Home Sharing Issues

[Prodo123]

Maybe it's because I have a lossless library, but the album artwork shows up 5 seconds after the song starts. Didn't have this issue with ALAC, but it keeps bugging me when I use AIFF.

In fact, the Home Sharing music interface lags quite a bit. I never had a problem in iOS 4, or even in iOS 5b3 and before, but it's really slow now.

Please help!

 

[Crystalmess]

I can't even get my computers to share right now.

 

[Prodo123]

Also some random disconnection issues.

 

[josh.tucholski]

iOS 5 w/Home Sharing issues

I am experiencing disconnection issues with iOS 5 home sharing. Here is what I have discovered:

Setup:
- Windows PC with iTunes 10.5
- Verizon iPhone 4 with iOS 5 (previously iOS 4.2)
- iPad 1 with iOS 5 (previously iOS 4.3)
- Apple TV 2 with updates for iOS 5 (previously out of the box)

I purchased Apple TV a week before iOS 5 came out and was very pleased with the performance and the responsiveness when browsing and viewing my library. Immediately following the updates for iOS 5 on the Apple TV my home sharing from the main menu disconnected often and could only be resolved by restarting my router, iTunes (some of the time) or my computer.

I also ran iOS 4.3 on my iPad prior to that and had no issues looking at my home share library. With iOS 5 on the iPad my home share often disappears as well - typically after I have started viewing at least one item off the share.

I can't validate the same experience on my iPhone since home sharing wasn't supported in iOS 4.2, but with 5.0 now I experience the same behavior that I get with the iPad and Apple TV.

To me this means there is either iTunes or iOS 5 issues since those two factors are the only two that changed. This isn't an Apple TV issue but a home sharing issue.

I get it that some people have disabled wireless on the Apple TV, but that is not an option on the iPad and iPhone.

What are other people's thoughts on this?

 

[PNutts]

I am experiencing disconnection issues with iOS 5 home sharing.

I think we are off topic here and apologies to the OP.

After upgrading iTunes to 10.5 and ATV2 to iOS 5 my iTunes library sometimes doesn't appear on the ATV2 menu. I believe the problem is iTunes.

When my library doesn't appear, I also have no AirPlay icon in iTunes (bottom right corner). If I close and restart iTunes, the AirPlay icon appears and then my library is also available in ATV2. There is no wireless network between iTunes and ATV2.

 

[kring]

I've been troublshooting iTunes 10.5 issues with Home Sharing for a few days now.. I've concluded it's 100% iTunes at fault, there is a defect in how it connects to the network and it can not be seen reliably by all the other devices (6 for me ATV2 & 5 devices) I've disabled firewall, restarted all devices.. it's an intermittent thing and from my searching the internet we're not alone and it doesn't matter if you have a Mac or PC, both iTunes are not working.

Do you notice iTunes freeze for a few seconds constantly, WIFI sync is unreliable, iTunes library goes in and out of accessiblity... something is really wrong with iTunes 10.5

I've never had issues until i upgrade iTunes.

 

[josh.tucholski]

Agreed - bittersweet but hearing we are not the only ones helps.

PNutts - never intended to go offtopic, I was merely demonstrating that the issue extended beyond AppleTV and was across the board with the latest update.

 

[dmrowley]

Add me to the list of people having issues with Home Sharing. My Mac is constantly stuck on the "Checking SO and So's Library for new purchases", and when I click on the Shared Library for my wife's PC, it just disappears. Once that happens, and I quit iTunes on my Mac, it pops up a crash report.

10.5 is fundamentally broken. I hope they fix it soon!

 

[TheNinjaJedi]

I am experiencing disconnection issues with iOS 5 home sharing. Here is what I have discovered:

Setup:
- Windows PC with iTunes 10.5

I Found the problem.

 

[jdsam]

I Found the problem.

For the record, I'm experiencing the exact same problem with my 2010 15" mbp (10.7.2) and a 2 day old iPad2 (came installed with iOS5).

I got the "shared" menu to come up on the iPad once for a split second and connected, but was then unable to play any songs. Since then I've turned off/on home sharing, the lion firewall and the devices themselves in an attempt to get it to work. Since that one instance I have been unable to get the "shared" item in the "more" menu on the iPad.

bummer