Home sharing not working in iOS 6

Thank you so much. This has been driving me nuts. I turned off auto lock. Walked way and within 10 min my libary was there. Of all things, I didn't think the lock feture would stop it from joining. Still ***** that it use to take me a minute with the same libary before ios 6. Just glad it is now working. Patients and a little knowledge. Too bad apple could not just make it all work togeather. Thank you again.

After period of work and updating to new ios, home sharing downloads partialy AGAIN. Must restart and relog.

Was also having problems with home sharing after updating to iOS 6.1.1. Here was my solution:

- Update iTunes on PC to newest version

- Enable Home Sharing on iTunes

- Sign out of Home Sharing on iPhone

- Sign in to Home Sharing on iPhone

- Open Music or Videos on iPhone to verify it works

- Done

I did something for it not to work again, so I've been trying to figure out why it is so inconsistent. I did manage to get it to work again by:

- Turn off home sharing in iTunes

- Enable home sharing again by signing in

- Exit iTunes

- on iPad, sign out and sign in again to enable home sharing

- Open Videos or Music App (no home sharing showing yet because iTunes was exited)

- Open iTunes (home sharing on iPad video/music app pops up automatically)

Not sure why it worked, but it did.

I just got the iphone 5 and tried home sharing on my wifes iphone. Needless to say it was not working. After some reading and tinkering this worked for me:

Signed out of home sharing on all devices and itunes.

opened itunes and opened; edit>preferences>sharing

check sharing on my network

check entire library

resign on to home sharing

this worked and it loaded instantly, considering that I tried the auto lock off option and waited 20 min. for nothing. Sharing wasn't even showing up on my "more" lists in my music app.

On a side note, I had Bonjour service turned off on my services start up. MAKE SURE IT IS ON AND RUNNING. You can not share anything with people without Bonjour running. Hope this works, cause this was driving me crazy!

I have been having a lot of problems and have never got home sharing to work - until today.

I am running a Mac Mini (mid 2010) 2.4ghz, 8gb RAM with OSX 10.8.2, iTunes 11.0.2 - I wanted to share on an iPad 2 (iOS 6.1.2) and iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1.2).

When I have tried previously I have never got past the half circle when loading on the phone and nowhere at all on the iPad. I have tried everything suggested in the forums, checked routers, logged in and out, dis-associated everything and re-associated everything. This went on for about 2 months on and off.

Eventually I gave up and downloaded StreamToMe, but it bugged me and the ugly interface frustrated me.

I decided to have another try this morning. I made sure the iPhone and iPad had a good charge, signed out of home sharing on both and force quit the Music app on both.

I then turned off home sharing in iTunes on the Mac Mini and quit iTunes, restarted iTunes and turned home sharing back on.

I tried the iPhone first, firstly I set auto-lock to 'never' in my settings. I signed back in to home sharing in settings and selected more in the Music app. I got the usual half way round the circle and it appeared to stop. This time I just left it and went and did someting else. In fact I forgot about the phone and only realised when I came back in the room half an hour later and the screen was lit up. To my amazement home sharing had loaded!

All artwork was correct and all 50 000 songs and 50 odd audiobooks where there! This had never happened before. I can only think it took and age to read everything in (up to half an hour) and I had never had the patience before.

I then tried the iPad with the same procedure. Set auto-lock to 'never' signed in to my itunes account in settings and selected 'more' and 'home sharing'. The usual thing happened the circle did not even appear but I just got the loading animation. Again I just left it. I checked after 10 minutes and nothing had changed, I checked again after about 25 minutes and boom!! Whole library was there with artwork!!

This is the first progress I have ever had on the iPad. I had previosuly managed to get about 250 songs on to the phone mostly without artwork.

I don't know if anything has changed behind the scenes or even if this will last but I'm certainly enjoying it while it lasts! I am posting this just so others can try it and see if it helps them. It has to be worth a try and is very simple.

I will update this of course if it all comes crashing down or if (fingers crossed) it keeps working.

Could the answer to my problems really be my own impatience?! It seems a bit simplistic but I have tried so many other things that I'm still in shock!

