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iTunes/Music Home sharing does not work on my iPad Air

No matter what I do I cannot use Music.app on my iPad Air to play music from my iTunes Library with Home-Sharing switched on. The Library name correctly appears in the Music.app source list after the loading symbol takes an age to complete. When it appears to have connected to the Library on my Mac, contents of my Library are shown in the app but I cannot play anything. If I select an albumn and press Play the Music.app merely cycles rapidly through all the track titles of the Album and then stops. Nothing plays. I've tried dozens of times to get this to work, even rebuilding my iTunes Library. Nothing seems to cure the problem. I can connect and play via Plex which is just plain daft seeing Apple designed all the software/hardware but they, themselves, cannot correctly code for this basic functionality.


Also, not all Album cover artwork is displayed correctly.


It seems many of the things I bought the iPad for are non-functional and the tablet is virtually useless. I can't beleive Apple would produce software and hardware which is specifically made to work harmoniously but obviously doesn't.


Any help, here, please?


I'm also having problems with Bluetooth connecting to my Mac Pro (2008)... Namly, it will not.

Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9), nVidia 780GTX and SSD Fusion drive

Posted on Apr 21, 2014 3:23 AM

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Apr 22, 2014 12:37 PM in response to Diavonex

Nothing, not even iOS 7.1.1, has rectified the problem. Once in while my entire Library will load, but this is not consistent. Most often I have to wait around 15 mins while the Lib loads only to find nothing plays. Reading threads it seems quite a few people with large iTunes Libraries suffer this exact same problem. Perhaps they are more interested in people shelling out for iTunes Match. (Bet that works).

May 4, 2014 10:58 AM in response to Neal Jackson

Agreed. I am having the same problem. I've turned off the firewall bebooted the router and the computer. Not running a Mac but am on Windows 8, but am also having a similar problem with Apple TV. It won't conmnect to my computer either. I am seeing the library from my iPad but I can't even get into HomeShare from my Apple TV. So something is defintely screwy.

iTunes/Music Home sharing does not work on my iPad Air

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