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Anybody think home Sharing will be fixed with 6.1

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guitarmandp

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It's amazing to me how buggy home sharing is on iOS 6. I refuse to update my iPad to iOS 6 until home Sharing is fixed.

Does anybody know if this feature is fixed o the beta of iOS 6.1?
 
Can u elaborate "buggy" ? Mine works seamlessly , though , this feature is highly dependent on your wireless router and its capabilities
 
guitarmandp said:
It's amazing to me how buggy home sharing is on iOS 6. I refuse to update my iPad to iOS 6 until home Sharing is fixed.

Does anybody know if this feature is fixed o the beta of iOS 6.1?
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You refuse to update to iOS6, you say….. um, so how do you know it is buggy?

Works seamlessly for me too…
 
I believe the OP is referring to the fact that home sharing for music is a disaster. I've had the same issue with iOS 6 on all my devices. Never had any issues before the upgrade. Basically the problem involves the music app almost never displaying the full list of artists or albums until going into settings, logging out and then back in to home sharing which is complete nonsense. Also album art is not displayed properly. And forget about streaming a 1080p movie.
 
I've got 6.1 Beta 4 on my iPad 3, and it shares music and audio from the Audible app just fine with my Apple TV. 6.0.2 on my iPhone 5 works fine as well. 1080P problems I cannot speak to since I use Apple ID direct from Apple TV and do not send video from iPad, iPhone, or MacBook. It was also working across all devices on 6.0.1 and 6.0, so honestly I've not seen any issues, other than sometimes my fat fingers could not select the itty-bitty icon in the Audible app.
 
gglittle said:
I've got 6.1 Beta 4 on my iPad 3, and it shares music and audio from the Audible app just fine with my Apple TV. 6.0.2 on my iPhone 5 works fine as well. 1080P problems I cannot speak to since I use Apple ID direct from Apple TV and do not send video from iPad, iPhone, or MacBook. It was also working across all devices on 6.0.1 and 6.0, so honestly I've not seen any issues, other than sometimes my fat fingers could not select the itty-bitty icon in the Audible app.
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You are getting home sharing confused with AirPlay. Home sharing is only available on iPhones and iPads using apples own music and video apps.
 
CB1234 said:
You refuse to update to iOS6, you say….. um, so how do you know it is buggy?

Works seamlessly for me too…
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My iPad mini and 2 of my iPod touches are running iOS 6. Home sharing takes about twice as long to load as it did on iOS 5.1 and it also will not show artists, albums, or composers only songs, playlists, and genres.

This is an obvious bug and I refuse to update my iPad 3rd generation to iOS 6 until this is fixed.
 
Not only music but TV shows are more or less completely useless in iOS 6, I've resorted to enabling my iTunes library as a web share and using safari to play...
 
To this day I don't understand how this bug could go unnoticed. I use home sharing the most on my iPad. I see no reason to upgrade until this is fixed
 
old-wiz said:
No problem with music or TV shows purchased or movies via home sharing on IOS 6, iPad 3, Apple TV.
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Post a screen shot of your artists on your iPad 3.

Home Sharing works on AppleTV it doesn't work on my iPod touches or iPad mini and many other people have this exact problem.

I can access playlists, songs, and genres with home sharing I can't access artists, albums, or genres. When I go to artists it displays like 15 artists in my library out of hundreds
 
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This,,and it's annoying cause I'm neurotic about my itunes library and love to have everything perfect lol
 
guitarmandp said:
I wonder if this intentional so people end up paying for iTunes Match
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Seems to work fine on my household's 5 iPhones but iPad's are useless but AppleTV's work fine, as do via the Remote App so it's something to do with the iPad version of the Music / Video's app .... not got a mini or a iPod Touch so can't vouch for those.

I'm not talking about a few tv shows, i'm talking about 571gb worth of TV episodes, one minute you will see everything in order... next minute they are all jumbled up with the odd Music Album or Movie cover thrown in, with no text under it and un'tap-able' word? :)

Completely and utterly buggy!
 
garybUK said:
Seems to work fine on my household's 5 iPhones but iPad's are useless but AppleTV's work fine, as do via the Remote App so it's something to do with the iPad version of the Music / Video's app .... not got a mini or a iPod Touch so can't vouch for those.

