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Sep 26, 2016 5:40 AM in response to rjvan11by Winston Churchill,If you have an Apple TV 4 you might try third party apps (on the Apple TV not on your phone) some apps such as 'Plex' do what you want (You don't need your phone)
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Sep 26, 2016 6:02 AM in response to rjvan11by Diana.McCall,VLC is another universal player app for ATV 4.
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Sep 26, 2016 6:09 AM in response to Winston Churchillby rjvan11,home sharing won't work? I have older versions of the AppleTV
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Sep 26, 2016 6:13 AM in response to rjvan11by Winston Churchill,No, homesharing won't work. Home sharing uses iTunes, you can't run iTunes on an network drive.
You'll have to use iTunes on your computer or purchase the newer Apple TV.
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Sep 26, 2016 8:12 AM in response to Diana.McCallby Airsculpture,Why not just plug the ext drive into your mac/pc ?
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by Winston Churchill,Sep 26, 2016 8:13 AM in response to Airsculpture
Winston Churchill
Sep 26, 2016 8:13 AM
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Apple TVThat on it's own won't help, the content needs to be in iTunes.
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Sep 26, 2016 8:23 AM in response to Winston Churchillby Airsculpture,Sorry what I meant was.....
In my instance, I have a 5TB drive attached to my iMac to home share. iTunes is open on the iMac with all content on the external drive.
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by Winston Churchill,Sep 26, 2016 8:32 AM in response to Airsculpture
Winston Churchill
Sep 26, 2016 8:32 AM
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Apple TVYes that's how mine works too.
The OP would need to import the content into iTunes though, it wouldn't just work by plugging it in as an external drive. I appreciate you might realise that, it's not certain the OP would.
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