Hot answers tagged home-sharing
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Launch the iPod App on your iPhone. At the bottom of the screen, you should see a More button with 3 blue dots.
As you can see here, there is a Shared list item at the bottom of the page. Click that, which should bring you to a screen like:
Click the name of the computer that you see in your list and then all of the videos, movies, tv shows, etc, will ...
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You have two questions here. ( and ~ is short for the /Users/current_user folder)
1) For apps only to show up in your account - move them to ~/Applications
2) If a user is not part of the Administrators group then that user cannot install apps in /Applications which is the normal place for shared Applications. Non admin users can install apps in their ...
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On the computer
Open iTunes
Turn on Home Sharing in the Advanced menu
Keep iTunes running
On the iDevice
Open Preferences
Open Music Preferences
Enter same AppleID for Home Sharing as in iTunes (note, you may have to re-enter the account if it appears already to be there. This both verifies the stored password is correct and re-registers the iOS device ...
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Firstly, in order for AppleTV to see the iTunes Library a user must be logged in and running iTunes. If both of these are not present then AppleTV won't work.
Since they are on the same physical Mac might I recommend combining the iTunes Media folder and placing it in the /Users/Shared/ directory. As all users have access to the Shared directory the actual ...
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I have a similar setup - 5 iPhones, a couple of computers, iPad, etc.
I have the masters on my Pro - it's always on and powerful enough to keep iTunes and iPhoto running in the background.
Each user has their own iCloud account for email, calendars, etc.
We share a single family AppleID for purchases - this is setup on each device for Music, Videos, and ...
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Have you considered iTunes Match for music & iCloud Photo Stream for the photos?
There is a total of 4 people in our family and between us we have 5 iOS devices, an Apple TV, a few laptops and an iMac. The iMac is setup as our main digital hub. It contains our master iTunes and iPhoto libraries. Here is our setup:
Music Setup:
We have one Apple ID ...
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Home Sharing is done under a different Apple ID than the one the computer is authorized for. I have my computer registered under my ID (with automatic downloads on!), and Home Sharing set up under a family ID.
To do this correctly:
Make sure you are signed in to your ID under the Store menu.
Log in to the shared ID with the appropriate command under the ...
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It should be in Music under More -> Shared
Selecting your iTunes library then puts it in a home sharing mode and to return to the iPhone's music go to More -> Shared again
How to use Home Sharing on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad
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Mathias is correct about the proper way to sync photos to your iPad. Sharing photos from iTunes approves them for Home Sharing, a system designed to share iTunes Store purchases and media amongst family members.
Apple Knowledgebase: iTunes: Setting up Home Sharing on your computer
Home Sharing can also be used to allow access to photos from an AppleTV.
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You don't copy Photos to an iPad using the Advanced menu…
Here’s how I do it: go to iTunes → Devices → Your iOS Device → Photos → enable “Sync Photos from…” and choose either iPhoto album(s) or a folder on your hard drive. Then press the Sync button in the bottom right corner.
See Apple Knowledgebase: iOS and iPod: Syncing photos using iTunes for more ...
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Two software options (for both Mac and Windows). Both turn your work computer into an Airplay destination, so you can stream audio directly from your iPhone to your computer. This lets you play music from your iPhone without worrying about syncing, copying songs, etc.
On the Mac, there's the open source app called Airmac. And on Windows, you can try the ...
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I would highly recommend looking into iTunes Match.
It allows you to sync all your music across multiple computers, iPads, iPhones, and iPods. Not only that, but it will let you stream music that is in the cloud that you have synced and not on your computer. This may be a good solution for you when you want to listen to songs but don't have them on your ...
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The iTunes Store Term and Conditions are available in almost any country and can be found here. The Terms and Conditions, as outlined by Apple, should address your broad question.
As Daniel has raised the issue of "sharing in the workplace", it is a point of contention that one can argue what "sharing for personal, noncommercial use" entails. Does that ...
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At least in the US agreement, Apple only authorizes people to use iTunes content for "personal, noncommercial use." Nothing I find in the agreement licenses the user to share their content with others at the workplace. So yes, there are potential legal issues.
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Create a new playlist on your local machine with the same name as the one you would like to import.
Click on the library that you wish to import a playlist from over Home Sharing.
Expand the library by clicking on the arrow to the left of the name.
Expand the folder called Playlists from within the library.
