ATV 3 Version 7.0 Home Sharing not woking with Yosemite and iTunes 12

iTunes prefs is just your prefs about what you are sharing.

File --> home sharing is turning sharing off and on

Both of mine are on. I eventually solved my issue by

• turning "file --> home sharing" off
• closing iTunes
• opening iTunes
• turning "file >> home sharing" on

I may or may not need to close and reopen your ios app trying to connect to home sharing. I did some and not others.

wldcrdace:

What you say is incorrect.

ITunes >> Preferences >> Sharing "Share my Library on my Local Network" is a totally separate means of sharing your iTunes library from "Home Sharing". "Share my Library" predates "Home Sharing" (and iCloud sharing) by several years.

"Share my Library" essentially creates a streaming service (you can only stream, you can't use it to copy files between machines) that any Mac/PC running iTunes on your local network can access. You can optionally restrict access to only certain playlists and/or implement a password scheme to restrict access to only those you want to be able to use your library. Of course any DRM protected Music/Video/etc. will only play on the remote machine if that machine is authorized on your account through the iTunes store. This method of sharing is not compatible with iOS devices. You don't need "Home Sharing" turned on to use this sharing method (Apparently Home Sharing must be turned off to use this method).

"Home Sharing" added the ability for iOS devices to access the shared library. It also makes it so you can use to copy songs/albums/video directly between iTunes libraries on different devices. In order to use this method the two machines (Sharing and receiving machines) must both have "home sharing" turned on using the same iTunes account. However, Home Sharing doesn't give you the means to restrict what from your library is shared (sort of a moot point because you have entered in your iTunes account information on both machines). You don't need "Share my Library" turned on to use "Home Sharing" (Apparently Share My Library must be turned off to use Home Sharing).

If you want to stream from an iTunes Library on a different machine and don't want the machine being streamed to to have your iTunes username/password, or if you want to be able to stream from multiple different machines that may be connected to different iTunes accounts, you are better off using the older "Share my Library" from the Preferences menu. That assumes of course you only have Macs/PC's running iTunes that you want to stream between.

If you are willing to have all your machines set to use the same iTunes login to register for Home Sharing, want to be able to use iOS devices to access the iTunes Library and/or be able to directly copy files between iTunes Libraries on different machines, you need to be using "Home Sharing".

The problem is the two methods appear to cause problems (at least for Yosemite/iTunes 12) if they are both enabled at the same time. It would be nice if iTunes were at least be able to give you a warning when you've turned both on at the same time, rather than just causing iTunes on the "receiving" machine to crash.

Here is a link to (a somewhat dated) explanation of various ways to share between iTunes Libraries (Share My Library is #1 and Home Sharing is #2 in the list): http://macmost.com/five-ways-to-share-music-in-itunes.html

I Had to turn both of these sharing methods ON to be able to share my library. Hall can rhyme and reason it out any way hall want to. This is what I did and it worked for me. Good luck with the semantics and have a great day.

Hello, Guys the problem is not in OS yosemite or Wifi. Its in firewall settings, just uncheck the block in firewall options and that's it boom everything will be solved. You can connect apple tv seamlessly even iTunes or mirroring or other third party apps. Dont 4get to like.

Enjoy !!!!🙂

The problem was NOT theFirewall for me. I don't even run the Yosemite's Firewall. The problem was iTunes 12 and it was fixed through 4 different fixes. The Problem might have been the Firewall for YOU however. It seems like several folks had several different bugs .... lol?!

+1 for frustrating experience between appleTV and iMac w/ Yosemite using home sharing. The "computer name" changing on sleep/wake seems to be the issue but its so sketchy I don't know anymore. Today I gave up trying to watch a movie from home sharing so opted to start the movie on iTunes and airplay it to the AppleTV... GREAT - after 30 secs it dies... sigh.

Then sometimes it works seamlessly.

"it just works" is becoming a joke for this long time Apple fan... very frustrating.

Ok Guys, for me the reason im not watching by home sharing is that apple tv is not belongs to me. So i watch by airplay and I can access my iTunes there so no need by home sharing iTunes. Its better to watch in this case because video is running smoothly on iTunes. And if you will watch by third party apps there is a log on quality like skipping frames.

@psguy

you said you give up watching by home sharing and do it by air play, but suddenly disconnect after 30sec. Check maybe because of screensaver just don't activate screensaver select on settings never. hope it will work for you.

