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Apple Working to Add Home Sharing for Music in iOS 9

Relieved to hear it. In the meantime I will not be updating to 8.4. Glad I waited and found out about this first. I think from now on I'll always wait a few days before updating to a new iOS to see if there are any of these kinds of unfortunate surprises.
 
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subjonas said:
Relieved to hear it. In the meantime I will not be updating to 8.4. Glad I waited and found out about this first. I think from now on I'll always wait a few days before updating to a new iOS to see if there are any of these kinds of unfortunate surprises.
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Very wise.

I now wait at least a week after every update. So glad I did. Will not be updating iTunes either. When 10.11 arrives, maybe things will have improved.
 
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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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Or it was a bug? And if bugs are unacceptable to you then you better get your tape player back out.
 
No need to wait for iOS 9 to make users whole, just make subscription services free till free Home Sharing option is restored.
 
I can see it now. they'll do exactly what they did with Facetime.

"oh, sorry we broke your ability to use this feature that has been in our software for the longest time. But, we will bring it back in the next version!"

next version is released, cuts out support for hardware 2 revisions old

"if you want the feature back, you have to buy a new device!"

Though, if they make iOS9 backwards compatible with All hardware that 8.4 runs on, then my salt is moot. But, Apple has done this in the past.
 
can you home share from your phone to other devices?

I only have music on my old iPhone 5S that i use when I'm overseas. i haven't set up on the iPhone 6 yet.
 
elmateo487 said:
Nice try buddy. But complaining.... about EVERYTHING. Even when they said, hey whoops, we are trying to fix it, is just a painful way to live. So don't project it on everyone else around you.
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Rejecting reality and substituting your own (ie: it's a bug) is a better way to live?
 
vladzaharia said:
It's impossible to do streaming without DRM, by sheer fact that you have a time-limited subscription that could technically end at any time. You need some way to cut off access to the music when this finishes, hence you need some sort of DRM. Without it, nobody would subscribe past the trial. They'd get a trial, download all the songs they want, and then cancel and keep the songs. With purchases, going DRM-less makes the most sense, since it's a one time transaction.
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Or once the free trial had ended, paying the £/$9.99 for one month, download basically as many albums, songs that they wanted and then cancel their subscription. And then a couple of months down the line, doing the same again. Record labels would have been up in arms over it as people would be getting potentially hundreds or even thousands of albums, songs for next to nothing. I can see the need for some sort of DRM.
 
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