I am completely thwarted by tvOS at the moment.
I've been trying like crazy to get my digital music to play through my home theater. I currently have an aTV4K running the current OS, and a 2017 iMac on Mojave. Homesharing is enabled on both pieces. My library is hosted via iTunes on the iMac, from a hard drive attached to my Airport Extreme. I used that same setup to stream my movie library to a previous aTV 4 (but not this 4K).
When I went to iTunes on the AppleTV, it doesn't show my library. It shows my wife's library, with all 2 of the albums she purchased plus the un-deletable U2 album from hell. Her iCloud account is used for app purchases, my AppleID is used for Homesharing. Before we went to Infuse, thats how we watched movies off my local drive, and it worked. Now, I can't get any of my libraries to show up.
I checked in iTunes on the Mac and found that "share my library with everyone on the network" wasn't checked, so I fixed that. My library still isn't showing up.
I figured that maybe I should sign the wife out of her iCloud account and see if iTunes then points to my library. Nope. Now it asks me to sign in so I can use Apple Music. Thats when I noticed that what I thought was iTunes was actually the "Music" app. Apparently they got rid of the music player portion of the iTunes app, and they took the streaming portion and called it "Music"?
I then went to the Computer app - which was how I used to play movies years ago - and tried to find my library that way. I couldn't. Instead I got a message that aTV "couldn't find" my library, even though the name it showed for the library was correct. So it could find the name but not the library attached to the name? Even better, the message I got under that said "Make sure your computer is attached to the same network as your Apple TV". No problem! Thats the network where I have my Apple TV currently pulling media from Netflix and Hulu, and running the Infuse app which can see my movie library, and where an earlier aTV used to play those movies, but this one can't see it?
Is this a simple thing to fix? What do I need to do to play music off my local drives?
I've been trying like crazy to get my digital music to play through my home theater. I currently have an aTV4K running the current OS, and a 2017 iMac on Mojave. Homesharing is enabled on both pieces. My library is hosted via iTunes on the iMac, from a hard drive attached to my Airport Extreme. I used that same setup to stream my movie library to a previous aTV 4 (but not this 4K).
When I went to iTunes on the AppleTV, it doesn't show my library. It shows my wife's library, with all 2 of the albums she purchased plus the un-deletable U2 album from hell. Her iCloud account is used for app purchases, my AppleID is used for Homesharing. Before we went to Infuse, thats how we watched movies off my local drive, and it worked. Now, I can't get any of my libraries to show up.
I checked in iTunes on the Mac and found that "share my library with everyone on the network" wasn't checked, so I fixed that. My library still isn't showing up.
I figured that maybe I should sign the wife out of her iCloud account and see if iTunes then points to my library. Nope. Now it asks me to sign in so I can use Apple Music. Thats when I noticed that what I thought was iTunes was actually the "Music" app. Apparently they got rid of the music player portion of the iTunes app, and they took the streaming portion and called it "Music"?
I then went to the Computer app - which was how I used to play movies years ago - and tried to find my library that way. I couldn't. Instead I got a message that aTV "couldn't find" my library, even though the name it showed for the library was correct. So it could find the name but not the library attached to the name? Even better, the message I got under that said "Make sure your computer is attached to the same network as your Apple TV". No problem! Thats the network where I have my Apple TV currently pulling media from Netflix and Hulu, and running the Infuse app which can see my movie library, and where an earlier aTV used to play those movies, but this one can't see it?
Is this a simple thing to fix? What do I need to do to play music off my local drives?