Home Sharing won't load on iOS devices - works fine on AppleTV

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Home Sharing won't load on iOS devices - works fine on AppleTV

I've been struggling with Home Sharing and cannot understand why it simply won't work. I have a relatively large library (25,000 songs/300movies/1000 tv shows). I'm running all Apple devices, all with the latest OS/software versions. AEBS is my router.

Home Sharing has always worked flawlessly from iTunes on my Mac to AppleTV.

When I load up the Videos App on and any of my several iPhones and iPads in the house, my Shared Library always appears...

...however, if I tap to load it...the spinning circle appears and that's where it ends. It will spin endless for several minutes until it Fails or I stop it.

What could be the problem here? I've tried all the basic troubleshooting of turning HS on/off, in iTunes and the iOS devices, restarted every device plenty of times...Nothing.

It used to work intemittently with iOS 6, but not at all on iOS 7.

Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 17, 2013 12:59 PM

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Mar 29, 2014 11:32 PM in response to Turbopgt

Contrary to the marketing, Music or Video using Home Sharing simply does not work on the iPad. I have spent hours on the phone with Apple Care. There is no solution. If you really need to watch video, buy an Apple TV and a small monitor or some other setup. The problem is not with Home Sharing, which works fine between my computers. Neither is it with the Wi-Fi, which I use with the Remote app to load and play the same library that Music stalls on. The problem is with the Music and Video apps, which can only load shared libraries intermittently.

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