No Home Sharing? What?! Someone call Taylor Swift NOW! 
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iOS 8.4 Removes Home Sharing for Music
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Yes but with iTunes Match you could download your matched songs with upgraded quality DRM free. With AM you can't
So what happens to your music you purchased after you cancel Apple Music does Taylor Swift pay for them?
Still works on my PC & MacBook with iTunes 12.2. They probably don't want unlicensed-audience broadcast by hooking an iPhone/iPod Touch up on a WiFi network that isn't yours and sharing your stuff to a group. The RIAA doesn't like that -- wouldn't be surprised if they were somehow involved. Laptops being exempt, Windows-10 7" tablets will likely see an uptick in sales amongst devoted iTunes users ;-)
That sucks... I have quite a large iTunes library of my own ripped music and the kids and I like to stream it to our local devices using Home Sharing (Apple allows up to 10 Home Sharing devices - maximum 5 PC/Mac). Why would I want to pay Apple to stream music that I already have on my NAS!?
I think that I will await upgrading until this has been resolved
Everyone spam Taylor Swifts Twitter about this.
I used to enjoy and support the walled garden that is the Apple eco-system. But now the walls keep closing in and I find I have less and less room to freely decide how to use my already paid for library anyway I see fit. That on top of all the restricting moves Apple has made in the past 2 years... I think at least my iOS devices are going up for sale online. I hang on to OS X until El Capitan comes out.
No Home Sharing? What?! Someone call Taylor Swift NOW!
ALL of our Music and Video is shared in our house, I have a Mac mini running as a server and anyone in our house can access it. Looks like I may have to start looking at Plex and other offerings , especially as I want to add more home automation features into our next house and if Apple is going to tighten up then I will go elsewhere.
That Mac mini will run Linux just fine.
You can -- it just has to be one of your authorized devices. You just can't share media from your iPhone with other devices on your home network -- doesn't stop you from accessing your iTunes Match stuff.
Slow down everybody...
Home sharing is still in iTunes just as it was. Home sharing was removed only from iOS, which frankly I wasn't even aware was an option.
Home sharing is still in iTunes just as it was. Home sharing was removed only from iOS, which frankly I wasn't even aware was an option.
(okay. . .ok. . . calm yourself down TMRJIJ) They're probably trying to figure something out with the weird Apple Music Library and iTunes Library merge.
It's audience broadcasting -- playing music for groups of people. There's a licensing fee involved, companies like Muzak (now Mood Media) have to pay it to provide music listened to in a public space. Technically, if a restaurant or someplace similar installs a music system and plays reorded music not from a Musak-type service over it, they're supposed to pay a licensing fee too.
You don't actually own your 'purchased music' -- you own a license to listen to it for personal use -- especially true if you purchased it online -- outlined in the 50 pages of stuff we all clicked through to set up our accounts. When you go, your eMusic collection goes with you -- you can't will it to someone like a physical CD/LP/Tape music collection.
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You misunderstood. You'll still be able to share via home sharing on your Mac Mini, just no sharing from an iPhone or iPod Touch. They mentioned it in the article.
Why would I want to stream music that I already own over the internet when I can play it over Home Sharing without using up my bandwidth? Why are Apple forcing people into doing this and clogging up the network?
Can someone please tell me what the $9.99 / month gets you because I didn't sign up for the trial and I still have access to Apple Music Radio.
Just because you're not aware of it doesn't mean a lot of us with 16GB iPhones shouldn't care. We now can't stream our own 100+GB Music library in our own homes. Apple is forcing us to buy larger cap iPhone/iPads to keep more Music available at a moments notice or pay for subscriptions (Match, AppleMusic) , whereas before I could stream my entire library for free from my office into my bedroom or downstairs workshop. Thanks Apple! and goodbye.
I can only hope they did not include it in 8.4 because they are working on a much better version of the app (very doubtful). I've used this feature a lot until a couple years ago when it stopped loading my large library on the newer iOS's and iphones/ipads. The only thing that will load my library fairly quickly and reliably is my 1st gen ipad running iOS5. Really Apple?
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So if I am listening my music Offline in my car and someone else is in my car with me that is considered stealing? So RIAA is going to hunt me down now for the many years of listening to the radio with friends and family. Artist are mad hungry and yet they make such garbage and people for some reason still buy them.
+1. so, hold on -- this does kinda suck. i use homesharing to serve all the music in my house to different rooms, etc. managed by iTunes. as it so happens ALL the music is ripped from cd's that i've purchased, perhaps a small fraction of 1 percent of it (over 1500 albums total) being downloaded content. so this will effectively break my entire music playback system even though i don't use music that is only 'rented' by me via these services...
this i do not like. i will abandon iTunes lickety split and not look back if they don't figure out how to make this work again, regardless of their new music service. fail.