Apple TV iTunes Playback Glitch

Sometimes when I am playing music from my iTunes on my MacBook, designated to playback on Apple TV, I don't hear anything.  To fix the problem, I have to (while playback is happening) change destination from Apple TV to Compute back to Apple TV.  Then it work.  Glitch seems to happen at random.
Sometimes, when controling iTunes either from my MacBook or from Apple TV, playback sounds distorted until I reboot Apple TV.  Also annoying.
Can I do something to avoid these weird glitches?

This has been discussed, try a search.  Someone posted some script links that may work.  Not tried them.
Apple may or may not fix along with other bugs like genre listings with an apostrophe in.  (Children's movies listing all library content for example).
Main thing is to send feedback to show it's affecting you, as this is a user to user forum:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html

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