I Had to turn both of these sharing methods ON to be able to share my library. Hall can rhyme and reason it out any way hall want to. This is what I did and it worked for me. Good luck with the semantics and have a great day.

Vants, I renamed my machine and had no joy, but I did find this from some other post and the combination of YOUR and someone else's worked:

First, I setup iTunes sharing in preferences in iTunes, and like so many others, of course it did not work. I then signed out of iTunes on all of my devices and signed back in with no success. I reset my ATV, still with the same issue. I Had some time on my hands, so I made an install USB and blew away the partitions and did a CLEAN install of Yosemite and signed into iTunes using Preferences, Sharing, the usual way. I also renamed my machine in the sharing tab in System Preferences. When I went to Mavericks, the same exact thing happened and a clean install fixed it, but this was not the case with Yosemite. I searched the Apple KB and found this guys simple fix and it worked like a champ right away.

"Home sharing not working with ATV 3, Macbook Pro Retina Mid-2012. ATV's software is the latest and MBP is running Yosemite."

Activated Home-sharing via Preferences in iTunes and ATV can't find it.

Tried meanspa's solution and it worked.

To fix this, on your Mac's iTunes turn on Home-sharing via File > Home Sharing > Turn On Home Sharing.

After doing this, my computer's iTunes library popped up in ATV

**Under Preferences and Sharing in iTunes, It was showing that I was sharing my media, but when I went to File > Home Sharing > Turn on Home Sharing (in iTunes), I was not even signed into Home Sharing. Go Figure!? I do not know if it was the renaming of my PC AND signing in through the File menu that did it, but I can now see my media on all of my devices.**

Hi All,

I know there have been a number of solutions proposed to this problem already, but given I faced it again today, and none of the other solutions solved it for me, I thought I'd just report what did solve it for me.

1. I tried renaming the Mac Book Pro on which iTunes resides - but the Apple TV still did not find my Library,

2. I tried ensuring no Mac OS Firewall issues would be causing issues.

So once those attempts failed, I tried "NuthinButGravy's" approach, which as you can read basically involves turning off Home Sharing temporarily at the Apple TV end (approaching it all from the other direction), and then turning it back on again. Immediately it then found the Mac with iTunes running, and Home Sharing enabled, with no problem. I can only assume that the previous "binding" involved some internal identifier that had been changed in the recent iTunes / or Apple TV upgrades, and that whatever that internal identifier had to be "discovered again".

I thought it worthwhile just confirming to the group that this technique described in detail above by "NuthinButGravy" had also worked so well for me.

Kind Regards,

Trevor

Hi all,

To fix the problem, I unplug my router for a couple of seconds. My ATV recognizes my iTunes library immediately when I plug back the router. No need to change any settings on the ATV or Mac. Good luck.

I'm having the same problem with home sharing. How long is it going to take Apple to fix this?!?

Hi Magik-i,

Have you tried disabling Home-Sharing at the Apple TV end, and then re-enabling it? That's what worked for me? Most of the other suggestions I'm seeing in this thread seem to be saying do it the "other way around", disable and then re-enable Home-Sharing at the iTunes end, which didn't work for me, nor did renaming my machine.

But the moment I turned off Home-Sharing at the Apple TV, and then turned it back on again, it saw my Yosemite machine with iTunes straight away.

My suspicion is that under the hoods iTunes 12 or Yosemite has changed the "signature" of how a Home Sharing enabled iTunes 12 machine looks on the network - and therefore your machine doesn't appear to be the same one as it was before to Apple TV. By turning Home Sharing off, and back on again at the Apple TV end, it has to search for machines (publishing servers) all over again - which is sort of the same thing that might be happening when people rename machines? Anyway it worked for me, so maybe that might work for you.

Cheers,

Trevor

I have tried disabling home sharing on the apple tv and re-enabling it. That fixed it once, but it didn't work the next day. I end up having to shut down iTunes on my mac, restart it, restart the Apple TV, rename the mac, disable home sharing on the mac, enable it, ad nauseous in hopes that something will make it work. It's really quite annoying. I've also noticed that since upgrading my mini and macbook to yosemite I cannot use back to my mac to do screen sharing from the macbook to the mini (it does work the other way around). In Mavericks it worked great both ways. Honestly, these last round of OS updates have been horrid and Apple is sure taking their sweet time coming out with fixes...

No worries. For me, and now I guess I should count myself lucky, that has been the permanent fix, so I just wanted to clarify which way you'd done it. Good luck with this issue. It is frustrating I know.