Not sure if this has been discussed yet, and apologies if it has, but I finally got my stuff working today after many, many weeks of issues. Maybe it'll help a lot of people out, or maybe it'll help 1 or 2 people, or maybe it won't help anybody...anyway:

I had the same symptoms as everyone else. One day my AppleTV worked fine and home sharing was great and I was happy. The next day it stopped working, I couldn't see my shared library, and it kept displaying a message telling me to enable home sharing in iTunes on my computer. I googled the problem, saw everything else that people were trying and I tried it all: the reboots, the resets, firewall port rules, etc. No luck.

Then today I tried using home sharing via my iPhone, but couldn't get it to work. This is when it finally dawned on me that perhaps my router was to blame. My ISP is Verizon, and I lease the router from them. Another google search incuding "verizon router" led me to a post by somebody recommending that we disable the "IGMP proxy" setting on our Verizon routers. So I logged into my router, found the IGMP proxy setting, disabled it, and immediately my iTunes shared library was visible to my iPhone and AppleTV.

I don't recall if I updated my router's firmware around the time I started having the issues, so I don't know if Verizon or Apple is to blame, but as far as I'm concerned that's beside the point now.

IGMP PROXY! IGMP PROXY! I have no idea what it does, and hope it isn't terribly important. But disabling it fixed my issue.

I hope this might help somebody!

Ah, Finally!

I've been unable to access home sharing music on my ipod touch for months now. As of now, I can access my 10,000 song library Consistently. The bonus is it only takes about 3 minutes to load.

After following this thread for some time and trying all the methods (which unfortunately never panned out), the trick for me was in the WIFI setup on the ipod itself. I read on another post that setting the HTTP Proxy from Auto to OFF worked. Indeed, it did for me. Doing this alongside the above mentioned actions of (unsharing the itunes music library then resharing) & (signing off the ipod home sharing then back on) does the job.

I've been able to reproduce this issue so feel much more confident in the fix.

I hope this helps alleviate frustration others have/are experiencing with this as I completly relate to the situation.

-Best

P.S. - I'm running the latest IOS 6.1.2 with ITunes running on Windows 7

**Update** to previous post. It works, which is a big leap from not showing up at all, but I do notice that not all songs/albums are in there. 😟

I haven't read through all the 13 pages of this thread, but those messages that I have read don't seem to duplicate the particular circumstances that I have, which is as follows:

My music server is an old iBook G3, a PPC machine running OS 10.4.1 and iTunes 9.2.1.

On my MacBook Air (with OS 10.8.2 and iTunes 11.0.1) I have no difficulty seeing the library that is shared from the iBook.

On my iPad mini (iOS 6.1.3) I can see the shared iBook library in Remote, and I can control it. In Music, I can see and use the Mac Air's shared library; however, I cannot see the iBook shared library. Which is precisely what I would like to be able to do!

I find this a truly weird combination of connections. Evidently the iBook is sharing successfully (because I can see its library on the Air). Evidently the iPad is receiving shared libraries (because I can play the Air library, and remotely control the iBook library). Why on earth can't I play the iBook library on the iPad? Why would it be that iTunes 9.2.1 can communicate with Remote but not with Music?

Any suggestions would be warmly welcomed.

I've just recently started getting issues around about the time of updating all the iPads and iPhones belonging to the family to 6.1.2, it just seemed to go very odd.

At first it was saying that there was no music at all, but then it only showed a handful of artists and albums compared to the hundreds of albums I know I have. I do wonder if it is down to the iOS update as I've not updated my AppleTV for a long time (I rolled back after an update after it screwed with the wifi connection on the AppleTV, not updated it since in fear of it completely ruining the hardware).

I have tried rebooting iOS products, shutting down and rerunning Music, logging out and back into home sharing to no avail.

I'm kinda pulling my hair out here as my partner loves to have music on her iPad or iPhone as she's around the house and doesn't want to try and install all the music onto them (which is pretty much impossible considering I have a few hundred Gb of music on my PC).

