Error (-15000) I'm officially frustrated

I'm still getting this error (-15000). It's been happening ever since I updated to Itunes 8.
I know there have been several posts about this, but from the ones I've found I haven't found a fix for my specific problem. All my software is up to date. Please someone help me fix this.
I do not have airport express or exteme. I just want to use the speakers that are connected to my apple tv to occationally listen to and control music while I'm still sitting at my mac.
I have a 2wire wireless router from AT&T. I've set my firewall settings to allow all incoming connections, I've also tried to allow specific connections. Please give me some Ideas.

check out this. it solved my problem
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2278

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I had the same problem, intermittent to the point of frustration. I followed the instructions in tech issue
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1224 ,
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Since I have installed iTunes 8 my apple tv has been acting very strange. Has anyone else noticed?
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Paul Jefferson wrote:
But my main gripe now is, I use it as an air tunes client, and that consistently doesn't work. I just get an Unknown error -15000
I (and many others) have the same problem since updating to iTunes 8. There is nothing you can do about it, unfortunately. We'll have to wait for an iTunes update to have this problem fixed.
Winston Churchill wrote:
Do you have iPv6 enabled.
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can not download my rental movies because an unknown error.... so frustrating...

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have been using airport express to stream music wirelessly from my itunes to my stereo for 7 months without a hitch and all of a sudden after updating to the latest version of iTunes this morning 8.2.1 I can no longer stream music through Airport Express - any idea why this is happening? Anyone else having this problem?
My firmware on my Airport Express is up-to-date and I completely reinstalled it as well.
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Ok, I can conform this on my machine, a MPB, where i was getting -15000 errors. When i connected my power adapter it worked fine.
This is the craziest bug i've yet to encoounter on a Mac ... how on earth laptop power and WiFi can be related i do not know.
Interestingly, I can connect to Airtunes speakers via ethernet on my laptop (to Wifi Airport Express) without power, but not via WiFi on my laptop.
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Hey old topic but with the lastest itunes 10.6.11 i had the issue appear with an Apple TV3. My setup worked for months but all of a sudden they stopped connecting.
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Welcome to the discussions forum divonka.
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