TS2972 Home Sharing help needed

Hi, what do I do if I there is no button at the bottom of the itunes window for homesharing

Movie/TV rentals, Netflix etc are separate from Home Sharing, which is using your local network. There's something amiss there.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972

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TS2972 Home sharing help :

This used to work and I don't THINK I've changed anything. My main library on my PC is "Home Master" (so my typical main iTunes librabry on my PC when I open up iTunes). It's media files are in "iTunes Master" (public folder). I can see library "Home Master" on iphone but it's empty ? I don't think the iPhone "points" specifcially at "Home Master" but just picks it up from iTunes settings. Yet the PC knows how to find all the files in Home Master.
And iTunes is fired up when I attempt to access the library from my iPhone.

Home sharing only works on the same network.
You can download past purchases from iTunes or wait until you get back home and copy all the content to the "new" computer or a flash/external drive to take back to school with you.

Home sharing help needed - why can't it see my iMac?

Here are my specifics:
Apple TV (2nd gen) - version 6.0.2
iTunes - version 11.1.3
AirPort Extreme (4th gen) - version 7.6.4
My Apple TV cannot see my iMac. I suspect something with the router but I'm not a techie and don't know why it suddenly doesn't work. I've tried turning on / turning off / resetting everything but no luck. My firewall is not on. I'm not interested in using a previous software version. Can anyone provide any help? Thank you.

Yes and Yes.
I also have a MacBook and noticed that my iMac and MacBook can share their iTunes libraries between each other. But my ATV can see neither the iMac nor the MacBook.
AirPlay is also missing on my iPad and iPhone - does this all point to a problem with ATV?

TS2972 Home Sharing Issue - Help!

I can view the library in the left hand pane; however, when I select it will not load the music. It states "Loading "XXXXX Library" and then defaults to the music library. Can you please help!

Hi there,
You may want to review the process for importing media using Home Sharing in iTunes 11.
iTunes 11 for Mac: Use Home Sharing to import items from another iTunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12286
Hope that helps,
Griff W.

TS2972 Home sharing is enabled but can not see shared libraries on any devices

I don't see my shared libraries on authorized computers, iphone, nor Apple TV.
Ran netstat -an
and see the listener for TCP tcp port 3689
Also see an entry for udp port 5353.
I can open a connection to the tcp port 3689 via a java api program and telnet.
I also used TS2972 to help with thiss
the only thing I did not do is reset the router but since I can open the ports I don't beleieve it is a router issue
All devices ere connected to the same router
All devices are using the same apple id
Need this to work to get the most out of the iphone and apple tv
any ideas are appreciated

I have set the apple ID in the Home sharing setting on windows. Also set it on the iPhone and Apple TV and also shared another library on another windows iTunes application. I don't see any shared libraries on any device. Both the pcs only show the local libray.

TS2972 HOME SHARING WONT WORK WITH ITUNES 12

I CANT ANYMORE
My OS is Windows 7
My iOS device: iPad 7.1.1
My iTunes Version: 12
AND I've tried by all means to use home sharing with the Remote app, but it doesn't work at all.
So please HELP ME

I have had this same problem since I upgraded to version 11 of iTunes. I just found today that if you go into Preferences (under the Edit menu in Windows or under File on Mac OS) there is a Sharing tab that was turned off. As soon as I checked the box in front of "Share my library on my local network" and the checkbox in front of "Home Sharing computers and devices update play counts" (I don't know if this second checkbox has to be checked or not) and restarted iTunes on each computer it began to work again.
I have no idea why Apple decided to have this turned off by default in version 11+ as I had it working fine prior to upgrading. I also have no idea why Apple makes no mention of the need to go into the Preferences and make sure Sharing is enabled. I have found no mention of it in any home sharing documentation...
Ed K

TS2972 home sharing when not connected to internet

my old computer will not connect to the internet and it has all my songs on it. can i still do home sharing?

I do not believe you can based on Apple Technical Support article TS2972.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972
In Section 4 under the Resolution, it states:
Home Sharing requires a home network with an active Internet connection. All the devices you want to use with Home Sharing need to be connected to your home network.

TS2972 Home Sharing, Bookmark update & reading list all stopped syncing since software upgrade

After Apple TV, iTunes and phone update nothing will sync with my PC!!

Home Sharing is working perfectly fine for me, and I'm quite sure many others. I'm using Windows 7, a Linksys WRT54G router with WPA2 security enabled, and iTunes 10.1.2. It would help if you could answer a few questions:
1- Let's start with the obvious -- what version iTunes are you using? (you need 10.1 but didn't say)
2- Have you enabled Home Sharing on your computer and ATV?
3- What router make and model are you using? I don't know of specific issues here, but others may.
4- Is the ATV hooked up to your router via ethernet, or wireless? If wireless, try ethernet at least temporarily if you can, just to narrow down the problem as it may be a wireless configuration in your router's settings.
5- Using the Remote App on your iPhone, can you control the ATV? Or, can you only stream audio to ATV from your iPhone? If Remote works, can you get to YouTube, Netflix, or the iTunes store and successfully play any content?

