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iOS 8.4 Removes Home Sharing for Music
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I only used my iPad original for listen music from Home Sharing in my kitchen. This iPad was perfect for that.
Now, unable to update the Music app.
How can I listen my music library from my Macbook to my iPad? I don't know.
Apple : arghhhhhh!!!!!
Now, unable to update the Music app.
How can I listen my music library from my Macbook to my iPad? I don't know.
Apple : arghhhhhh!!!!!
How coincidental. At the same time you dropped Apple for Google you signed up for a Macrumors account. You would think someone who made such switch would also move to an Android site.
You don't need it.
Streaming my music from my Synology Diskstation NAS since 2010. The money I save with this, I invest in my next NAS. No money for you Tim!
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So you spend $600 every 5 years for your own home sharing solution? As opposed to paying $600 for 5 years of Apple Music with the added benefit of cloud access and 30 million available tracks?
Match does not have anywhere near the amount of music I have so it does not work for me. Yes, Home Sharing is needed . Such a fanboi.
This is fine in principle, but if you need to remove a feature, give your users plenty of notice so they can plan around it. Don't just drop the feature without warning, especially without even bothering to put it in the release notes.
So you spend $600 every 5 years for your own home sharing solution? As opposed to paying $600 for 5 years of Apple Music with the added benefit of cloud access and 30 million available tracks?
I think you should look into the additional possibilities of a NAS, it's my personal cloud for almost everything
First reply that I read that makes any sense. People seem to overreact here. The article was clear that you cannot share from the phone. But my catalog is on my computer and I can share from there. I suspect that the number of folks sharing from their phones using Home Sharing was very limited and so Apple either prioritized that very low (why it did not make it in this build) or just decided it was not worth doing at all. You also make a valid point that there could also be licensing issues here that may be influencing this.
Well if you have an Apple music family license doesn't it do the same thing? Plus it's a great way for Apple to profit from some customers that otherwise might have not used their new service.
Who knows it might come back, but I could see Apple doing a few small things like this to help build their new music service.
This might be an issue of semantics, or I might be misinterpreting what you've written, but have you ever been able to share the music on your phone with other users on the same network? It sounds like you believe that what has been pulled is the ability for an iOS user to be able to share the music on their phone with others on the network...
Agreed. I don't think it's ever been possible to share music from an iPhone to other devices over the local network with home sharing.
I can't comment on the performance of 8.4 on A7 devices, but I will say this. 8.3 was kind of jittery on my iPhone 6... after playing with iOS 9 for a while, I decided to go back to 8.3 by doing a clean install as new, and I haven't experienced performance like this since the iPhone 5 on iOS 6. 8.4 runs just as well, too. I did this on Monday, and there are only 18 entries in my Diagnostics and Usage log- I was getting dozens of entries per day on 8.3 prior to updating my phone to iOS 9. I'm no expert, but I think the earlier versions of iOS 8 were so awful that their negative effects persist until you set up a device as new on at least 8.3 or 8.4. iOS 9 is much more promising than iOS 8 ever was, so I think Apple learned their lesson on releasing half-polished software.
Now, regarding the music app, I think it is a much better app in 8.4. That is of course because I'm actually using Apple Music. The ability to ask Siri to play any song in the Apple Music library while I'm driving is a game changer for me. I imagine that someone who doesn't plan on Apple Music (and especially someone who uses home sharing) would have mixed feelings about 8.4 at best, and I understand that. But my point is, it is a vastly more useful app for many people, so you really can't say that it is objectively a worse app than it used to be.
Apple doesn't make it any harder to switch to Android than Google makes it harder to switch to iOS. As long as you have your iTunes library, it's a trivial task to move whatever songs you want onto an Android device. If you use Apple Music, that's coming out for Android soon. If you use any other streaming service, you're good to go right now. No matter which platform you're on, you have to pay for apps all over again. Neither Apple or Google make it artificially more difficult to switch platforms, it's just the nature of the beast.
And if you keep buying Apple products despite your concerns, you're letting Apple know that you're accepting their dick moves. Apple devices do everything I want them to do, so don't rely on me to rally for your cause. I understand and sympathize with your concerns, but you need to be the one to vote with your wallet, just as I would vote with mine if Apple took away significant features that I depend on.
In some use cases, perhaps.
If you don't care about listening to your lossless and/or high-res music library without it being downgraded to AAC, possibly.
If you're happy to pay almost £1800 over the next ten years to listen to all the music you already own, on your iPhone/iPad in your own home, maybe.
Is that your guess (which is fine) or do you have a source for that claim?
Same question as above.
What I'm seeming at home, right now, is that it doesn't work.
Are you seeing something different on your system?
Because you can't connect to shared libraries from an iOS device with 8.4 on it. It looks like Apple is transitioning to the iCloud Music library, which is fine if you subscribe to Apple music. However, you don't get access to iCloud music library without subscribing (from what I can see), so there's no way of accessing your iTunes music that's not on your device unless you're an Apple Music subscriber
Are you suggesting that sharing from iTunes to an iOS 8.4 device still works?
Because it doesnt. That's the whole point of this thread.