Why does home sharing not work endless both itunes are open?

Why doesn't it?
I was orginally asking how to fix it, but I saw those other posts on the right hand side and I guess It was always opened on both.
Why's it have to be like that? It can't just send a signal or something?

Winston Churchill wrote:
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I'm not sure it's all that realistic to expect something to work when it's turned off. Both devices need to be running iTunes in order for homesharing to work.
Mavericks server app not only doesn't need to be running, the account its on needn't even be logged in. Ideally, iTunes would use some kind of helper app to feed the data without the iTunes interface running, which is not then needed. But I can see from Apple's perspective how it might create user confusion.

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I have a Dell XPS M1530 laptop which is my older laptop, consisting of all my music, apps and so on. I recently purchased a MacBook Pro (latest version) and would like to use Home Sharing to browse my music libraries and so on on there. However, I find that I am unable to do this, after several methods I have attempted in order to resolve this issue.
The Home Sharing on the left column does not appear at all.
I have upgraded iTunes on both laptops to the latest version yesterday, which I assume is iTunes version 10.5.3.
I have turned off Home Sharing, and turned it on a few times.
I use the same Apple ID to log in to Home Sharing.
I named both playlists/music libraries to the same name - not sure if this is a way to 'fix' the problem but I saw it in a thread.
I tried all the above methods, but to no avail. Home Sharing still does not work - in fact, it does not even appear on the left column; it disappears as soon as I turn on Home Sharing.
Help is very muchly appreciated.
Thank you very much!

First, each Library should have a unique name, not the same name.
Now, I wrote an extensive how-to in another thread that explains Home Sharing, Library Sharing, how to turn them on and identify them and so on. See if it helps you with your problem.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3461734

Why does home-sharing not work with Windows-PC and iMac?

Aber mit gleichem Windows-PC und MacBookPro doch? Alles im selben Neztwerk. Der PC erscheint beim iMac einfach nicht unter Freigaben. Der iMac erscheint zwar beim PC unter Freigaben, aber wenn man auf die Mediathek des iMac in der PC-Anzeige klickt, erscheint der bunte Drehball und nach einer Weile ist die Anzeige des iMac in der Rubrik Freigabe beim PC nicht mehr da. Erst nach Neustart des PC erscheint der iMac dort wieder. So nutzt mir das gar nichts. Die Einkäufe werden automatisch auf allen drei Geräten aktualisiert.
Sämtliche "Hilfen" habe ich durchsucht, aber ohne Erfolg. Es klappt einfach nicht mit der Freigabe.
Vielleicht ist es ja möglich, eine deutsche Antwort zu bekommen.
Ich kann mir auch gut vorstellen, dass ein solches Forum in Deutschland gut genutzt würde. Es ist sehr schade, dass es das nicht gibt. Aber vielleicht kommt soetwas ja irgenwann einmal. Jetzt wo auch in Deutschland an jeder Ecke Apple-Produkte zu kaufen sind und keine Exoten mehr darstellen.
Vielen Dank im voraus.

First, each Library should have a unique name, not the same name.
Now, I wrote an extensive how-to in another thread that explains Home Sharing, Library Sharing, how to turn them on and identify them and so on. See if it helps you with your problem.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3461734

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?

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I want to import music from my laptop (Windows 7) to my main desktop (Windows Vista). My laptop regonizes the library on the desktop through Home Sharing but the desktop does not see the laptop. I have Home Sharing turned on on both PCs using the same iTunes account and I tried turning it on and off on both but it still doesn't work on my desktop. Both have the most recent version of iTunes. What am I doing wrong?

Interesting as you can see your other library on your desktop this suggests you are using Sharing rather than Home Sharing.
In Preferences, Sharing I only have the bottom Home Sharing computers and devices update play counts. You do not need the Share my Library on my local network ticked.
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Ctrl B To turn on top menu
File > Home Sharing > Create Home Share. Enter your Apple ID and password here and click create home share
Repeat on the other machine using exactly the same apple ID.
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Home sharing with my windows 7 desktop suddenly stopped working about 2 months ago. I went through the recommended steps online for troubleshooting home sharing but that did not help. A friend said I should uninstall and then reinstall iTunes which works the first time I connect via Apple TV. The second time I turn on Apple TV, home sharing does not work; i.e. it will not connect. I should remark that uninstalling and then reinstalling ITunes does not always work in allowing home sharing to make the connection. Any ideas to try?

I have had the same frustrations for months. Then I read a suggestion and tried it and it worked, at least for me. Here is what you do.
Go to Control Panel
Then click Network and Internet
Then Network Sharing Center
Under Connections, click your internet connection.
In the pop up box click on "properties" and when the box pops up, say yes.
Then uncheck Internet Protocol Version 6 and click the okay box.
After I did that mine started working and has worked even after turning off itunes and getting back in.
I hope this works for you.

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My home sharing is not working between my iphone 5s & iTunes (windows 7 pc). Both are on latest update, the pc has firewall shut off. I tried searching and have done all the instructions with shutting the router off and signing out on both sides and back in. I had this problem on a previous version and now I have updated 2 times and still there isn't a solution to this. The iPhone says Unable to turn on Home Sharing. iTunes reads Home Sharing is on. Why isn't this fixed yet? What is the deal? I have been dealing with this for 2 month's. Why does apple continue to sell a product that they show works but in reality it doesnt work. I am very fustrated as this is constantly annoying and my friend is also going through the same dilemea with his apple tv.

If the iPhone isn't able to turn Home Sharing on perhaps you could do a hard reset ie hold the power and home buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo appears (ignore the red slider). If that doesn't fix it try Settings > Reset > Reset All Settings (you won't lose any data but any settings you've changed will go back to the defaults).

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I have logged into my apple id for both computers that i want to have home sharing on. However only one of the two computers has access to the other itunes library. What do i do so both of my computers can have acces to both itunes libraries?

When you say 'logged into my Apple ID', do you mean you turned on Home Sharing by going to File > Home Sharing > Turn on Home Sharing?
If you turn on HS for both machines on the same network, you should see your library on both machines.

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Why do we each have to reconfigure the network every time we use our computers?

What is the exact problem? Is it that your current network does not support providing Internet access to more than one computer at a time? Regardless, what is the make & model of your network's router and modem? If your network has more than one router, what is the make & models of each of them and how are they configured?

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How many of you are having trouble?
Any resolutions?
How to report to Apple?
How to downgrade safely? Or is it 10.7.4?

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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.
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I've got a pretty large library where my music is hosted on a PC file server, but iTunes is running on a mac mini.
I've enabled Home sharing, but I get lots of problems.
The iPhone doesn't allways pick up the home sharing and when it loses it I have to power off the phone and then back on again for it to find the shoare again.
When I can see the share and pick a playlist, I only get a few dozen tracks out of a list of thousands
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