Apple TV won't play music from one device via Home Sharing.

So I have just bought a new Mac, with which I got an Apple TV. I'm trying to save disk space on my Mac so I've setup my old computer (with my old iTunes library) as a Home Sharing hub kind of thing. However, the Apple TV seems not to want to play music from this device...it shows the song, but the buffering symbol comes up under the song and nothing happens. Sometimes some songs will work, and shuffling also seems to work, but it will randomnly skip some songs without even attempting playback.
I've tried playing the same music on the Apple TV via Home Sharing on my Mac — fine. I've tried listening to the music (and just generally playing music) using Home Sharing from my old laptop to my Mac and it's fine, impressively speedily, in fact.
Does anybody have any ideas as to what may cause this?
Thanks

Dutch Oven wrote:
I am having a similar issue, but it's only affecting stuff I added to my library > 9 months ago. See the thread I created here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2601054&tstart=0. How long ago was your music added to your library? I'm guessing it was a while ago.
I added my music to iTunes years ago. Most of it was with version 6.x of iTunes. I see all of my music and it plays fine so something else must be triggering the problem.
I also have 'Show list checkboxes' checked.

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