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2011 MacBook Pros Experiencing Issues With Home Sharing in iTunes
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Cause 2010 MBPs are better
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Maybe, but I've had problems a few times getting iPhone and a MPB-13 (mid 2010) to continue a glitch-free HomeShare streaming effort. It works for awhile and then at some point it goes quiet and when I look at the device it has bailed back out of iPod to the home screen. I mean bailed, not just paused. I sync'd my iPhone tonight just so it would ship the dumps to Apple!
Really I just think it's a timing issue, and that the iPhone gets impatient too soon sometimes and bails instead of chilling for the next track to be told to do its thing and show up at the iPhone's door. I know some dumps from iPhone have log language that reads like "... did not resume in time."
Anyway sometimes it definitely works flawlessly. It seemed to do best when I had picked an artist's particular album, i.e. one artist, one album, so therefore not very many tracks. When I went for one of my 30-track playlists it seemed to crap out after three or four tracks where each was by different artist in different album. I laugh when I imagine Mr. MacbookPro rummaging about frantically for some track's address, the way I look for my car keys when I'm already late for an appointment...
Well, it will get sorted out eventually or someone will realize what steps make a good workaround meanwhile. I was insanely happy with Home Share to begin with, and love to use it to transfer selections on my main libraries to an ever-changing library on my Macbook Air, or sometimes to move something bought onto MBA over to the other laptop so it will get backed up. But streaming play selections, and to the mobile devices, wow. While I was preparing supper tonight, I was listening to a Cut Copy album streamed from my studio to the iPhone stuck into a speakerdock in the kitchen. It was playing as if the tracks actually resided on the iPhone. I was blown away by realizing how this feature instantly widens my iPhone's horizons! Dear Apple: kudos, kisses!
Wow! You're right.
I tried your suggestion and it solved the defect in my 2011 MBP.
Thank you for saving me from another vomit inducing visit with a "genius".
Those guys are egotistical clones of the boss himself.
Well, let's see....
I have over 1.2GB of music on my Mac Pro. When I exercise upstairs, I Home Share my library to my iPhone, plug in ear buds and exercise for an hour...all with my entire music collection that doesn't fit on my iPhone.
Solution to problem - at least for me
What Air Play does for me is to allow music and movies to be streamed to my iPad from my laptop and desktop machines rather than just to AppleTV.
I also had recently upgraded both my AppleTV and iTunes to 10.2.1
When I started AppleTV it saw nothing, no movies, no music, nothing from my computers. I quit iTunes and then restarted it. Still nothing. Then I turned off Home sharing and turned it on again. Everything reappeared!
Try it - it worked for me.
What Air Play does for me is to allow music and movies to be streamed to my iPad from my laptop and desktop machines rather than just to AppleTV.
I also had recently upgraded both my AppleTV and iTunes to 10.2.1
When I started AppleTV it saw nothing, no movies, no music, nothing from my computers. I quit iTunes and then restarted it. Still nothing. Then I turned off Home sharing and turned it on again. Everything reappeared!
Try it - it worked for me.
Same problem here, but the problem is not solved permanently. It will frequently reoccur - to the point that each time I press MENU on my Apple remote after watching a program, I don't know whether I will see my iTunes library, or the error message.
I love having my MBP '09 work fine! =)
EDIT: sorry guys.. it said my first post didn't go through. Didn't mean to double post!
EDIT: sorry guys.. it said my first post didn't go through. Didn't mean to double post!
2011 MacBook Pros Experiencing Issues With Home Sharing in iTunes
Try to:
01. Forget all networks;
02. Reset Network Settings;
03. Rename your network to a name that does not have 0 (zero) or 1 (one) numbers in it. Same with passwords;
04. Update iTunes, delete all back-ups for other Apple devises.
05. Disable auto sync.
06. Follow your screen.
Took me three f@cking nights to resolve.
PS: #01 no needed, #02. will take care of it.
PPS: DONE NOT use custom DNS, search domain. Jut leave it alone
Try to:
01. Forget all networks;
02. Reset Network Settings;
03. Rename your network to a name that does not have 0 (zero) or 1 (one) numbers in it. Same with passwords;
04. Update iTunes, delete all back-ups for other Apple devises.
05. Disable auto sync.
06. Follow your screen.
Took me three f@cking nights to resolve.
PS: #01 no needed, #02. will take care of it.
PPS: DONE NOT use custom DNS, search domain. Jut leave it alone
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From Sadat on the Apple discussion forum about this issue:
A number of folks are reporting that this fix works for them. Not sure how but it's worth a try until Apple releases an update.
Here's another temporary fix I've found that works:
1. Connect iPhone to your Macbook Pro
2. Start iTunes or Restart iTunes if it's already running
After that Home Sharing and Streaming works fine as long as I don't quit iTunes again. You can unplug your iPhone and it'll still work as long as you keep iTunes open.
1. Connect iPhone to your Macbook Pro
2. Start iTunes or Restart iTunes if it's already running
After that Home Sharing and Streaming works fine as long as I don't quit iTunes again. You can unplug your iPhone and it'll still work as long as you keep iTunes open.
