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iOS 8.4 Removes Home Sharing for Music
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FIX THE GODDAMN ****ING ITUNES! This is ridiculous. You want it to be the CENTER OF THE HOME and then you put out this. Get your **** straight Apple.
isn't the simple answer to allow remote to send music to the phone or pod? with remote app i can access any music on my home shares - i can send it to any airplay device but not to the phone I'm using remote on!
Don't worry, Video Sharing to be removed when Apple gets around to launching their own Netflix like competitor at sometime in the future,
Actually it will, Plex was a supurb solution for me to finally ditch iTunes as my media server, which now allows me to stream my video and audio library (Almost 10 TB of it) anywhere i have internet access, on any device, in my home or out and about, no more needing to sync or shuffle content about)
Plex also meant i could get rid of the terrible interfaced Apple TV pucks, my PS4 has Plex so no new box needed in the lounge, and i have stuck a chrome cast in the bedroom.
best thing i did was break away from the apple eco-system, its gone from being a supurb centralized solution, to a messed about with nightmare that you cant be sure they wont break next update because they want to monetize a previously free feature or remove the feature because it competes with a new service they are trying to sell.
Apple has gone all evil empire now, and im out..
To be honest I wasn't aware of Home Sharing on iPhone, but this creates a disturbing precedent. Without Home Sharing, Apple TV loses half of its value as a media hub.
Home Sharing on iOS has been broken for years (~since iOS 7). If Apple wanted to fix it they would have done so a long time ago. This is certainly one way to get rid of bugs.
This is why you should never rely on services like this. One day they just take them away and you're screwed. Take your music and good ol' copy/paste it to other people's device and then you bypass home sharing altogether. If we keep relying on things like iCloud, Home Sharing, Family Sharing, then one day we'll be really surprised when they decide to no longer make them free, or when they stop working. Your stuff is only truly yours if you can do whatever you want with it. As for streaming, I'll just use a very long audio cable. They can't take that away at least.
This makes sense, as I avoided apple music with a vengeance, and all is well! My iTunes app is still red as well?? ..... never changed, but I am using 12.2
Synology NAS does my home sharing work for music and video. DLNA to the receiver or smart TV. iOS Apps on the phones. Requires me to sync my music library to keep it up to date, but that serves as a second copy safety net too. I manually copy video files to it as I'm not a heavy viewer. Ain't perfect but works for me.
Interesting hearing people complain because I would figure that people are use to the crap moves Apple makes by now.
For example Apple defending a 16GB iPhone in 2015 while all other Android flagships costing over $550 have 32gb minimum. If everyone does not need a 32gb phone then everyone does not need a flagship phone to begin with. It's called a flagship for a reason. Every move Apple makes is related to profits. So it's ironic when people brag about Apple making more money than Android.
Either live with it or move on. You either have to be Taylor Swift or the change is so bad it's recognized outside the geek community for Apple to do anything about it.
For example Apple defending a 16GB iPhone in 2015 while all other Android flagships costing over $550 have 32gb minimum. If everyone does not need a 32gb phone then everyone does not need a flagship phone to begin with. It's called a flagship for a reason. Every move Apple makes is related to profits. So it's ironic when people brag about Apple making more money than Android.
Either live with it or move on. You either have to be Taylor Swift or the change is so bad it's recognized outside the geek community for Apple to do anything about it.
He must not be on 8.4. The home sharing option for music is gone in 8.4 and Apple's support document for Home Sharing has been edited to remove any mention of home sharing of music.
PS-Thanks Husain Sumra for writing a front page MacRumors story on this issue. Hopefully we can get Apple to backtrack on this dumb move.
ITT Corp once made things, it stopped, disconglomerated and became a hotel and entertainment company.
Gulf+Western once made things, it stopped, disconglomerated and became Paramont pictures.
Seagrams once made beverages and became a conglomerate, it demerged and became owned by other entities.
I wonder if what we are seeing is the beginning of the end of Apple becoming an entertainment company at the expense of once having been a company that offered really good products and services that supported the sale of those products.
Gulf+Western once made things, it stopped, disconglomerated and became Paramont pictures.
Seagrams once made beverages and became a conglomerate, it demerged and became owned by other entities.
I wonder if what we are seeing is the beginning of the end of Apple becoming an entertainment company at the expense of once having been a company that offered really good products and services that supported the sale of those products.
Actually harry*333 just made me rethink this. Since I haven't tested this myself, I'm wondering if he's right, if it's just disabling sharing Music on iOS devices, that would not as big a deal as the other way around. Most of us have their "master library" on a Mac and want to Home share from Mac->iPhone/iPad/ATV . Is that broken in 8.4 or not ?
Can anyone confirm this who was brave enough to upgrade. I don't trust Apple to not suddenly stop signing 8.3 and I'd be stuck on the newer version.
People are reacting to stuff they rely on working, suddenly being taken away.Typical over reaction from some people to change!
I can still access my own iTunes Library on my iOS device using the Remote app
Remote App is different from sharing your Mac hosted Music library thru the "Shared" function in the Music App on iOS.
Assuming you're on 8.4, can you confirm if that still works ?
I am using 8.4 for x2 iPhones,x2 iPads... 10.10.4 for MacBook Pro and mac min with 12.2 for both iTunes.
Family sharing with me as organiser and my partner with separate iCloud a/c , is working entirely as before- complete share of all content and apps.
it must be the music trial/subscription which is affecting sharing.
Apple TV next being disabled, when updated to Apple Music by fall??
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/apple-bring-back-music-home-sharing
Sign the petition to Tim Cook, to bring back Music Home Sharing
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/apple-bring-back-music-home-sharing
Sign the petition to Tim Cook, to bring back Music Home Sharing
You have a point. I'm relatively new to the Apple universe (Jobs' final keynote was the first I saw) but even I've noticed a bigger shift away from "it just works" and emphasis on the 'user experience' towards nothing being of interest or motivation to them except profit, rather than profit being the natural outcome of providing good equipment and solid OS. To my mind, purchases of £1200+ shouldn't be considered disposable, but that's another argument.
There's no denying that Tim has been great for Apple, but has he been great for the users of their products? I'm not sure. I guess it's just the natural consequence of having a 'money guy' in the top position. Nothing we can about it except vote with our wallets I guess. And I have to admit, that as much as I love my 6 Plus I might consider an Android next time round. In fact until the 6 came out I was 50/50 on which way to jump.
But, back on topic, I just wish Apple - when releasing new software - would send out email links to user manuals to everyone's cloud email just so we had half a chance of knowing what they've removed and where they've moved other stuff to. Removing Home Sharing without letting people know beforehand is a nasty move, and if they're going to make moves like that I don't think an email going out the day before the update goes live telling people what features have been (re)moved would kill them. They don't seem to mind sending me emails telling me to buy my Dad a MacBook for Father's Day.