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Can current Apple TVs access legacy iTunes library?

We have the majority of our music, videos, and podcasts in our iTunes library (6TB hosted on a cheeze-grater MacPro running Mojave (MacOS 10.14)). The library is shared and we connect to it with our MacBook Pros, iPhone, and Mini.

Can the newer Apple TVs see the older local-network iTunes library or does it only see media streaming from the cloud?

Posted on Jul 1, 2022 3:08 PM

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Posted on Jul 1, 2022 11:35 PM

‘Home Sharing’ to Apple TV box (including latest model) will work with local network iTunes Library on Macs with Mojave (or earlier) just fine.

Use Home Sharing to share media from a computer to other devices - Apple Support

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Aug 2, 2022 10:09 AM in response to Urquhart1244

It took actually getting the Apple TV and plugging it into our network that Home Sharing has to be turned on in the iTunes application, but not where we were used to seeing it: Preferences > Sharing > "Share my files on my local network" tick box.

Now it's working fine and we hope to be able to load up our collection of saved Podcasts.

Can current Apple TVs access legacy iTunes library?

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