Drag the playlist from the home sharing library ...
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Check out this link from apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
I think the section on transferring your music library via an external drive is what you're looking for, with appropriate substitutions given that you're looking to transfer over a network.
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I've got this same situation going at home; two computers with separate iTunes Store accounts, an AppleTV that pulls content from both of them, and iTunes Home Sharing turned on.
The automatic syncing behavior is optional and, I believe, opt-in. When you turn on Home Sharing and select it in iTunes, you'll see this down in the bottom right corner:
When ...
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The key problem I found was entering different info in the Artist or Album Artist info. I had put the director's name of the episodes in there. While everything else was set up right (Album was the show name, episode ID, # and track # were all correct), I was still getting weird breaks on my iOS device. I removed the director's names and just entered them ...
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After a lot of experimenting, I finally found a repeatable procedure that causes the shared library to group correctly on an iPad. Please note, there may be unnecessary steps in this procedure, but it does work. Note also, that this procedure works for iTunes 10.6.1 (7) runiing on Mac OS X Lion (10.7.3) and iPad Videos App in ios 5.1 (9B176) running on a ...
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It's all about the metadata ‚ the track information stored in each media file.
A while back I had this problem with TV Shows ripped from DVD not displaying correctly, or not in the proper sort order, on my iPad. When I compared the metadata for my home-brewed files with those from files of episodes purchased from the the iTunes store, I discovered some ...
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It seems that Advanced > Choose Photos to Share uses iTunes' Home Sharing feature to share photos with Apple TV devices.
If you want to sync photos from your computer to the iPad, you can either use PhotoStream or enable photo syncing when you connect the iPad.
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I just fixed this issue on my iPad. Shared TV Shows had many repeats, one couldn't navigate. This all came from the items I'd ripped from DVDs that I'd purchased on put into iTunes.
Setting the Artist and Album Artist fields to something appropriate for the show fixes it. (select the similar shows in iTunes and use Command ⌘ + I to edit them all at once)
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Unfortunately Home Sharing videos on iOS has had some issues for a while now - TV shows out of order and in some cases duplicates. To my knowledge there isn't a proper fix, but some people have suggested that signing out of Home Sharing then back in again on the iPad (i.e. removing your username and password) can fix it some of the time.
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This has always worked for me and here is a test I just performed on iOS 5.0.1 (9A405) and iTunes 10.5 (141).
make a smart playlist of songs rated higher than three stars and browse it on your iOS device
the only bug I see is sometimes when you go to settings, the current stars don't show, but when I change the rating it is reflected in the iTunes listing ...
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To solve this problem & set the artist of all shows to the name of the TV show & set all episode IDs in the form of S#E# (season number & episode number)
PS. when setting the episode ID of the first 9 episode write the as "05" not just "5" else they will not be sorted correctly.
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iPhone 4S, iPad 2, Home shares showing on other PCs on the network but not iOS devices.
Tried everything above, yada yada no changes.
Solution: Check your wireless router settings. Specifically, Mulitcast Filtering
On a Linksys WRT610N, go to Security \ Firewall \ Internet Filter
Put a check beside "Multicast Filtering" and save settings
No other changes ...
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You have to make sure that your computer with iTunes and the iPad/iPod/iPhone device are connected to the same router. I have an Easybox router from Vodafone and my iPad was connected to that router. But this router has an Airport Extreme in bridged mode connected to it and that is where my iTunes was connected to. As soon as my iOS devices logged into the ...
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I'm having the same issue, only my desktop machine is an iMac.
What worked for me was:
Under the "Advanced" menu in iTunes, there's a little item labelled "Turn On Home Sharing." Even though I had my Apple ID entered in Preferences, and the Sharing preference pane showed "Status: On," it didn't work until I found the item in the Advanced menu.
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This is only a pointer to a possible clue. I read in this discussion in Apple Support Communities that there may be a problem with iTunes Home Sharing not recognizing certain files because of particular extended meta tags attached to them. Editing and changing the meta tags enables iTunes Home Sharing to work with them.
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iTunes Home Sharing works for me to send playable Apple Lossless songs to iPhone / iPad and another Mac streaming songs.
There may be a problem with your setup since it is supposed to work and does for me. Perhaps someone else will chime in with their experience - but I have seen it work recently at several friend's houses as well as in my setup.
I'm ...
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