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AirPlay/Apple TV won't stream iPod or Pandora with iPhone 4

For some odd reason, I am unable to use AirPlay to get either my iPod music or Pandora to play on Apple TV using my iPhone 4. The AirPlay icon appears in both apps and I am able to select "Apple TV" upon tapping on AirPlay, but neither of the two will appear on my TV, nor do I hear the audio. What's even more strange, I am successfully able to use AirPlay with YouTube and the photos on my iPhone but Pandora and my iPod music won't work.

Any suggestions?

Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jan 12, 2011 9:20 AM

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Jan 13, 2011 8:42 PM in response to newagemac

I tried rebooting my phone several times, rebooted Apple TV, still not working. I also tried my buddy's iPhone 4 as well just to make sure it wasn't my phone and even my buddy's phone wouldn't work. And like I said, what's weird is that I'm able to watch youtube via airplay just fine on my Apple TV, and I'm also able to do the same thing with the photos on my iPhone. But for some reason, I cannot use Pandora or the music I have on my phone.
I don't know if maybe there's something on the settings I'm not doing right...

Jan 23, 2011 10:17 AM in response to hdpaul

Same problem occurring here, although not consistently. Apple TV had worked with AirPlay since day one, but failed today. Nothing could get it to work. I reset settings, and then it was fine for a short while but failed again. Restarted the Apple TV and it's intermittently working. It sometimes appears to ignore the iMac home-shared content, too, so I'm thinking this in my case could be a networking issue (i.e. cruddy router) rather than anything else. Maybe check that's not the case for you.

Jan 25, 2011 11:30 AM in response to CraigG

I am not 100% positive, but I believe you have to have iTunes running on the network so that your iPhone can be "discovered" and Airpay can work through Apple TV. Try it and see if that is in fact the case. I always have iTunes running and I have had no problems with Airplay, or anything else for that matter. To me, the ability to play Pandora trough Apple TV to my HDMI AV receiver and surround sound is worth the $100 for Apple TV by itself. The floating photo screen saver on the HDTV, using photos from my PC photo library, is not too shabby either.

AirPlay/Apple TV won't stream iPod or Pandora with iPhone 4

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