Owners of Apple's new MacBook Pros report issues with iTunes Home Sharing
Numerous owners of Apple's early 2011 MacBook Pros report being unable to connect devices or maintain connections through iTunes Home Sharing.
A support thread in Apple's Discussion forums has received over 200 posts from owners of Apple's latest MacBook Pros reporting issues with iTunes Home Sharing. Several readers have also contacted AppleInsider regarding the issue.
"This is turning out to be a bigger problem than I thought with many people giving up and returning their new MBP 2011 due to this conflict. Apple has yet to find a fix but it has been widely documented via phone through AppleCare and through many Apple retail stores," wrote one reader.
According to forum user 'themacbear,' the new MacBook Pro was able to stream to a second-generation Apple TV at first, but then the Apple TV reported being unable to connect or would display the error message "There are no movies in this library."
Apple released the upgraded MacBook Pro lineup with Sandy Bridge processors and high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology in late February.
In March, Apple released iOS 4.3 with new Home Sharing features. The Mac maker also issued iTunes 10.2 and then iTunes 10.2.1 to add compatibility with iOS 4.3 and Home Sharing. In spite of the updates, a number of users continue to report being unable to connect or maintain connections with iOS devices on their early 2011 MacBook Pros.
Recent improvements to the Home Sharing feature expand iTunes library sharing from just between Macs, PCs and Apple TVs to include mobile devices such as iPods, iPhones and iPads. When working properly, Home Sharing in iOS 4.3 allows an unlimited number of iOS devices to access content over Wi-Fi.
Though early 2011 MacBook Pros appear to be having the most trouble with Home Sharing, owners of older machines have also reported problems with the feature in a support thread for Home Sharing in iOS 4.3 that has reached 60 posts.
A support thread in Apple's Discussion forums has received over 200 posts from owners of Apple's latest MacBook Pros reporting issues with iTunes Home Sharing. Several readers have also contacted AppleInsider regarding the issue.
"This is turning out to be a bigger problem than I thought with many people giving up and returning their new MBP 2011 due to this conflict. Apple has yet to find a fix but it has been widely documented via phone through AppleCare and through many Apple retail stores," wrote one reader.
According to forum user 'themacbear,' the new MacBook Pro was able to stream to a second-generation Apple TV at first, but then the Apple TV reported being unable to connect or would display the error message "There are no movies in this library."
Apple released the upgraded MacBook Pro lineup with Sandy Bridge processors and high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology in late February.
In March, Apple released iOS 4.3 with new Home Sharing features. The Mac maker also issued iTunes 10.2 and then iTunes 10.2.1 to add compatibility with iOS 4.3 and Home Sharing. In spite of the updates, a number of users continue to report being unable to connect or maintain connections with iOS devices on their early 2011 MacBook Pros.
Recent improvements to the Home Sharing feature expand iTunes library sharing from just between Macs, PCs and Apple TVs to include mobile devices such as iPods, iPhones and iPads. When working properly, Home Sharing in iOS 4.3 allows an unlimited number of iOS devices to access content over Wi-Fi.
Though early 2011 MacBook Pros appear to be having the most trouble with Home Sharing, owners of older machines have also reported problems with the feature in a support thread for Home Sharing in iOS 4.3 that has reached 60 posts.
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Anyway my 2010 MBP seems to be fine.
The "problems" reported with 2011 MBPs from various forums up till now:
1) Use of Intel's flawed chipset despite the problematic SATA ports not being in use;
2) Heat issues;
and now
3) iTunes home sharing
What's next?
Before today, the library name would show up but I was unable to browse it and was not able to connect to other libraries. I had tried removing the home share and adding back as well as deleting the library and re-adding. Just glad it's working now.
I would access Home Sharing but after about 20-30 minutes, it would drop me and would give me the "Turn on Homesharing." Normally, I would just have to quit and restart iTunes to get it back up and running, but 20-30 minutes later, it happened again.
I finally went to an Apple Store a couple of days ago to ask about it and they said the issue was with my ATV and just swapped my old one and replaced it with a new one.
However, this did not help as I continue to have the issue. I hope that Apple get this fixed quickly.
I'm interested to hear of other people's issues.
Best
rhbruce -- quit itunes, and then, without doing anything else, reopen it. home sharing will be broken.
Should have tested it a little more extensively before doing this. I can still "pull" video from another machine to play on my MBP, I can "push" audio from my MBP to my ATV2. I cannot push video to the ATV2 and I cannot connect to the MBP library from the ATV2 although it does show up in the list (just fails to connect).
I know before today I couldn't do anything with home sharing but even with the little I can do, fact is it's still broke.
These issues make me appreciate my 3.5 year old Santa Rosa 17" MB Pro.
These issues makes me appreciate my 3.5 year old Rosa who loves Santa!
I guess I'm lucky then?
I have had this same problem on my Late 2006 17" 2.33 GHz MB Pro, too. Perhaps it is an AirPort problem? An iTunes problem?
My late 2006 15" 2.16GHz MBP is also having this issue- whereas our newer i3 iMac seems to be available on the Apple TV 2 reliably.
Come on Apple!
Looks like finding fault with Apple products is the norm and the first thing to do and whine .