Airplay stops

OK. As you wish... always the easy answer "the problem is your wifi"... all you "experts" make me laugh when it comes to blame the wifi for any abnormal behavior of apple software. Instead of really checking what the problem could be, you always say "it's the network..."... Denial!!!!!

Perhaps you can tell us why, if it's the wi-fi, I can stream Hi Def video on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, every time flawlessly, yet I cannot get my (current software) iMac & 4th Gen ATV to play local mp3's for 10 minutes without breaking connection. My TV is one floor down and 10 feet over. My JBL bluetooth speakers play farther than that range, also flawlessly.

I would love to hear a reason that makes sense. I've tried debugging this issue for literally 15 years, give up, come back to it, upgrade devices, come back to it, etc. etc. Same pathetic dysfunction endlessly. I'm just inches away from the hassle of running ethernet through the walls of my house. Apple's cutting edge solution from the late 80's.

Even when play stream works, it's pathetically dysfunctional in other ways. Always erratic at getting simple album art to the ATV, also to my phones Remote app. Often it freezes on art and / or (this is how random it is) freezes on song info as new songs advance. Then like a cosmic joke, it sometimes does advance with each song - wait for it - to the artwork and title info of the *previous* song, like waiting for a radio DJ to tell you what played. Awesome!

Both devices can sometimes control track advance & scroll & give other info, sometimes not; it may play but no control over anything. (Of course if i want it to stop I can wait 5 minutes.) Please explain how Wi-Fi could be doing that while playing app video so well, other than ATV airplay just being a bug-riddled hot mess, as thousands have experiened. I'm trying not to be snarky but I'm deeply burnt out on hearing the same confident advice from apologists that I've wasted collective days if not weeks of my life trying to fix.

No not really, however if you were to try your equipment on someone elses network in another location you will likely find it works just fine, which is why I believe it's YOUR network that has the problem. Yes others experience issues from time to time, although it's not as common as your ridiculous suggestion, some discover it was their networks all along, others like you refuse to accept this and so far as I know likely never resolve the problem because they are looking in the wrong place. Before I go let me remind you there are more parts to YOUR network than just the wifi.

What exactly did I suggest? Let me restate my main query: if my WiFi is the problem, why does it send HiDef video that needs thousands of times more bandwith, through every app on ATV perfectly, but can't Airplay local mp3's from iTunes when, iMac and ATV are on the same Wifi signal as the cable modum? (The cable modum IS the Wi-Fi, but I've tried with a separate Netgear Wi-Fi as well.) Again, I'd love to hear a reasonable answer.

I'll put it even more simply. How could a bugged-up network send Hi-Def video perfectly? What exactly would the difference be between cable modum source and iMac iTunes source. (Besides iTunes being broken. I take it back about it definitely being ATV. iTunes, though it's getting better, has been in feature bloat funkytown since I can remember.) If you answer that I'll issue a full apology.

One more question. Let's say there is an innate difference between how iTunes works on Wi-Fi that would be no problem if set up in another location. When all my other devices work fine with the Wi-Fi RIGHT HERE, how does that not lead to the conclusion iTunes is not up to snuff? Is making products comparably impervious to others in preventing interference not a responsibility of a design staff? But no, the onus is on us to work out all the problems they should have. Same way Apple puts out buggy / under-tested updates and uses first adopters as de facto beta testers. (Including an iOS update that fried my iPhone 4S's Wi-Fi antennae. Google that one and get back to me on how that's also my responsibility to work out. I found Apple's favorite solution: buy a new iPhone. If I wasn't dug in with Apple equiptment it would have been a Samsung.)

My humble advice: don't waste your time on deniers. iTunes and Airplay have always been full of bugs, inconsistencies and unexpected behaviors. But, as usual, with iTunes Apple prefers to use a nice make-up instead of radical surgery. The product has always been disastrous and the only change along all these years is the way it looks like but not the way it works. Lots of persons have the same issues you and I have explained but, still, for some persons is "a problem with your network"... It's a copy of the typical answer you get when calling for support to your cable or Internet company...

Airplay issues started with me when I added some homekit devices. iPhone X keeps cutting airplay from safari or just doesnt start from other apps. Good old iPad air works. Next iOS is going to focus on all kinds of bugs to be fixed I heard. Hope thats the case, because iP4 was the best Apple product and reason for me to go all in with Apple. Since that, every software seem to have problems. It just works should be the frase again asap...

Typical answer... “let’s blame the WiFi”...

avlasich wrote:

Typical answer... “let’s blame the WiFi”...

And why do you suppose that is? 😁

Bugs? Or you are going to tell us that apple software is "free of bugs" too? Read the other posts and you will notice that the problems reported are not related to wifi issues...

Really???? Still blaming the network? As we say in my country, the worst blind is who doesn’t want to see...

Why does Apple TV stop mirroring after a couple of minutes on my iphone