Music home sharing no longer available after ios 8.4 update?

I second your motion. I too thought something was wrong and couldn't figure why all of a sudden I couldn't find my home library. Thank GOD for these discussion boards. I was getting ******. Seriously though, what's up with Apple just removing it?

I suspect the deletion was for one of two reasons. Either it was deleted by mistake (seems odd), or Apple somehow thought everyone would be so enthralled with it's streaming music service that they would never want to use Home Sharing again (even odder). In any case, Apple has indicated they will restore HS in iOS 9. Guess we'll see.

Apple *hoped* people would just acceppt it and go get a music subscription.

But I still like to own what I pay for, and I bought a lot of music and movies from the iTunes store. Storage is cheap these days. With just 150 € for a 5 TB hard drive I can store and stream every media I bought or may buy in the next ten years without ever needing an external server, and I will continue doing it this way. If apple is going to make this impossible, that will just result in me purchasing music and movies somewhere else.

I do it pretty much the same way. Big hard drive connected to a Mini, lots of music streamed to various devices in the house via Home Sharing. When I'm away I either take music on the iPhone or iPad, or just use Pandora, which I love. But I don't think you have to worry about Apple making it hard for you going forward. Home Sharing will be back, or something like it. Anyway, seems like there's always a way to get things done. 🙂

Its good that Apple has given us a date. I'm very happy that such forums do have a function. The solution will make us all happy.

I saw a T-shirt the other day.

If that's the solution, then I want my problem again.

Waiting for a new up-date:) SEPTEMBER

I hear ya'. I guess I tend to set my sights a little lower these days. Apple does so much, and has so many people to try to please, I just lower my expectations. The way I see it, they've given me so much over the many years, I just wait until new stuff comes out, and if I like, I buy. Small problems with hardware and software don't bother me either, as I know it will get fixed. And if not, well… life goes on. Cheers!

Here's another option: Upload your entire music library to Google Play Music, which is free. Install Google Play on iOS device. Voila. Entire library accessible. Yes, you're out of luck if you lose your internet connection, but you don't have to pay Apple for Apple Music to put your music library in the cloud, either.

Google Play is not an option for those of us who don't live in the US. In Canada, at least, there's no Google Play streaming. (along with no Google Voice, Hulu, Pandora and 99% of the Netflix library). At any rate, Apple is one of the only games in town for those of us north of the border.

HI all,

i am not bringing anything new to this thread, just wanted to express my frustration at loosing the home sharing capability over wifi. As many user have already stated it does not make sense to remove this feature from the new iOS.

The whole essence of using ios seems to have been lost with this feature removed. It was a pleasure to be able to listen to my entire music library from any of my devices. With this feature removed, it feels like the magic is gone.

i Strongly urge Apple to reintroduce this feature in their next update.

thanks.

thanks for the links

you are right !

we must do our best to change that move

Well, I just updated to iOS 9 on my iPad and lo and behold, Home Sharing has returned. You'll find it in an odd place, the Title menu at the top.

Once I got it selected and it loaded my library (with the usual slowness - gee, you think they could have improved load times for those of us with large libraries, since that's why we use Home Sharing in the first place!), it worked just fine.

Welcome back, Home Sharing!

Yes same here, thought it went a bit faster and more importantly it didn't stall.

Believe it or not, on my iPhone, it still doesn't work! I keep getting the message every time I try and play something that 'You do not have permission for the selected resource'.

So they brought the feature back with a bug in it with larger libraries. This is incredibly frustrating.

You're is working? So what I'm I doing wrong.

Just up-dated to 9.0. Home sharing is back. But I found this alarm. What do I need to do to over come this?

Just up-dated itunes 12.3 on the PC. Rebooted the ipad and the PC.

Tried again. Same problem. The library loaded the first time, since then it has become very slow, most of the time it stops loading at about 25%.

Have I missed anything.

A Few things worth checking.

Check both devices are on the same wi-fi network, I have a guest network and my main network.

Check your Apple ids match on computer and device, when I upgraded to iOS 9 it inserted my iCloud id rather than my iTunes id.

A few tricks from the past, restart both computer and device.

If that fails log out and back into home sharing on both devices.

PITA I know and should not have to be done but they usually worked.

I was hoping for a revamped system but it looks like we just have the old system back.