airplay icon missing in itunes windows solution

Nice work Toploader! I have had this problem for best part of a year. Could use Apple TV from iPad, iPod and iPhone, but not iTunes on PC and Apple Support couldn't resolve. This worked a treat. Cheers

Thanks so much..... Tried everthing the last week, this worked straight away..

Nice one Apple, I have to disable IPV6 just to make your software work.

Wow. After hours of frustration, this worked. Thank you for posting this.

Thanks!!

Have just tried this on Windows 8.1 after having problems and it worked like a charm. I can finally see and share my library on all devices, the remote works on ipad & iPhone and can see the airplay icon in itunes on the PC!!

Thank you Toploader21120 - Airplay would disappear whenever I shut down iTunes, and only worked on reinstall (ie uninstall then install). It now works everytime once I unchecked "Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)".

Dear Toploader,

I suspect there are very many more beneficiaries of your advice than those who reply. I'm one of those beneficiaries -I've had this problem on and off for months and months and months. That it was intermittent made it impossible for me to fix permanently, but your solution seems to have worked, and going on the other thanks posted here I expect it will continue to do so.

Many thanks Toploader -you've made the world a better place, and if we could all do that each day, no matter how large or small the action, what a world it would be!

Lizzie's David

Toploader, you have just solved a problem I have had for more than a year. I have adjusted dozens of settings in iTunes, Norton and Windows, reinstalled all of the software, and was ready to throw my PC out. Since all of our iOS devices seemed to run AirPlay without any problem, I was literally going to buy an iMac tomorrow--just to run iTunes. Since you saved me at least $1500, how can I get you a $50 iTunes gift card/credit? Seriously. Thanks so much.

DUDE!!! After calling Apple Support twice to no avail, and after many weeks of trying to fix this, your solution worked!! I cannot believe that having TCP/IP version 6 enabled causes iTunes HomeSharing to fail to work! This is insane. So what happens when everyone starts using the new TCP/IP v6 on their networks? (hypothetical question)

Anyway, THANK YOU!!!

After a lot of frustration, on looking at other solutions, this one worked. Many thanks for sharing this?

it also worked for me but do I need tcp/ip v6 for anything else?

So far this has fixed it for me, thanks!

I tried the uncheck TCP/IP6 solution provided above but the airplay icon only returned for a while and then wouldn't come back. Also, the apple tv would keep asking me to turn on home sharing when it was already on. The solution I have so far had success with is to disable IPv6 properly as per the microsoft knowledge base at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929852

What I did was option b (at step 5) and type "ffffffff" in the box provided at that point.

So far so good!

After the iTunes 11.4.1 update failed due to the error: "The program can't start because MSVCR80.dll is missing from your computer," I followed the fix at http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5376.

After installation iTunes auto-launched with none of my library files. I closed it, opened iTunes again and received "Windows is now configuring this application." iTunes loaded with all my files, but there was no Airplay icon and none of my home shares showed up.

I repeated the above steps multiple times to no avail.

Disabling IPV6 fixed the problem!

Many thanks!

I had the same problem, IP/v6 is Unchecked in my network setting but

whenever my computer goes to sleep and wakes up airplay stops working, and I needed to restart windows to fix that but now I have a solution.

here is my solution:

1- while iTunes is running go to network setting and CHECK MARK IP/v6 and apply.

2- Close iTunes.

3- revers step 1, meaning go to network setting and Uncheck IP/v6 and apply.

4-Run your iTunes and it should work.

Fantastic! I had to restart the Windows laptop as well, but the AirPlay selector has returned!!