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thedarkhorse

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Sep 13, 2007
662
0
Canada
The best part about upgrading to ios5 today was that I can now seamlessly listen to my tunes stored on my macbook pro through the native music app. I have an iphone that I store music on and the ipad is mostly used around the house and is only 16GB so this was a welcome addition.

To set it up click "sharing" on the left panel in itunes(you may need to first enable sharing in itunes preferences). Then setting up a home share is just your itunes user id/password, takes about half a minute for it to set up after you enter. Then on your device just go to settings->music-> and enter your user/pass under "Home Sharing".

You can access your shared library on your ipad/iphone in the music app under "more"->"shared".
 

JRoDDz

macrumors 68000
Jul 2, 2009
1,960
215
NYC
The best part about upgrading to ios5 today was that I can now seamlessly listen to my tunes stored on my macbook pro through the native music app. I have an iphone that I store music on and the ipad is mostly used around the house and is only 16GB so this was a welcome addition.

To set it up click "sharing" on the left panel in itunes(you may need to first enable sharing in itunes preferences). Then setting up a home share is just your itunes user id/password, takes about half a minute for it to set up after you enter. Then on your device just go to settings->music-> and enter your user/pass under "Home Sharing".

You can access your shared library on your ipad/iphone in the music app under "more"->"shared".


This worked under iOS 4 as well.
 

HarryPot

macrumors 65816
Sep 5, 2009
1,082
541
Shouldn't iCloud further improve this? By even eliminating the need of a Mac and allowing you to stream form the cloud?
 
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