Hi Mark, HomeSharing is a method of sharing media between devices using the same Apple ID within the same subnet. Therefore, this HomeSharing is done via ethernet or a WIFI connection within that network. You must first ensure that HomeSharing is turned on on each device. You can confirm this on your iPhone from within the Music pane of your Settings, just make sure that it has HomeSharing attached to your Apple ID. On the Mac, it is done from within iTunes itself from within the File menu.
>From your iDevices, you can access iTunes Libraries on your Mac or Macs to >play media stored there. The reverse is not possible as far as I can tell. >To access media stored on your Mac from your iPhone using HomeSharing, do the >following: • Make sure that your Mac is turned on with iTunes open. • Open the Music app on your iPhone. • Open the More button in the bottom right corner. • Navigate until you find the Shared tab and open it. This is where things are not as accessible as they should be. VO will read the label for your iPhone as "My iPhone" but will not properly announce the HomeSharing items. I checked with my daughter and it appears that the HomeSharing choices are there alphabetically so as you swipe right, you will ascend through any HomeSharing choices. Now, for ease of explanation, I will assume that only one iTunes Library is available, so double-tap on the first item that VO stops at but does not announce and wait a few seconds as the Library is loaded. After it has loaded, you will be presented with a list of available playlists. Double-tap on the one you wish to gain access to and then you can play the music from that playlist. The limitations of HomeSharing from the iPhone prospective is that it seems that you only have access to the music from your HomeSharing Mac whereas when you do this between Macs, all media is sharable. Regarding your girlfriend's iPhone, the only way that you can sync her device with your Mac is if you either set it up from your Mac or if it has never been connected to any other Mac thus the initial "pairing" is performed to your Mac. Now, if all you wish to do is give her access to your iTunes Library on your Mac, then you can accomplish this by having her iPHone connect to your HomeShare with the same Apple ID as your HomeShare. This will allow streaming of music from your Mac to her iPhone but does not allow for copying of this music to her iPhone. Hope this makes sense. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-06-09, at 4:25 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter <markbaxte...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list. > > I'm trying very hard to understand home sharing. I have a MacBook Pro and > iPhone 5, both sharing in Apple ID, but I cannot get to home share anything > over Wi-Fi or USB. Also, my girlfriend's iPhone 4S should be able to sync > with My mac and iPhone 5, but I cannot figure out how to do this. > > Can someone please walk me through the steps to shut up home sharing? I have > home sharing over Wi-Fi turned on on my MacBook. > > Thanks a lot. Hope everyone's weekend is great. :-) > > Sent from my iPhone > Messengers and Skype: BurningHawk1969 > My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markburninghawk.baxter > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
