Home sharing on iDevices not loading large library

I've been getting board with this on iOS8. PITA. (As is iTunes in general these days ... great for not playing purchased content).

Try this :

On iOS device.

Quit Music app (double-click Home button the drag upwards)

Sign out of Home Sharing (Settings-Music)

Reset Network Settings (Settings-General-Reset-Network Settings)

Sign in to your WiFi (all network settings have been reset, so you're no longer connected)

Re-join Home Sharing (Settings-Music)

Open Music app and load your shared library

Thanks, tried your steps and video library starts to load the covert art and program closes a few minutes into that process.

Unfortunately no change. I have an iPad Air 2 128 GB and and iPad 1 32GB both do the same thing. My iPhone 6 however works just fine.

Same here. Windows 7 PC iTunes serving media to:

2 Apple TV's - Latest OS versions - Both work great

2 iPhone 4s - 8.1.2 - slow or doesn't load at all, useless

2 iPad 2's - 8.1.2 - slow or doesn't load at all, useless

1 iPad Mini - 8.1.1 - slow or doesn't load at all, useless

Called tech support. They talked me into reseting one of the iPad 2s to factory defaults and "starting from scratch." Didn't work.

Basically, this feature has been broken since iOS 6 days. I'm now going to try re-building the library and slowly adding content to see if some ID3 tags or their equivalent in M4V/MP4 files may have corruption that causes this. I have a 1.75 TB library of movies, TV shows, and music that comes from our own ripped optical media and a handful of iTunes purchases. Have been using iTunes to tag music, and MetaX to tag DVD and BR media.

I am similar to you

3 ATC - Works Great

2 iPhones - Slow or doesn't load at all

2 iPads 8.x - Slow or doesn't load at all

1 iPad Air 2 - Slow or doesn't load at all

1 iPad 1 5.x - Slow or doesn't load at all

Tech support has been useless, Checked my ID3 tags and nothing.

Everything is good, the problem is that the iDevices are simply not working

with large libraries.

i've had some success by (unfortunately) pairing down my video library to 80'ish videos. Then on my ios device, I go to Settings, General, Video and sign out of the sharing with my apple id; then signing back in and re-launching the videos app. Loading time for the shared library is now 15-30seconds.

my original issue started when the video count was up over 100 vids, there seems to be a tipping point where the shared loading either works (although not too quick) or completely remains stuck in time.

note that the meta-data (screen picture) of the videos (still) does not show up, but i can live with this.

using ipad retina with ios 8.x now... same problem exists on my ios7 ipad (same partial solution works as well)..

hope this helps

I am seeing the same issues. I just setup a new library on new computer and saw great speeds for a week, but now the library load times on I-devices are crap. I have iPads and iPhones all with these issues. NO issues on Apple TVs, though. This all has to do with IOS. Why can't Apple fix this?

Same problem here. Fine on Apple TV and Mac Air...exactly the same problems as others on this thread with iPad, iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 (previously with iPhone 4). Used to work great on iOS 6!

Waiting [im]patiently for a fix!

Same problem as everyone else here as well....2 years later and Apple is still ignoring this problem....I have no hope left and no real alternative is available for my home that relies on 4 appleTV (plea is not playing well with appleTVs). If my iPad 2 can list my 4000 movies and 6500 TV shows quickly when using the Remote app, then the Music and Video applications should be able to do the same! I invested heavily in Apple since 1995 and had a wonderful media sharing/network system in my home, since iOS6 it has been problems after problems up to the sad state we are in today...I am stuck because I invested so much (would have to replace computers, airport extreme, time capsules, appleTVs, iPads, iPods, iPhones) but I no longer advise anyone to buy AppleTVs or iPads.

i just did a test on my home network using my girlfriend's iPhone 6+ and my 25,0000 song on iTunes 12.1 and it loads on her phone in about one minute. Still no joy using my first gen iPad mini or iPhone 4s. Running iOS 8. Works flawlessly with Apple TV. I should note I use a 4th gen Apple Router and hardware my Apple TV to the Router.

I gave up after over a year of this. Just yesterday I installed Plex sever on my Mac mini and paid the 4.99 for the android app for my TV and again for all my iDevices. It works well. It's becoming harder to make the argument for all my Apple purchases. I converted from PC-land some years ago because I liked the idea of "It Just Works". Well it doesn't anymore. I have 3 Macs, 2 iPads, 4 iPhones and 2 Apple TV's in my household. Not to mention a Airport Express supplying them all with wireless signal. All I wanted was for it to work.

Whatever. It is what it is. Try Plex. Feels very Zune-like in it's layout and function but I always liked that software so I'm not knocking it. If you want to watch your movies it'll do the job well.

Renaming? Nope. At least not in my case. I use iFlicks 2 for all my movies metadata and my music is just straight mp3 or Apple Lossless. Everything organized by iTunes. Plex went though it all and matched the meta data perfectly.

I see. I'm not sure about that. My files are named by movie title but generally contain additional characters pertaining the the rip settings as well. Plex had no trouble figuring it out. I have just under 900 movies and I haven't seen even 1 that it missed or read incorrectly.

PLex reads movies by title.... And I include year in parentheses after movie title. Then, you would only need special formatting for a TV series. E.G......... I list my Seinfeld's for example as S01E01 And create a folder for each season.That is Season Zero One, Episode Zero One, and so on for each particular chronology in the series. Plex also quickly loads and plays my iTunes Music library and playlists flawlessly at home or remotely wherever I have WiFi access. YouTube tutorial will walk you through the setup. Awesome software.

Exactly, I thought it would required re-writing every single file name in the system in order for plea to make sense

from is. It would be a lot easier if Plex would just read the meta-tag that already has all the info in it. I guess they all

have draw backs.

Same as with iTunes for example. It takes time to title all the stray songs, match cover art work, and of course, parse through a massive library of songs and create playlists. Some people are sloppy and lazy and unorganized. Others go through the monumental task of cleaning up their library........then......then.....as they add new content, consistently take the time at that moment, to keep it organized, so they don't get behind and end up with a large mess again. There are no shortcuts in life. People that have cool home media setups put some time and effort into building and maintaining it. Kind of a hobby....... a labor of love.