Thing is it seems to be music only issue as such, movies and TV shows come up fine (although TV shows now don't show up in episode order any more).

So what gives? Is there anything I'm missing? I've not update my wireless router and it was working fine.

UPDATE: As I was typing this, I updated to 6.1.3 as I thought it may have fixed it...and it has made it even worse, now home sharing for music AND video has stopped and I keep getting the message "Cannot connect to Media Library"

Home sharing is an epic fail with ios 6. Unfortunately apple refuses to fix this. Obviously seen as a non priority. I hate the way 'updates' break existing features and apple are notorious for this. It's definetely an ios issue rather than an iTunes issue as home sharing works more or less fine with ios 5.1.1 and sharing from iTunes to Apple TV is spot on. For me home sharing does work on the phone ios 6 after a slow initial connect but TV shows often all over the place with some jumbled art. Music is worse with only a handful of artists showing up. I can fix it by signing out of home sharing on iTunes and devices and then restarting. It will be fine for a while but always eventually starts to corrupt and do the same again. Basically I think ios device is doing some kind of caching that eventually leads to corruption. It's garbage that apple ignores - I'd rather have this sorted than they waste time programming Siri with another accent or some other useless 'new' feature. Make sure your existing functions work first!!!! I think by now we all know ios 6 will never work properly with it, we can only hope ios 7 will work - ios 6 what with this, passcode issues, maps, wifi issues for many has been a total disaster!

Without trawling through all theposts on here I thought i'd share my success to see if this helps anyone.

I have been having problems with home sharing since September 2012. I have expereinced all the symptoms - slow loading, only half a dozen artists, circle of doom - as well as issues with Apple TV not playing the next track e.t.c. I had tried everything. Nothing seemed to work.

I then stumbles apon an old post from 2011 regarding ipv6. The post indicated that this should be turned off within the network adapter settings for the PC running the shared library.

I was not hopeful as everything I had tried had not resolved the issue but I thought "what the ****...it's gotta be worth a try and it is really easy". I therefore opened network and sharing, clicked on change adapter settings and removed the tick from ipv6 protocol. I restarted the PC, opened my library and went to my ipad. You wont beleive this but the library loaded in no time at all, all the artists were there and the albums played fine. I thought this might be just lucky so I treid the same on my iPhone and on my Apple TV. All worked fine.

To cut a long story short I have now been running home sharing trouble free for the last 4 days.

So if you have not already tried this simple fix I suggest you give it a go. I hope it helps some of you.

I disabled ipv6 on my Mac Server.

The improvement I could observe:

• Loading time till the library was accessible did indeed improve - just as tommy.stranack did mention above.
• On my iPad, all content was available 🙂
• On my iPhone, some of the content was still missing (some audiobooks did not appear which were available on the iPad 😢

Overall, disabling IPV6 did improve, but did not fix it for me entirely.

BTW: I did the disabling in this way

• Open terminal
• Enter networksetup -setv6off Ethernet in the terminal and confirm with return
• Verify in systemsettings, you should have IPV6 now disabled (there is a new option "OFF" in the setting for IPV6

To re-enable enter in terminal networksetup -setv6automatic

Edit:

To do that for WI-FI, the terminal command is networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi

I tried disabling ipv6 on my wifi adapter (win 7 ultimate 64 bit) butit makes little or no difference. My home share from iTunes always has loaded on my iphone and iPad. But it's a bit slow at times. And it always only displays a handful of artists along with quite a bit if messed up art on music and TV shows. I believe it's a specific ios 6 issue because my wife's iPad running 5.1.1 loads it all fine. Also my Apple TV 2nd gen is served perfectly by iTunes via home share. It's just the ios 6 iphone and iPad that have issues. I believe it's some kind of caching on ios6 that corrupts after a while. I can fix it by messing about with signing out if home sharing on devices and iTunes and reboots and re signing into them in no particular order. Somewhere along the way I guess this clears some kind if cache on the phone and iPad. It'll be fine for a few days but always then corrupts eventually. Ios 6 just does not play nice on home sharing and apple obviously see it as low priority or refuse to acknowledge an issue exists