Home sharing on iDevices not loading large library

I understand its the same as iTunes, and yes my library is very clean and accurate but to keep it this clean and accurate and change to plex is a huge undertaking. Changing every single file name to a format that makes plex happy is not something I would enjoy doing all over again after getting it working with iTunes.

FloridaFlyer wrote:

A solution that consistently works for me is to log out of Home Sharing on the device that isn't working (my iPad Air, for example) and then log back in. It has worked every time within a minute or so.

I have an 8TB iTunes library running from a Drobo 5D attached to a Mac Mini.

Good luck.

I forgot about this, yes it does help as long as I do it in this order: 1) turn off HomeSharing 2) power down iPad/iPhone 3) restart iPad/iPhone 4) turn Home Sharing on. It takes a while and it only get the iDevice to connect but it still takes at least 20 minutes to load 4000 movies and 6500 TV shows while the remote app can load those in a snap! The issue has also started to affect the Music application as well, I have to go through the same hoops to get the music to load (20000 songs) and again the remote app list the same songs from the same computer in a snap! I use this solution if I have time to waste but the easiest has been to go old-fashion by connecting the iDevice (with cable, wireless sync is slower) and copy the media file to the device. The only thing that is still not yet broken is watching through AppleTVs (2nd gen or current gen) but I am afraid that Apple will mess that up soon and I am desperately looking for an alternative. I really do not want to change (20+ years of experience and investment both at home and work) but Apple is pushing all the right buttons for me to dump them and go spend my $ somewhere else....

Maybe it would be worth investing into something like the aforementioned iFlicks. You can have it run through your entire library and within the preferences is the option to rename the files.

I mean it screws some stuff up so you have to keep an eye on it. Movies it almost always gets right but TV Shows are a bit harder. Yo have to correct it on episode and season numbers occasionally.

Tried your step by step and 3 different devices and it still does not work.

1. Sign out of "Home Sharing" DONE

2. Power down iDevice. DONE

3. Restart iDevice. DONE

4. Turn On "Home Sharing". DONE

5. Launch Video App. DONE

6. Select "Shared" DONE

7. Takes about 20 minutes to load your size library... all of my video apps crashed in under 5 minutes.

Same results I have had ever since library got over 100.

Does not work for me either

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It just doesn't work. Apple has an outsized problem with bugs in their software and they focus only on flashy new features to make money like apple pay. They really do not care if your already owned software or media works if its not a new marketable feature or revenue stream. There are problems like this across all mac devices, I'm done trying to workaround the brokenware which never gets fixed. They want to steer you into buying movies and music and keeping them on the cloud, or get iTunes radio or whatever. So, take my advice, don't bother with home sharing on iDevices. It will take a sea change at Apple to fix something like that.

I agree, so I am looking for another speak alternative. Alex seems to be the next best thing but renaming all those files to work with lex might be a bit hard for me to consider at this time. Then I need to know how to stream the content to various devices which hopefully should not be to difficult.

Interestingly,

This work-around worked for me on the iPhone but not the iPad. and it looks like it works for some people but not others.

i reinstalled my ipad today even bought a new airport extreme , i have a mac mini with a just under 3TB library and i cant get it to load on any of my ipads .

Works fine on appletv and macbookpro. How can thsi pass QA at apple? -It's been broken for several release of ios.:

Just add it to a long list of things that have gone bad at Apple.

iPad can't load large movie libraries

Firewire external drives won't spin down

Home Network sharing drops off when Yosemite goes into sleep mode (Bonjour Sleep Proxy Issues)

WiFi unstable since launch of Yosemite

Something has seriously gone bad at Apple QC IMHO.

I have got the same issue. Home sharing not loading on iPads with latest os. Have tried all the different "fixes" without success.

I fortunately got old ipad and that works, so does AppleTV V2.

Have installed Plex and hope that will solve it for now until the large company understand that their promises do not match their deliveries.

No need to rename everything if your library is clean. I used iFlick and got all the meta data cleaned up. installed PLex and was up an running in less then a hour. And it works even though I had to buy the iOS player. Maybe apple should buy a media server and get this sorted

That's not what I read nor what I have been told.

Plex requires each file to be named a specific way for it to work properly

plus you need to add a release (year) on each file name:

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200381023-Naming-Movie-files

I do not need iFlick since my Meta-Tags are just fine with ATV, unless Plex

requires something specific their also.

Also does Plex require you to have the poster even if it's already in the meta-tag?

OzziesMAC wrote:

That's not what I read nor what I have been told.

Plex requires each file to be named a specific way for it to work properly

plus you need to add a release (year) on each file name:

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200381023-Naming-Movie-files

Its not a “requirement” nor “must” it be done this way.

In order to correctly sort and display & get the correct info from the Plex database, , the info needs to be consistent.

See this -> https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201019537-Rename-a-badly-named-file

and this -> https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/categories/200028098

Home Sharing has simply stopped showing new songs added in iTunes. I have on the order of 97,000 tracks. I can't get Home Sharing to load at all on my iPad Air 2, running iOS 8.1.3. But when it loads on my desktop, it simply doesn't reveal any files added in the past few days, under Recently Added or in the library at all. There must be an upper limit, even if it's unintentional. Any workarounds that don't require starting from scratch with some other music player?