A number of folks are reporting that this fix works for them. Not sure how but it's worth a try until Apple releases an update.
is there any application out there that will let you play music from your house while you are at work if both places have a WiFi connection. I orginally thought this idea on sharing would include ability for iphone to streaming music from my home computer when on the go. I would figure that is where things will go in the future, then wouldn't need such a large size SSD in iphone.
No, serious, it IS lame ...
I didn't take that as an immature insult, but just a valid comment.
I've never enabled the "Home Sharing" feature on any of my Macs at home, nor have I ever used its equivalent in Windows 7 for Windows LANs I've set up for people.
My issue with it is, it's extra nonsense bolted onto an existing capability to share over a network. It seems to be popular, lately, as some kind of "work-around" for actually learning how to properly share out the correct folders and files on a given computer, and understand how the permissions work on what's being shared.
It appears that Apple tried to give it an excuse for its existence by designing things so it's required for streaming iTunes content to other iOS devices (like AppleTV). But I maintain that it's a "clunky" way to go about things, to have an OS with built in capabilities to share anything you like, and THEN a whole separate "home sharing" function with its own kind of password protection, that has some crossover with the normal sharing functionality, AND some extra stuff thrown in.
I didn't take that as an immature insult, but just a valid comment.
I've never enabled the "Home Sharing" feature on any of my Macs at home, nor have I ever used its equivalent in Windows 7 for Windows LANs I've set up for people.
My issue with it is, it's extra nonsense bolted onto an existing capability to share over a network. It seems to be popular, lately, as some kind of "work-around" for actually learning how to properly share out the correct folders and files on a given computer, and understand how the permissions work on what's being shared.
It appears that Apple tried to give it an excuse for its existence by designing things so it's required for streaming iTunes content to other iOS devices (like AppleTV). But I maintain that it's a "clunky" way to go about things, to have an OS with built in capabilities to share anything you like, and THEN a whole separate "home sharing" function with its own kind of password protection, that has some crossover with the normal sharing functionality, AND some extra stuff thrown in.
Tried that. Did not work for my MBP2011. My MBP2009 works perfectly at the same time that the '11 is barfing.
I have no problem with home sharing, and I have a search domain set on my home network. But the domain name I have set on my LAN is *not* ".local", which a lot of people seem to do.
You should NEVER use ".local" for your network DNS: the ".local" domain suffix is used by Bonjour and serving it via DNS can and probably will lead to weird failures of Bonjour-dependent services.
The video side of AirPlay is really just streaming MP4 (H.264, AAC) video to the target; it only makes sense for stored video, playing movies that are already in that format.
Key to making it work is that the video is already stored, and can be buffered on the remote end. When you hit pause on the AirPlay source (eg your iPhone), you're not pausing a live stream from the source to the AppleTV; what you're doing is just sending a message *to* the AppleTV telling it to pause. That's why the controls can react without much lag.
Do not expect non-movie 3rd party apps to work over this anytime soon: that would require the app to do its own live H.264 compression of its graphics, which (in addition to draining the battery) requires several layers of buffering that would make most games completely unplayable. Even in the most optimistic scenario, anything you did on the iPhone would take *at least* a second or two before being shown on the remote screen.
Such things could conceivably work in the more distant future through a less compressed, very high bandwidth WiFi link for the graphics, or if the game itself was able to run on the AppleTV and with your iPhone app running *just* as a remote controller, but AirPlay as it stands is not remotely close to either of those ideas.
It's not really a standard. It's actually pretty proprietary, but it's built on top of standards, which makes it feasible to reverse engineer. Really, though, the *only* supported receiver for AirPlay video is an AppleTV. 3rd party receivers only accept audio from AirPlay, and to do that, they have to buy and incorporate a specific chip licensed from Apple.
There are third party apps for iOS and OS X that let you turn those devices into receivers for AirPlay video, but these rely on having reverse-engineered the novel aspects of how AirPlay works to advertise, establish, and control the video stream. They also don't work for doing audio-only AirPlay: that part involves an authentication mechanism that hasn't been cracked yet.
kinda interested to see where this goes since i just got my 2011 mbp yesterday, it's not a feature i planned on using often but it's still something I used a bit on my 2010 before i returned it for this one 
I had returned mine because of this problem and also because it was very hot in my lap. I'm very happy with my new air and also waiting for the new imacs for the heavy lifting.
WiFi2HiFi app
A nice alternative to Home Sharing is the WiFi2HiFi app:
http://itunes.apple.com/ch/app/wifi2hifi/id417409424?mt=8
It streams audio from Mac/PC to the iPhone - no problems with MacBook Pro
A nice alternative to Home Sharing is the WiFi2HiFi app:
http://itunes.apple.com/ch/app/wifi2hifi/id417409424?mt=8
It streams audio from Mac/PC to the iPhone - no problems with MacBook Pro
I believe that 10.6.7 took care of this problem. Since the upgrade haven't experienced the problem since.