Q: Unable to play Shared Library on iMac from iPhone 5 or iPad
I have enabled home sharing on my iMac, and turned on home sharing, on both my iPhone5 and iPad. All using the same (only one I have) Apple ID.
On the iPhone, I can see and have selected the shared library on my iMac, and can now see all the songs. But when I try to play any of the content, the song tries to load, then quickly skips to the next song. And it keeps doing this, continuing to skip through my library, unable to actually play any of the shared content. Its almost as if there is no actual audio file, just the entry in the Library XML/ITL files.
On my iPad, I do not have the "more" button in the Music app, to even choose the shared library on my iMac.
I have gone through all the troubleshooting articles I can find here, and seem to be going in circles.
Have tried restarting apps and rebooting all devices.
What now?
iMac 24": circa 2009, OSX 10.6.8
iPhone5: iOS 7.1.1
iPad: iOS 7.1
Posted on Nov 21, 2014 11:52 AM