Apple software quality - grrr!!!! And disabling IPv6?
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Something has gone badly wrong with software quality control at Apple. In the last couple of years, it seems they can hardly release any new software without buggering it up. The disastrous iOS updates are well documented, but those aren't the only f
k-ups.
iTunes 12.1 is another example. For the last few months, my Apple TV has frequently failed to connect to the "home sharing" on my computer so that it can play the computer's music/video content. Usually a reboot of either the computer or the Apple TV (or both) has sorted it, but last night it stopped working altogether*. Previously it "just worked" in the time-honoured Apple tradition.
Reboot computer and Apple TV? Nope.
Switch off home sharing on both iTunes and Apple TV and switch it back on again? Nope.
Sign the computer and Apple TV out of my Apple ID and sign in again? Nope.
Disable the firewall on the router? Nope.
Disable the firewall on Windows? Couldn't figure out how. (Can you even still do that?) In any case, iTunes is "allowed".
Refer to Google, and discover hordes of people with exactly the same complaint since iTunes 12.1.
Some say that running iTunes as administrator sorts it out. But I think my log-in has admin rights anyway (yes, I know that's poor practice). Did "run as administrator" work? Nope.
Eventually I find another suggestion: disable IPv6 on the computer by adding a registry setting and rebooting. Hoo-fking-ray - it works!
So, good people, is there any reason why disabling IPv6 on a Win7 machine is A Bad Thing To Do? Will anything else stop working?
* In fairness, it didn't just stop working. It was working last night, but the Apple TV was failing to show album artwork for some things. To try and fix this first-worldest of first-world problems, I shut down iTunes and deleted the artwork cache - restarted, and that's when the Apple TV would no longer reconnect to home sharing.
k-ups.iTunes 12.1 is another example. For the last few months, my Apple TV has frequently failed to connect to the "home sharing" on my computer so that it can play the computer's music/video content. Usually a reboot of either the computer or the Apple TV (or both) has sorted it, but last night it stopped working altogether*. Previously it "just worked" in the time-honoured Apple tradition.
Reboot computer and Apple TV? Nope.
Switch off home sharing on both iTunes and Apple TV and switch it back on again? Nope.
Sign the computer and Apple TV out of my Apple ID and sign in again? Nope.
Disable the firewall on the router? Nope.
Disable the firewall on Windows? Couldn't figure out how. (Can you even still do that?) In any case, iTunes is "allowed".
Refer to Google, and discover hordes of people with exactly the same complaint since iTunes 12.1.
Some say that running iTunes as administrator sorts it out. But I think my log-in has admin rights anyway (yes, I know that's poor practice). Did "run as administrator" work? Nope.
Eventually I find another suggestion: disable IPv6 on the computer by adding a registry setting and rebooting. Hoo-f
king-ray - it works!So, good people, is there any reason why disabling IPv6 on a Win7 machine is A Bad Thing To Do? Will anything else stop working?
* In fairness, it didn't just stop working. It was working last night, but the Apple TV was failing to show album artwork for some things. To try and fix this first-worldest of first-world problems, I shut down iTunes and deleted the artwork cache - restarted, and that's when the Apple TV would no longer reconnect to home sharing.
Edited by Dr Mike Oxgreen on Friday 27th February 08:57
If anyone's interested and has the same problem, the registry setting was under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\TCPIP6\Parameters". You need to create a DWORD value called "DisabledComponents". There are conflicting views as to whether this should be set to "ff" hex or "ffffffff" - I chose the former.
I agree OP. I first got into the whole Apple thing with my iPod classic and Macbook Pro in 2009. What a joy to use and very intuitive but lately I've really had to Google or speak to Apple employees about things which should be so easy to rectify.
iTunes is a joke nowadays and I used to defend it when people were slating it.
Still, all in all it still works well despite the little annoyances.
iTunes is a joke nowadays and I used to defend it when people were slating it.
Still, all in all it still works well despite the little annoyances.
Similar thoughts over the last 24hrs...Time Machine noted it needed to start a new backup...which wouldn't have been a problem had I not lost my IMAP "sent" folder around the same time (still avoiding blaming myself for this...I am convinced that something on Mac Mail caused that too!). Now I can't find any old sparsebundles to recover it from.
I'm starting to realise why Apple kept a lot of stuff local without sharing/centralised capabilities...some of their stuff simply doesn't work that well in that mode (and I guess there are simply too many permutations out there to cover all eventualities).
I'm starting to realise why Apple kept a lot of stuff local without sharing/centralised capabilities...some of their stuff simply doesn't work that well in that mode (and I guess there are simply too many permutations out there to cover all eventualities).
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