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iOS 8.4 Removes Home Sharing for Music

bobruede said:
Thanks for the reply. I had installed the remote but can't seem to access anything but my playlists of my physical music. It will control basic Apple Music skip and volume function but I was hoping to use my watch to call up songs from the Apple Music catalogue and have them play on the Mac like on Spotify Connect. When I use Siri on the watch, they start to play on my phone. I can skip to the next (Apple Music) song and control volume from my phone (and watch) using the REMOTE app but can't browse or cue up a different artist or song from my phone. Am I missing an important step or just going to have to go into the house to the Mac to add specific songs from Apple Music? It's a big hardwired property. I could buy a bluetooth receiver but would have to unplug and plug in inputs to switch from phone signal to internal Mac Mini volume for using my computer to watch video, gaming, etc. I just want it all. That's all. Thanks again for your advise and your patience reading my ramblings. :)
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bobruede said:
Thanks for the reply. I had installed the remote but can't seem to access anything but my playlists of my physical music. It will control basic Apple Music skip and volume function but I was hoping to use my watch to call up songs from the Apple Music catalogue and have them play on the Mac like on Spotify Connect. When I use Siri on the watch, they start to play on my phone. I can skip to the next (Apple Music) song and control volume from my phone (and watch) using the REMOTE app but can't browse or cue up a different artist or song from my phone. Am I missing an important step or just going to have to go into the house to the Mac to add specific songs from Apple Music? It's a big hardwired property. I could buy a bluetooth receiver but would have to unplug and plug in inputs to switch from phone signal to internal Mac Mini volume for using my computer to watch video, gaming, etc. I just want it all. That's all. Thanks again for your advise and your patience reading my ramblings. :)
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In the remote app, go to settings in the upper right corner, click on Add an iTunes Library, follow the steps on this page. You have to add the 4 digit code into iTunes on your mac where the library is. It takes a little bit to verify. Once it verifies, go back to the main screen and click on your iTunes Library. You should now see all of your artists, albums, videos, etc.
 
I just use the Remote app to play music from my desktop PC. It seems to work. I guess I always used it this way so I didn't really notice. Cue said sharing will be back in ios 9.
 
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No need to wait for iOS 9 to make users whole, just make subscription services free till free Home Sharing option is restored.
 
More impact: Me and my wife are early adopters of Apple Watch. This 8.4 fiasco backs us into a corner to choose between (a) iOS updates to improve Watch function, or (b) losing Home Share. This is a lose-lose position for customer.

Now, I also see a 10.10.4 Mac OS X update in my AppStore. I used to just hit "update", but now wonder if I might be screwed.

Trust: years to build, minutes to lose. The cost to Apple of such a seemingly little thing can be incredibly higher than obvious.
 
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seamer said:
Yes, giving your money to another company for a previously free feature will surely teach Apple a lesson.
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While I quite agree with you that the executives at Apple are unlikely to lose any sleep over people looking to third-party apps, I do feel that I need to correct you on one matter, for PLEX (other than accessing their premium services) is free to download, install and use and would appear to offer all that 'homesharing' did (certainly in terms of iOS devices) and possibly a great deal more besides.

In the event, it may transpire that this is all a storm in a teacup, as the latest rumours on various Apple forum sites would seem to suggest that 'homesharing' for iOS devices is due to make a comeback in iOS 9 - I do hope so.
 
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QuiteSure said:
Theoretically, customers shouldn't need home sharing during the Apple Music trial period, because all of the music (more or less) should be available on every device, at no cost. Let's see what happens after September 30.
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This is the problem, apple disabled home sharing to force people to pay to get back a function that they have been using for free for years.. its a horrible, deceptive, evil business practice that just shows how Apple have become everything people used to call microsoft in the 90s.

When i started using iTunes as my media hub it was because the two options available were iTunes or windows media server, and iTunes was the better made , easier to use, robust product, now, Plex, a free product, is infinity better, with a nicer interface, and is platform agnostic.

iTunes is going to get worse and worse and they break more off it off and try and turn it from a media player, into a subscription content gateway.
 
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While I quite agree with you that the executives at Apple are unlikely to lose any sleep over people looking to third-party apps, I do feel that I need to correct you on one matter, for PLEX (other than accessing their premium services) is free to download, install and use and would appear to offer all that 'homesharing' did (certainly in terms of iOS devices) and possibly a great deal more besides.

In the event, it may transpire that this is all a storm in a teacup, as the latest rumours on various Apple forum sites would seem to suggest that 'homesharing' for iOS devices is due to make a comeback in iOS 9 - I do hope so.
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To be fair, the one time I tried plex on a dedicated server it tried to make me pay for "premium features" that I felt should be standard. I uninstalled it after that so I don't have a reference of what I thought truly sucked for you.
 
Plex does not see all my files, Most of my files are MP4s, some it sees and some it doesn't. Plus it takes forever to scan my folders. Also last time i checked there is no shuffle option for photos or videos. Kodi is a million times better but is hardly available anywhere
 
i'm really concerned about where Apple is going. I think we all new things were going to go south post Steve Jobs, but its going to be sad actually watching it, experiencing it as the products you had faith in begin to let us down. I still have my old "Bubble Imac" in a box under the stairs.

To be honest i only used Home Sharing for a few weeks a couple of years ago, but just this week have got a new speaker system and was going use it to stream my Itunes library. FAIL

Why isn't it there, i just spent an hour trying to get it to work, thats an hour i will never get back, Its just not good enough to say, Oh it will be back next update, NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

As for the new Itunes, i used to like the simplicity and reliability of Mac, now I need to be retrained everytime i log on. I refuse to spend hours retraining myself just so Apple can **** around with their products.

Reliable, innovative and cool .....not anymore
 
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With iOS9 now available today, can someone confirm if Home Sharing is officially back please? And, if there are any changes?
 
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