Lee Farber

Q: Home sharing on iDevices not loading large library

I store my entire music library (3TB of ALAC files) on a Mac Mini connected to my Time Capsule. I can home share the library flawlessly on my laptop, but it absolutely refuses to load the library on my iPhone or iPad. I'm using all the latest software (iOS7, iTunes 11.1) with an iPhone 5 and iPad 3.

 

When I try to share my library, the circle starts to load, but never gets past halfway. I've tried EVERYTHING, i.e. signing out of home sharing and quitting iTunes, restarting the Mac Mini, restarting the iPhone, unplugging the Time Capsule and plugging it back in, and several other tips I've found around here and elsewhere online, but nothing seems to work!

 

I have other apps (such as Audiotap) that will do the trick, but they leave a gap between tracks, so I would prefer to get home sharing working properly. Thanks in advance for any help.

iPhone 5, iOS 7

Posted on Sep 19, 2013 10:44 PM

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  • by TpUg,

    TpUg TpUg Jan 2, 2015 5:41 AM in response to Lee Farber
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    Jan 2, 2015 5:41 AM in response to Lee Farber

    i've had some success by (unfortunately) pairing down my video library to 80'ish videos. Then on my ios device, I go to Settings, General, Video and sign out of the sharing with my apple id; then signing back in and re-launching the videos app. Loading time for the shared library is now 15-30seconds.

     

    my original issue started when the video count was up over 100 vids, there seems to be a tipping point where the shared loading either works (although not too quick) or completely remains stuck in time.

     

    note that the meta-data (screen picture) of the videos (still) does not show up, but i can live with this.

     

    using ipad retina with ios 8.x now... same problem exists on my ios7 ipad (same partial solution works as well)..

     

    hope this helps

  • by 2aLlama,

    2aLlama 2aLlama Jan 11, 2015 7:07 PM in response to Grant Symon
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    Jan 11, 2015 7:07 PM in response to Grant Symon

    did not work, I only have 100 gig of music and media. circle gets stuck and times out.

  • by russianj,

    russianj russianj Jan 20, 2015 7:13 PM in response to Lee Farber
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    Jan 20, 2015 7:13 PM in response to Lee Farber

    I am seeing the same issues. I just setup a new library on new computer and saw great speeds for a week, but now the library load times on I-devices are crap. I have iPads and iPhones all with these issues. NO issues on Apple TVs, though. This all has to do with IOS. Why can't Apple fix this?

  • by txchou,

    txchou txchou Jan 31, 2015 4:34 AM in response to russianj
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    Jan 31, 2015 4:34 AM in response to russianj

    Same problem here. Fine on Apple TV and Mac Air...exactly the same problems as others on this thread with iPad, iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 (previously with iPhone 4). Used to work great on iOS 6!

     

    Waiting [im]patiently for a fix!

  • by Laurent Seroude,

    Laurent Seroude Laurent Seroude Jan 31, 2015 11:44 AM in response to Lee Farber
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    Jan 31, 2015 11:44 AM in response to Lee Farber

    Same problem as everyone else here as well....2 years later and Apple is still ignoring this problem....I have no hope left and no real alternative is available for my home that relies on 4 appleTV (plea is not playing well with appleTVs). If my iPad 2 can list my 4000 movies and 6500 TV shows quickly when using the Remote app, then the Music and Video applications should be able to do the same! I invested heavily in Apple since 1995 and had a wonderful media sharing/network system in my home, since iOS6 it has been problems after problems up to the sad state we are in today...I am stuck because I invested so much (would have to replace computers, airport extreme, time capsules, appleTVs, iPads, iPods, iPhones) but I no longer advise anyone to buy AppleTVs or iPads.

  • by Grafton Reed,

    Grafton Reed Grafton Reed Jan 31, 2015 12:46 PM in response to Laurent Seroude
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    Jan 31, 2015 12:46 PM in response to Laurent Seroude

    i just did a test on my home network using my girlfriend's iPhone 6+ and my 25,0000 song on iTunes 12.1 and it loads on her phone in about one minute. Still no joy using my first gen iPad mini or iPhone 4s. Running iOS 8. Works flawlessly with Apple TV. I should note I use a 4th gen Apple Router and hardware my Apple TV to the Router.

