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I recently set up a AppleTV for my neighbor and we are having problems getting all of the music to show up on his Apple TV.
First his set-up. PC laptop with Vista (very slow computer), iTunes 9.0.2, Apple TV 3.0, very large music library (400+ Gigs). Connect via ethernet.
When setting up iTunes and the AppleTV, we chose to stream all music. When done syncing, the AppleTV only shows about 1/2 of the total tracks. Back to the drawing board... I looked at the files and all are mp3 files and all files play in iTunes without a problem. For example, on the AppleTV there were 4 Aerosmith albums, but there are 8 in iTunes. I made sure all boxes were "checked" in front of the songs. I even converted a few songs to a different format. No luck getting them to show up on the AppleTV via syncing.
Next step, factory restore on AppleTV. Again, no luck. This time a different number of tracks stream and it was even a smaller number than before! Even some tracks there were there before the restore are now gone?
Any ideas? I'm pulling my hair out. I've had my AppleTV for a very long time. I have never had a problem such as this. I also have a large library, but primarily focused around movies from my DVDs. So, I have the same size, but vastly smaller number of total files. Is there a max cap on this thing?

Try Repopulating itunes with some of the content that doesn't show up, don't forget to sync afterwards.
If this helps you might want to rebuild his itunes library.

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