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Apple Working to Add Home Sharing for Music in iOS 9

zorinlynx said:
I wonder if this is because Home Sharing had a hole in its DRM that Apple couldn't leave open with Apple Music.

Before it was fine; music from the iTunes Store has no DRM so it's okay if FairPlay wasn't entirely secure for music. But now with Apple Music, a hole in FairPlay is serious because people can use it to remove DRM from the "rented" music and keep it forever.

The whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth, really; we were finally moving away from DRM on music entirely and now here it is, coming back with a vengeance.
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Yup, and it no type of toothpaste will fix it. It was bound to happen. Although Tim has been very absent during this Apple Music rollout? On vacation? Na, probably at Steve's grave asking for forgiveness on the Apple Watch. :apple:
 
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manu chao said:
Since Apple Music includes iTunes Match and is free (de facto until the release of iOS 9), you can stream everything in your library via Apple Music. At home, you'd very likely also have unmetered Internet. Only those with library with more than 25000 songs are cut off at the moment.
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Unlimited Home Internet will be changing precisely for reasons mentioned above. I give it 1-2 years. Say, $49.00 a month for 100g? ;)
 
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ShadovvMoon said:
In other news, Apple removes a feature only to reintroduce it later as innovation.
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Please tell me where they either stated or implied that reintroducing Home Sharing is innovative. I'll be waiting.

Dorje Sylas said:
And what about those devices that WILL NOT be able to run iOS9 but are left BROKEN by iOS8?

Typical modern day Apple, "if you want, that thing you USED to have go buy new hardware."
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Typical MacRumors commenter, jumping to conclusions while wearing a tin-foil hat instead of researching before they type.
 
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And all of those people screaming....

"OMG I HATE YOU APPLE, HOW CAN YOU TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME?!?"

...are nowhere to be seen
 
elmateo487 said:
And all of those people screaming....

"OMG I HATE YOU APPLE, HOW CAN YOU TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME?!?"

...are nowhere to be seen
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Um, if I'm not mistaken, Eddy was quoted as saying, "we are working on restoring Home Sharing in iOS 9." That leaves a fairly large amount of uncertainty as far as I'm concerned. How many would have upgraded to 8.4 knowing Home Share would be disabled? Please, save the Apple Speak. It's obviously a major issue now. They should have been upfront. :apple:
 
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Glideslope said:
Unlimited Home Internet will be changing precisely for reasons mentioned above. I give it 1-2 years. Say, $49.00 a month for 100g? ;)
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If my math is correct, streaming music at 256 kB/s for 8 hours a day and 30.5 days per months results in 28 GB.

(256 kb/s *1/8 kb/kB *1/1000 000 kB/GB * 3600 s/h * 8 h/d * 30.5 d/m = 28 GB/m)
 
Glideslope said:
Um, if I'm not mistaken, Eddy was quoted as saying, "we are working on restoring Home Sharing in iOS 9." That leaves a fairly large amount of uncertainty as far as I'm concerned. How many would have upgraded to 8.4 knowing Home Share would be disabled? Please, save the Apple Speak. It's obviously a major issue now. They should have been upfront. :apple:
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The problem he is addressing is not the fact that it was removed, it the the fact that nobody knew why but those haters played their usual apple hating/Steve Jobs praising crap. Apple in general doesn't remove popular things without reasons.
When you think about it. Home sharing presented a pretty huge hole in the way Apple music works with DRM. Anyone without a subscription could have been able to cheat the service and get access to full unlimited streaming of music. I thought about this greatly after that last article detailing its removal.
 
gijoeinla said:
"8.4, the feature is still available for video. Home Sharing for music also remains available on the Mac and the Apple TV."

Not true for me regarding Beats 1. The OTA Apple TV Icon weirdly disappears from iTunes once I click play on Beats 1. I can however still stream it from the Mac AirPlay button but it then takes over my desktop.

If it's me and someone knows what's up... Plz post
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AirPlay doesn't work with Beats 1 for me either.
 
manu chao said:
Since Apple Music includes iTunes Match and is free (de facto until the release of iOS 9), you can stream everything in your library via Apple Music. At home, you'd very likely also have unmetered Internet. Only those with library with more than 25000 songs are cut off at the moment.
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Or those that prefer their music uncompressed / lossless, *and* have more than 25k tracks :/
 
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justmewhoelse said:
Is it me, or has Apple lost it's direction/mojo? Way too much amateurish crap being released pretty buggy and/or lame? Apple seems to be reacting instead of acting/leading.
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Apple is acting like a child seeing what it can get away with. First it wanted to not pay royalties to artists during the Apple Music trial period, and now this. Presumably to either get more people to subscribe to Apple music to access songs or at the very least to subscribe to iTunes Match. Oh, lets also not forget 16gb iphones.... I'm really disenchanted with the direction they seem to be going.
 
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It's been great for Plex -- noticed a few months ago my Samsung TV had a built in app for it, then saw I had to install Plex Media Server on my PC/Mac and didn't bother. Was sure it would involve hours of setup. Couldn't have been more wrong, installed and immediately started streaming my iTunes audio... as well as non-iTunes audio and video. Amazing product that even once Home Sharing is back, I'll stick with Plex. Its free, though there is a paid tier with some enhancements I have no need for. The iOS app is $5 -- the Media Server is free.
 
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Glideslope said:
Um, if I'm not mistaken, Eddy was quoted as saying, "we are working on restoring Home Sharing in iOS 9." That leaves a fairly large amount of uncertainty as far as I'm concerned. How many would have upgraded to 8.4 knowing Home Share would be disabled? Please, save the Apple Speak. It's obviously a major issue now. They should have been upfront. :apple:
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And I'm sure every one of them read the release notes stating what was changed in 8.4 ;)
 
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