Remote App unable to locate my library

This morning I have found that the Remote App on my iPhone is no longer able to locate my iTunes library. I have restarted the phone, my MacBook Pro & both my Airport and Airport Express base stations (restarted each separately although they are 1 network). I have also added the library to the Remote App 4 or 5 times "successfully." I am not sure what has gone wrong. I know that they are on the same network and iTunes has no problem detecting the Remote when I pair the two.

For me the solution ended up being that I had turned the firewall back on (it was off so I could network my pc and move files and I never turned it back on). I had to switch to allow specific programs and added itunes. Now it works again

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