  • by 7054,

    7054 7054 Feb 3, 2015 7:15 AM in response to Laurent Seroude
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    Feb 3, 2015 7:15 AM in response to Laurent Seroude

    I gave up after over a year of this.  Just yesterday I installed Plex sever on my Mac mini and paid the 4.99 for the android app for my TV and again for all my iDevices.  It works well.  It's becoming harder to make the argument for all my Apple purchases.  I converted from PC-land some years ago because I liked the idea of "It Just Works".  Well it doesn't anymore.  I have 3 Macs, 2 iPads, 4 iPhones and 2 Apple TV's in my household.  Not to mention a Airport Express supplying them all with wireless signal.  All I wanted was for it to work. 

     

    Whatever.  It is what it is.  Try Plex.  Feels very Zune-like in it's layout and function but I always liked that software so I'm not knocking it.  If you want to watch your movies it'll do the job well.

  • by OzziesMAC,

    OzziesMAC OzziesMAC Feb 3, 2015 9:36 AM in response to 7054
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    Feb 3, 2015 9:36 AM in response to 7054

    I thought plex would require renaming all files for it to work.

    If so that would be a major task to accomplish for some.

  • by 7054,

    7054 7054 Feb 3, 2015 11:28 AM in response to OzziesMAC
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    Feb 3, 2015 11:28 AM in response to OzziesMAC

    Renaming?  Nope.  At least not in my case.  I use iFlicks 2 for all my movies metadata and my music is just straight mp3 or Apple Lossless.  Everything organized by iTunes.  Plex went though it all and matched the meta data perfectly.

  • by OzziesMAC,

    OzziesMAC OzziesMAC Feb 3, 2015 1:03 PM in response to 7054
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    Feb 3, 2015 1:03 PM in response to 7054

    Not talking about the meta-data but the actual file name has to be a certain way for plea to read it.

  • by 7054,

    7054 7054 Feb 3, 2015 5:48 PM in response to OzziesMAC
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    Feb 3, 2015 5:48 PM in response to OzziesMAC

    I see.  I'm not sure about that.  My files are named by movie title but generally contain additional characters pertaining the the rip settings as well.  Plex had no trouble figuring it out.  I have just under 900 movies and I haven't seen even 1 that it missed or read incorrectly. 

  • by Grafton Reed,

    Grafton Reed Grafton Reed Feb 4, 2015 4:40 AM in response to OzziesMAC
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    Feb 4, 2015 4:40 AM in response to OzziesMAC

    PLex reads movies by title.... And I include year in parentheses after movie title. Then, you would only need special formatting for a TV series. E.G......... I list my Seinfeld's for example as S01E01 And create a folder for each season.That is Season Zero One, Episode Zero One, and so on for each particular chronology in the series. Plex also quickly loads and plays my iTunes Music library and playlists flawlessly at home or remotely wherever I have WiFi access. YouTube tutorial will walk you through the setup. Awesome software.

  • by OzziesMAC,

    OzziesMAC OzziesMAC Feb 4, 2015 5:19 AM in response to Lee Farber
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    Feb 4, 2015 5:19 AM in response to Lee Farber

    Exactly, I thought it would required re-writing every single file name in the system in order for plea to make sense

    from is.  It would be a lot easier if Plex would just read the meta-tag that already has all the info in it.  I guess they all

    have draw backs.

  • by Grafton Reed,

    Grafton Reed Grafton Reed Feb 4, 2015 5:41 AM in response to OzziesMAC
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    Feb 4, 2015 5:41 AM in response to OzziesMAC

    Same as with iTunes for example. It takes time to title all the stray songs, match cover art work, and of course, parse through a massive library of songs and create playlists. Some people are sloppy and lazy and unorganized. Others go through the monumental task of cleaning up their library........then......then.....as they add new content, consistently take the time at that moment, to keep it organized, so they don't get behind and end up with a large mess again. There are no shortcuts in life. People that have cool home media setups put some time and effort into building and maintaining it. Kind of a hobby....... a labor of love.

  • by FloridaFlyer,

    FloridaFlyer FloridaFlyer Feb 4, 2015 6:44 AM in response to Lee Farber
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    Feb 4, 2015 6:44 AM in response to Lee Farber

    A solution that consistently works for me is to log out of Home Sharing on the device that isn't working (my iPad Air, for example) and then log back in. It has worked every time within a minute or so.

     

    I have an 8TB iTunes library running from a Drobo 5D attached to a Mac Mini.

     

    Good luck.

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