shared music on my PC. So far everything is great! However my laptop (yet again, win7) has itunes installed but for some reason will not access the shared music on my PC.
All the machines are using itunes 9.0.3.15.
I have just reinstalled windows on my laptop (it did work before!).
Any help to enable me to connect my laptop to the shared music on my PC would be greatly appreciated!

Yes, I've been through that one. Thanks for trying, though!
The strange thing is my PC can see the laptop library, but not the other way around.
I'm actually starting to think about giving up with this and buying some wireless speakers and controlling itunes on my PC with VNC. At least this way I'll have the cover flow, too!

Windows XP and Windows 7 home sharing not working at all

Had a really old laptop with XP that I used basically only for iTunes. Now want to use homesharing to get all my music/apps from the old XP to a new, Windows 7 laptop. Both laptops are authorised to use my Apple ID and I've authorised and de-authorised it several times. I have activated and deactivated homesharing on both computers several times. I have also removed Firewalls from both computers, and I have made sure the "Bonjour" service is activated on both computers. Nothing is working, as soon as I click "done" after activating homesharing it disappears from the lefthand side column of the iTunes window on both computers. Please help I'm going to Uni in 6 days and don't wanna transfer this all manually!

I was able to resolve my issue. Here's how:
Did a lot of research on this. I have a Linksys WRT120N router where the only device not on Wifi was my Windows 7 PC (it was plugged in with an Ethernet cable while everything else was on Wifi). Having fiddled with the router settings to no avail, I went out and bought a Wireless USB adapter to put the Windows 7 PC on Wifi.
When I set that up, I could now see my Windows 7 library on the Apple TVs. However, when I went into the library, it was stuck on "Loading Library" in perpetuity.
I looked in my list of Windows services running (Start -> Control Panel -> Search for "Services") and noticed that, even though I disabled the Windows Firewall in the System and Security settings, the Windows Firewall service was still running. I disabled the service (right click -> properties) and restarted the computer. Voila, it works now.
It is possible that the problem was the Windows Firewall service (not the Wireless), but I've read countless posts where people had issues with the devices being on wired and Wifi and not seeing each other. As such, I haven't (and don't plan to) tested it back with just the Ethernet cable. If you're having my issue, you can try that first.
I should also note that when this wasn't working, I was also unable to use my iPhone to pair as a remote with iTunes. It would pair but the iPhone would be stuck in "Looking for" when I tried to control the library. This is now also fixed after doing the above.
Hope this helps anyone else frustrated out there.

TS2972 What can I do I home sharing did not transfer all my music?

I left my laptops to transfer evrything becuase I would have taken many hours. Unfortunatey, when I return both computers had started sleepig and not all content was transferred. iTunes will not let me retry the homeshare, but I am still missing all music after 'M'.

Copy the ENTIRE iTunes folder from the old computer to the new computer.

When i try to register home sharing on my lap top, when clicking create home share nothing happens at all. What am i doing wrong?

I have just got a new lap top and therefore I want to transfer my i tunes. To be able to do this I need to create home sharing on both lap tops. I have manged to do this on my new lap top, but not my old one. When I add my details in my old one and click creat home sharing, nothing happens at all.
I have itunes 10 on the old lap top.
What am i doing wrong?

Thank you for your feedback

Mini is seen by all iMacs on home sharing, but cannot see any

Network of 3 iMacs, 1 Mac Mini, 1 AppleTV. All using iTunes 11.0.1
Home sharing turned on on all devices.
Mini is the only one where shared libraries of other Macs won't show up
On its Home page, Library button show Music, Movies, Books and Apps only

这应该是mini的bug吧，你买个ipad4多好。。
虽然我知道你看不懂中文，但是我能看懂英文，还是中国人牛吧，会两门语言。。\(^o^)/~

I am trying to use the Home Sharing feature but none of my current library is showing up under my Share Library ?

I recently purchased a new lap top and thought the easiest way to move my library before wiping my old lap top would be the Home Sharing feature. I have gotten everthing set up for Home Sharing but the library on my current laptop isn't showing under the shared library? I am using the same account log in that I have always used and the Home Shared library isn't even seeing purchases under my account? How do I get the Home Shared library to see all my music?

What operating systems are you running?

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.

How do I use Home Sharing in iTunes version 11.2.2?

I am trying to sync all of the music and playlists from my old mac book to my new one. I am signed in to Home Sharing and can view all of my songs on both computers but I can't figure out how to import those songs onto the new computer. From what I've read it seems like I need a "Show menu" at the bottom of my iTunes window but it isn't there. How do I get that to appear? Or is there a way to import the songs without it?

iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
Remember that you'll have to authorize both computers.

Can I use Home Sharing for this...

I have 3 iphones (2 x 6's and 1 x 5), and an ipad, all of which I use one iTunes account. iTunes and Mac software all up to date
Is it possible to use Home Sharing to sync them all exactly the same or is the a better/smarter way to do this.
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.

Home Sharing issue with multiple iTunes libraries

I'm hoping someone out there has a suggestion to help solve the problem I'm having with the new iOS 4.3 Home Sharing.
I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro both running the latest system and iTunes versions. Each has an iTunes library with Home Sharing turned on. All works fine between them -- each iTunes library shows up on the other computer's as a shared library. We also have a 2nd gen Apple TV that sees both computers correctly, e.g., both libraries show up under computers on the Apple TV.
The problem is with my iPad and 4th gen iPod touch. Both have been updated to 4.3. I signed in to Home Sharing in the Music setting without a problem. Everything is on the same local WiFi network. The problem is that only one of the iTunes libraries shows up as a Shared Library. And it's not consistent as far as which one shows up, the laptop or the iMac. Sometimes it'll be one, sometimes it's the other. Never is it both of them so I can select which one I want to access. This doesn't really make sense to me, as they both do show up on the Apple TV. Both of my iOS devices have this problem. Is it really supposed to function this way?
Any suggestions?

I'm glad to hear that it's not just me. I have iTunes libraries on a Mac Mini and on my Macbook. They show up in the shared section in iTunes on the opposite machines, as well as on my 2nd Generation Apple TV. They even show up in the Remote app on my iDevices. However, only one shows up in the iPod music app on the iPhone 3GS and iPad, as well as the iPad video app.
Hopefully, this gets fixed soon. I keep my podcasts on my Macbook and that's the library that's not showing up on the iDevices iPod app.

My Home Sharing become invisible on all gadgets

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