HT202190: Use Home Sharing to share iTunes content with other devices

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Marco Mazzoni
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Q: I have IOS 5.1.1 and there is no 'iPod' setting - only 'Music'.

Even though I enable "Home Sharing" it does not show up in my 'Music' icon.  What am I doing wrong?

iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Jul 13, 2012 9:56 PM

by Marco Mazzoni,Solvedanswer
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A:

I was able to answer my own question.

 

There are 2 places to activate 'Home Sharing' in iTunes - 1) in Prefs and 2) under the 'Advanced' menu - where you have to turn on 'Home Sharing' and then 'Set up Home Share'.

 

Once this was done, my iTunes library showed up in my 'Music' app on both my iPhone 3GS and my iPad - both running IOS 5.1.1.

 

Apple's support site does a poor job of documenting this - and the 'Set Up Home Sharing' still refers to IOS 4.3 and the 'iPod' icon in IOS (no longer applicable).

Posted on Jul 14, 2012 10:42 AM

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