I'm not talking about a few tv shows, i'm talking about 571gb worth of TV episodes, one minute you will see everything in order... next minute they are all jumbled up with the odd Music Album or Movie cover thrown in, with no text under it and un'tap-able' word? :)

Completely and utterly buggy!
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The setup I have is that I have a Bose Soundlink 10 in my bedroom and I use home sharing on my iPad to pull up all of the music on my computer and play it through my Soundlink 10. This setup works fine with my iPad on iOS 5.1.1 but does not work very well on my iPad mini on iOS 6 because I can't browse by artist, or album. It's not as big of a deal on my iPod touch which I have in another room because with that I basically just shuffle songs but on my iPad I like to be able to listen to albums and I can't do that with artist, and albums being blocked.

The remote app works fine on iOS 6, but the remote app is only useful if you have AppleTV or Airplay. I do not have Airplay and AppleTV is in my living room.
 
I have an ipad 3 and my Home Sharing wont even load music or movies after updating to IOS6. I even took a chance in buying a new router, thinking maybe I needed to upgrade it. That didn't work either. Sad thing is, Apple tech. support initially took my call, but the main person I tried to talk to about the issue basically ignores my calls and every other tech support person I talk to acts like the problem doesn't exist. They all say that no one else is calling in with this issue. Has anyone in this thread called apple support??? I wish I could take my iPad back now... Home sharing is a big part of why I got it...
 
saxman211 said:
I have an ipad 3 and my Home Sharing wont even load music or movies after updating to IOS6. I even took a chance in buying a new router, thinking maybe I needed to upgrade it. That didn't work either. Sad thing is, Apple tech. support initially took my call, but the main person I tried to talk to about the issue basically ignores my calls and every other tech support person I talk to acts like the problem doesn't exist. They all say that no one else is calling in with this issue. Has anyone in this thread called apple support??? I wish I could take my iPad back now... Home sharing is a big part of why I got it...
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Try going into settings and take out your account email and password and then put it back in after exiting out of the settings app. (On the iPad)
 
guitarmandp said:
It's amazing to me how buggy home sharing is on iOS 6. I refuse to update my iPad to iOS 6 until home Sharing is fixed.

Does anybody know if this feature is fixed o the beta of iOS 6.1?
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I have an ipad2 with 6.0.1, Home Sharing works perfectly. Same goes for an iphone5 with 6.0.2. Maybe you should try a restore...

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guitarmandp said:
It's amazing to me how buggy home sharing is on iOS 6. I refuse to update my iPad to iOS 6 until home Sharing is fixed.

Does anybody know if this feature is fixed o the beta of iOS 6.1?
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saxman211 said:
I have an ipad 3 and my Home Sharing wont even load music or movies after updating to IOS6. I even took a chance in buying a new router, thinking maybe I needed to upgrade it. That didn't work either. Sad thing is, Apple tech. support initially took my call, but the main person I tried to talk to about the issue basically ignores my calls and every other tech support person I talk to acts like the problem doesn't exist. They all say that no one else is calling in with this issue. Has anyone in this thread called apple support??? I wish I could take my iPad back now... Home sharing is a big part of why I got it...
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I have an ipad2 with 6.0.1, Home Sharing works perfectly. Same goes for an iphone5 with 6.0.2. Maybe you should try a restore...
 
Post a screen shot of your artists

And no point in doing a restore. If it doesn't work on several different devices than its an obvious bug
 
guitarmandp said:
Post a screen shot of your artists

And no point in doing a restore. If it doesn't work on several different devices than its an obvious bug
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Well, I also have several devices and it works fine on all of them. Restore should sort it but if you're not willing to try that, good luck!
 
declandio said:
Well, I also have several devices and it works fine on all of them. Restore should sort it but if you're not willing to try that, good luck!
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So let me get this straight. It's a coincidence that 2 iPod touches and my iPad mini are suffering from this same problem? Even though a google search for my problem brings up many people who have this issue.
 
guitarmandp said:
So let me get this straight. It's a coincidence that 2 iPod touches and my iPad mini are suffering from this same problem? Even though a google search for my problem brings up many people who have this issue.
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Well then, maybe the problem is something to do with your configuration, network or all kinds of other possibilities. A restore on one of them will help you determine that. No one seems to be able to help you so your options seem to be limited that. Since you refuse to try that then its seems that you're stuck.

Is it a coincidence that mine all work fine as do plenty of other peoples'?!
 
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