iOS 8.4 Removes Home Sharing for Music

Frojo said:
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.
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I think people are getting confused between home sharing and family sharing. I've updated to 8.4 and have no interest in Apple Music and my home sharing has been removed (or hidden somewhere where I can't find it).

Apple seem to be removing or balking the functionality that I use most. Shuffling all songs (which is how I listen to my music 95% of the time) is now a faff. You have use Siri - not really practical in a busy office - or choose a song to start with and then shuffle from there.
 
Aw Apple man what the actual ****? This move is just pure lame. Not everyone has good enough internet to stream music from servers halfway round the world. Weak weak weak weak weak weak. Apple have really changed into something I do not like. Its about profits more than ever now.
 
Frojo said:
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.
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I don't think anyone is complaining about Family Sharing, are they? This is about Home Sharing. Family Sharing and Home Sharing are NOT the same thing.

Family Sharing still works, Apple Music subscription or not. Home Sharing has been removed, Apple Music subscription or not.
 
Apple giveth and Apple can taketh away. It's Apple's ecosystem.

Meanwhile, I'll keep enjoying free Rhapsody music streaming care of T Mobile.
 
if apple removed home sharing for videos I would be very upset because I like to keep all my movies / DVD rips in iTunes on the desktop and copy them into the default video app on iOS using iTunes wifisync or watch on iOS via home sharing (iTunes acts as a media server).

However since this is just for music, I couldn't give a rats ass. I never use home sharing to listen to music.
 
Surprised and very disappointed that Genius mixes are out. I was very much hoping to create genius mixes within Apple Music. Is there a different way of doing the same thing?
 
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.
 
stiligFox said:
Still, $2000 over 10 years is a lot of dough.
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Speaking of dough. :p

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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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It's not really the same thing. I have lots of music in iTunes from other music providers (eMusic) which may not be on Apple Music (certainly wasn't on iTunes Store). Plus, there's no point streaming from an Apple server if I already have a copy on the local network, it's slower and a waste of bandwidth.
 
I think Apple are being slightly dishonest. They sell us features and remove them when it suits them.
I found Home Sharing to be very useful; music sat in iTunes on my iMac in high quality.
I could go into another room with my IPad, plug in a pair of headphones, relax and listen to music streamed from my iMac via my iPad.
It now appears that I can't, or else I can't find how it can be done anymore.
I have purchased or created all my music and now I can't use it as zi wish.
As much as I like apple music, most of the music I like is NOT available from their servers, so I need Home Shating of MY music back.
Shameful attititude and behaviour from Apple.
Over the 16 years that I have been using their products they have on many occasions unilaterally removed services, often paid for serviced.
I don't know why I am so loyal and spend so much of my hard earned cash with them.
 
jdbr said:
I think Apple are being slightly dishonest. They sell us features and remove them when it suits them.
I found Home Sharing to be very useful; music sat in iTunes on my iMac in high quality.
I could go into another room with my IPad, plug in a pair of headphones, relax and listen to music streamed from my iMac via my iPad.
It now appears that I can't, or else I can't find how it can be done anymore.
I have purchased or created all my music and now I can't use it as zi wish.
As much as I like apple music, most of the music I like is NOT available from their servers, so I need Home Shating of MY music back.
Shameful attititude and behaviour from Apple.
Over the 16 years that I have been using their products they have on many occasions unilaterally removed services, often paid for serviced.
I don't know why I am so loyal and spend so much of my hard earned cash with them.
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Pretty much this for me. My personal music sit son my Mac mini as a server. I have some tracks locally on my iPad's and iPhone but with Home Sharing I had access to my whole library anywhere in the house and it is convenient. I truly hope this is coming back otherwise it is a big black mark against Apple.
 
magicMac said:
if apple removed home sharing for videos I would be very upset because I like to keep all my movies / DVD rips in iTunes on the desktop and copy them into the default video app on iOS using iTunes wifisync or watch on iOS via home sharing (iTunes acts as a media server).

However since this is just for music, I couldn't give a rats ass. I never use home sharing to listen to music.
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You sure about that? I just opened videos and do not see the home sharing option anymore. I hope I'm tripping b/c we actually use that feature. If they ever remove it from Apple TV I will seriously flip.

Update: My bad, my mac fell off the network for some reason. Home sharing for video probably still works.
 
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GrahamSL said:
I don't think anyone is complaining about Family Sharing, are they? This is about Home Sharing. Family Sharing and Home Sharing are NOT the same thing.

Family Sharing still works, Apple Music subscription or not. Home Sharing has been removed, Apple Music subscription or not.
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Yup, hands up, I have confused family and home sharing- sorry for confusing the issue.
 
TsMkLg068426 said:
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.
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In answer to your questions, no and no.
 
They've also managed to break Home Sharing music for desktop as well; at least the album view, I simply cannot get it to load when connecting to iTunes on another Mac, I have to use one of the other views, which is annoying as album view is the one I used the most.

They had better not try to ditch Home Sharing though, as I use it for sharing music that I didn't get through iTunes at all. My music library is much too large to sync onto all my devices, and I also connect to the same library through different use accounts (keeping things like work, gaming etc. completely separate), so the last thing I'd want to do is duplicate 80gb of music.

I know there's still the old sharing mechanism, but this doesn't update play counts or mark TV shows as watched etc.
 
The reason I gave the iPad another chance at all is, with drivespace limited to 512 on the MBP, there's no room to waste on the music library, and since dragging an external HD around with you everywhere is a hassle and Time Machine won't back up that external anyway, it makes the most sense to keep the media directly on the iPad and stream it from there. ...using the external hd as the redundant backup, from which iTunes syncs the content to the iPad for restores or as needed.

If Plex works, then this just means Apples Music app will join the others in the trash folder.

We already replaced 32 iPads with Surface Pros in the office because they were nowhere as useful. I'd abandoned our iPads at home once before as well when they turned iOS into a slow bloated copy of android, & then abandoned hope when they failed to update the Mini.

Ever since about iOS6, it's just been a long string of disappointments.
 
Not cool, Apple. Taking away features is very bad. Another reason not to upgrade the software. Then it becomes another reason not to bother buying new hardware. That reduces Apple's sales and profits. Bad move, Apple.
 
gixxerfool said:
That's a dick move Apple. Not everyone wants to stream with your service, some of us like to stream the media locally.
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Fine, I think it is a dick move to accuse Apple of only having their bottom line in mind when deciding about features. If you have an unmetered internet connection at home, you can stream all your music for free during the three-months free trial. Only if Home Sharing doesn't return before the end of that, would I start to make a stink.
 
pubwvj said:
Not cool, Apple. Taking away features is very bad. Another reason not to upgrade the software. Then it becomes another reason not to bother buying new hardware. That reduces Apple's sales and profits. Bad move, Apple.
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Taking away features is not inherently bad, over time it's positively essential. However, it has to be the right features for the right reasons. You'll always upset *somebody* no matter which feature you take away, but if something is only used by 1% of your users (for example), then sooner or later, upsetting that 1% is worth it.
 
pubwvj said:
Not cool, Apple. Taking away features is very bad. Another reason not to upgrade the software. Then it becomes another reason not to bother buying new hardware. That reduces Apple's sales and profits. Bad move, Apple.
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