pmmatthews
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Q: Home Sharing Music Still Not Working after IOS 9 ?

Hi

I have upgraded to IOS 9, yet I still do not see the Shared Music in Music

I have followed all instructions :

- Turn on [Home Sharing] in ITunes 12

- Used the same [AppleID] in [Settings] >[Music] >[HomeSharing]

- But , when I go to the Music app's Library Tab, click the [Category Selector] (which defaults to [Artists])  ,

and tapping the [Category Selector] does NOT bring up the [HomeSharing] Option

 

I have tried this on  iTunes12 with my PC, iMac , Macbook, and IOS9 on iPhone & iPad

 

Still not able to get [Home Sharing] working with my Music

 

I know Home Sharing Music was switched off in 8.4, then it was enabled in IOS9 BETA,

but not sure if it has been removed in IOS 9?

 

thanks for your help,

regards

Paul


iPhone 6, iOS 9, ITUNES12 Home Sharing Music

Posted on Sep 17, 2015 3:50 PM

by Redbirds_STL,Solvedanswer
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A:

Try restarting your router.  I spent too much time restarting all my Apple devices with nothing to show for it, then restarted my router and home sharing works on everything, iPhone, Apple TV, and Macbook Air

Posted on Sep 17, 2015 4:49 PM

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Q: Home Sharing Music Still Not Working after IOS 9 ?

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  • by Redbirds_STL,Solvedanswer

    Redbirds_STL Redbirds_STL Sep 17, 2015 4:49 PM in response to pmmatthews
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    Sep 17, 2015 4:49 PM in response to pmmatthews

    Try restarting your router.  I spent too much time restarting all my Apple devices with nothing to show for it, then restarted my router and home sharing works on everything, iPhone, Apple TV, and Macbook Air

  • by pmmatthews,

    pmmatthews pmmatthews Sep 18, 2015 12:08 AM in response to Redbirds_STL
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    Sep 18, 2015 12:08 AM in response to Redbirds_STL

    Thank you, for your help.

    I re-started my router and all works well now, thanks.

  • by TheUltimateLink84,

    TheUltimateLink84 TheUltimateLink84 Sep 18, 2015 5:44 AM in response to pmmatthews
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    Sep 18, 2015 5:44 AM in response to pmmatthews

    My issue is that I don't keep any music on my phone, and because of such, the menu to switch to Home Sharing isn't available. Am I missing something?

    I've already restarted my phone, my server, and my router. Do I really have to put music on my phone just to be able to connect to my shared library?

     

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  • by kaitlanfrominverell,

    kaitlanfrominverell kaitlanfrominverell Sep 18, 2015 6:04 PM in response to TheUltimateLink84
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    Sep 18, 2015 6:04 PM in response to TheUltimateLink84

    Hello, I am like you. I keep no music in ipad and stream only when im home. I could not get it working initially either in ios 9. I took my que from you though. I connected ipad to mac and loaded one song only on. Then unplugged etc. Tapped my music on ipad in music app, then gave me songs option in centre top of screen, when tapping you get a drop down that gives you a home sharing option which it did not before. So it seams unless you have one song or more physically on your ipad it wont give you option to home share.

     

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  • by kaitlanfrominverell,

    kaitlanfrominverell kaitlanfrominverell Sep 18, 2015 5:39 PM in response to kaitlanfrominverell
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    Sep 18, 2015 5:39 PM in response to kaitlanfrominverell

    P.s. Not sure how this will play out on iphone but my example was on ipad mini 2.

  • by weitrhino1,

    weitrhino1 weitrhino1 Sep 22, 2015 4:00 PM in response to kaitlanfrominverell
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    Sep 22, 2015 4:00 PM in response to kaitlanfrominverell

    I also had to load a single music file onto my iPhone5 in order to link to my iTunes library on my iMac. With no music on the iPhone there is no option to get to the library which is kind of a pain in the ***, Apple. Getting my shared library to show up on the phone took several minutes but that's probably because my library is about 18,000 songs. No resetting of my Time Capsule router was necessary.

  • by Bidge,

    Bidge Bidge Sep 24, 2015 10:29 AM in response to weitrhino1
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    Sep 24, 2015 10:29 AM in response to weitrhino1

    Yup, I had to the same. Thanks to the advice found here otherwise I would still be going crazy over trying to get my Home Sharing network working again. I keep zero music files on the iPad and all music it played was streamed from my Mac, so to get the option I needed a song installed on it. Connected it via wire and transferred a single song and got it working.

     

    Apple I bought into your system because it used it to be easy, it used to be intuitive, it used to to just work.

     

    Can you please get your act together as you are becoming more and more like MS.

  • by Gigi1701,

    Gigi1701 Gigi1701 Oct 12, 2015 1:56 PM in response to Bidge
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    Oct 12, 2015 1:56 PM in response to Bidge

    Same here, I couldn't get Home Sharing to show up no matter what steps I took. I restarted the Airport Extreme and then I got the Home Sharing link!  Thanks for sharing the advice.

  • by p8ntldy,

    p8ntldy p8ntldy Oct 17, 2015 8:24 AM in response to Gigi1701
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    Oct 17, 2015 8:24 AM in response to Gigi1701

    rrestarting the router did the trick for me also!  Thanks for the info...