TS2972 Home sharing wont turn on :(

my internet is fully connected, but homesharing wont turn on, it says i have error -3212... i have firewall off... help please? it also says i cannot connect to itunes because im not connected to the internet... but i am

I'm afraid that the Mac will need to be on (and awake and with iTunes running) for you to stream from it to the iPhone via Home Sharing.

TS2972 Home Sharing does not work for my iphone 4S or my MacBook Pro and my appleTV... why?

I have everything logged in properly. And I've started and restarted each device... but still no home sharing. In fact, the Apple TV icon doesn't even show up on my iPhone any more. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

You've done the obvious things. Have you restarted your router?

ITunes Home Sharing help - can't find shared library

1st-time setup. Enabled Home sharing on "old" and "new", and successfully imported 7 songs onto "new". Now Shared menu item on left-hand panel is gone. Apple help says to turn off/on sharing - doesn't help.

If the other computer you're trying to access has timed out or off you cannot access it. I'm not sure if that is what is going on just thought I would offer that help.

TS2972 Home Sharing with ATV stopped working after upgrade to iTunes 11

After upgrading to iTunes 11, my two PCs are no longer visible to Apple TV or the iOS Remote App. I went through all the steps in "Troubleshooting Home Sharing" http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972 without success. In additions, I tried:
Turning Home Sharing off, then on again on both PCs
Re-created Firewall rules for iTunes
Ran a factory reset on Apple TV
Disabled iPV6 on the network adapter, based on a blogger's fix for an iTunes 10 problem
Some other observations:
Home Sharing was working with Apple TV an hour before I ran the updates for iTunes 11 and Apple TV.
The Apple TV and iOS Remote App are working together, so the network settings must be correct.
The PCs in question are running Window 8 Pro 64-bit and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
The two PCs can see eachother's iTunes.
It seems likely this is an iTunes 11 issue, but upgrading ATV2 at the same time clouds the diagnostics.
I was just about to order two more Apple TVs, but now have second thoughts now that my ATV2 is just a doorstop.
Any suggestions?

You are not alone with issues related to the e1000e (but all they concluded was that reloading the module makes it work again):
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=145564
It seems like this is more your issue:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux. … devel/8932
But if none of those boot flags work for you, then there's not much you can do, and you'll have to write a script to reload the module each time after initial boot finishes I guess until the module gets fixed.
Also, power management of the PCIe interface causes the e1000e to shut off after a while as well (lots of people on CentOS noticing this):
http://serverfault.com/questions/226319 … ie-aspm-do
So you can use that boot parameter to stop that from happening, if that becomes an issue for you as well.

TS2972 Home Sharing from computer (Apple Library) to Apple TV

I turn on home sharing, it will play for about 10-15 minutes then it stops. I have to stop and restart home sharing on the computer to get it back. Computer (Win7 Ultimate), Apple TV and router are in the same roomonly several feet apart. Wireless signal is strong. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Windows Utimate (also have a Mac Mini)

Home sharing is simply accessing your local library, it won't lower quality. Mirroring will compress content as it needs to in order to display everything over real time.
If on wifi try ethernet
Make sure there are no other activities occurring (streaming, network backups etc)
Go to istumbler or similar to get a network report, look for signal strength, noise, nearby networks

TS2972 Home Sharing Issue

When using Home Sharing for the first time, we enabled Home Sharing, signed in with my appleID on 3 laptops on our home network. Computer 1 could see Computer 2 and 3 which both download in a few seconds and no problem sharing music. Computer # 2 and #3 could also see both other computers and share between each other (between 2 and 3). However, even though # 2 and #3 could see computer #1, it would not load computer # 1's library, it just keeps saying "downloading "X's" libary" but it never get there, just keeps chugging along. Library # 1 is not significantly larger then the other two. Anythoughts on what might be causing this? Computer #1 and #2 are both Windows 7 machines and #3 is Windows XP.
Right after I posted this, I figured it out. Under preferences and home sharing, the box wasn't checked to share my entire library. Works fine now. SInce it was acting like it was downloading I hadn't checked that.

Hi there,
You may want to review the process for importing media using Home Sharing in iTunes 11.
iTunes 11 for Mac: Use Home Sharing to import items from another iTunes library
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12286
Hope that helps,
Griff W.

TS2972 Home Sharing "Show" menu does not appear

Can anyone tell us why this does not appear in our itunes window, "In the Show menu at the bottom of the iTunes window"?
The shared library appears, and all the music, but there is no Show menu and no way to import songs anymore and we can't for the devil figure out why. Thanks for any thoughts and suggestions.
PP63

I have the same problem... last time I saw the home sharing icon was when I hit the "done" button, and ever since the home sharing icon is missing from my Itunes and I cannot find it anywhere on my Ipod. Itunes "help" was useless, what is going on, why doesn't this work??

TS2972 Home Sharing help needed

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