It also affects iHomeServer when iHomeServer is running iTunes in the background as a service (because the Windows service session uses a virtual graphics card rather than your real hardware one). This seems to include virtual machines running iTunes.
#Windows home server 2011 hacks upgrade#
The 12.x upgrade has a major flaw that it has removed support for importing / playing videos for computers with 'old' (in Apple's terms) video cards. iTunes 12.2 has just been released and shares the same issue. Although labelled as a minor upgrade, under the covers, Apple has made a major change to the distribution for 64-bit Windows. Using iTunes 12.x 64-bit with iHomeServerĪpple released iTunes 12.1 for Windows 64-bit in April. This does not affect Apple TV or if you use iTunes to stream your music - these still work fine, and you can still stream your movies/television episodes to the Videos app on iOS 8.4.įor a workaround, you can use iHomeServer's web interface for iTunes which will let you navigate your iTunes library and stream media direct to your device.įortunately, it looks as if this is just a temporary thing, with Apple's Eddy Cue confirming that iTunes Home Sharing will be brought back to the Music app in iOS 9 which should be released in a few months time. We want to advise iHomeServer users that in an attempt to rush out Apple Music, it looks like Apple didn't finish developing Home Sharing functionality for the new music app in iOS 8.4Īs such, if you upgrade your iOS device to 8.4 you will lose the ability to stream music from your iHomeServer / iTunes server to your device.
#Windows home server 2011 hacks how to#
This was no longer in the iOS 8.4 update but fortunately, is now fully restored in iOS 9.įor more details on how to enable it please see this link:
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This is of course of interest to iHomeServer users many of whom use iTunes on a headless server to consolidate their personal music library and then stream from that library to all their devices. We guess that it was removed because of Apple's desire to ship 8.4 with Apple Music which entirely replaced the previous music app, and now they've had some time to re-add the missing component.įor anyone who doesn't know, Home Sharing for the Music app gives your iPhone / iPad the ability to stream music from an iTunes library running on a desktop version of iTunes. You switch it on the same way you did prior to iOS 8.4 which bizarrely removed the feature without any notice.
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As we speculated in our previous post, Apple has restored the much commiserated removal of Home Sharing from the Music app in the recent release of iOS 9.