PC Cannot connect to Home Sharing Apple 4K TV

SOLVED!! --- I was having issues with putting music on my phone today as iTunes kept freezing up on "waiting to copy files" and a couple different stages. So I uninstalled it, did a web search for a direct download of iTunes for Windows (not from the Microsoft Store), and installed that. I rebooted, relogged in to iTunes, turned Home Sharing off and on and then tried Apple TV 4K's Home Sharing folder again... eureka! It showed up.

Bottom line? DO NOT download iTunes from the Microsoft store. :(

Thanks for attempting to help guys! And even though I sprung for a whole new mesh network, I think I'll be much, much better off with having that in my house than not. Silver lining, I suppose.

I think there's gotta be something conflicting here. Before I setup this new wireless network at home, I found that my itunes library on my PC laptop (which I stopped using in favor of a new desktop) was being seen by my Apple TV 4K with no problems. I migrated my iTunes library over to the new computer and now it won't show up.

The only thing I think is odd about the new PC and Windows 10, is I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've been forced to install iTunes from the Windows app store. Even Apple's website pushes people to install it from the Windows store. However they're installing iTunes on Windows 10 now, it doesn't seem to even install it in the same location on your computer as it used to. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it or not. But I've seen some solutions that suggest messing with file locations and such, but I can't even find the application folder on this computer.

My other concern is that, because I copied the library file over from the laptop to this desktop, there might be something funky with that? But I've done it before from computer to computer and I've still been able to do Home Sharing. So I just don't know. :(

Yeah, I think I did that by disabling the anti-virus momentarily. It had no effect. I suppose there could be other security settings to disable, but I'm not sure what else they'd be? (Non-Apple home computer-to-computer network sharing works though)

It could be a stronger network, sure. But I kind of doubt that's the issue. I'll try a mesh network though, since I've had signal strength issues before. But at the moment, the signal has been pretty consistently strong. I honestly doubt that's the problem at all.

Well, I bought a TP-Link mesh network setup on Amazon and installed it last night. The signal seems stronger throughout the house for sure. But I tried getting my Apple TV 4K to see my library and it STILL doesn't. :( It's so frustrating.

ok Thanks! I swear that I just tried all of that now - following your explicit directions - and it still doesn’t work.

I just tried turning off home sharing on the ATV4k and then back on - relogging in. Still nothing.

I just checked and the iTunes running is 12.10.7.3 ... although I’m not sure that matters at this point.

I'll check it out, thanks!