Apple TV drops the music streaming from iTunes after 5-10 songs

I even changed the energy settings on my macbook pro so the disk drive does not "sleep" but nothing seems to help. Any ideas?

That would indicate an issue with your wireless network. I would check for interference using istumbler as that is the most common, and especially since the one connected via Ethernet is fine

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