Help using apple tv for music

hi
i want to have this setup:
macbook conected to a hard drive of 2tb with all my music whoch is in aiff, i want to stream or connect that to an apple tv connected a bit far from it, to my audio system and tv, how does the macbook connect or stream music to the apple tv? can it be done wired? or wireless? or both?
thanks a lot for your help

can be done either wired or wireless
external USB Drive(s) <-USB-> MacBook <-Ethernet or wireless N, G-> router <-ethernet or wireless N, G-> AppleTV <-HDMI or Component + Optical and/or RCA audio cables-> A/V Receiver <-A/V Receiver -> TV + Speakers
*Put All Your Content on the External Drives*
either change the default location of your iTunes Library to the 2TB drive (Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General) and put all your content in this new location OR in iTunes when you add items to your iTunes library make sure you turn OFF *"copy items to iTunes folder when adding to iTunes Library"* in *Preferences > Advanced* and add your conten that way... the second option is good if you have multiple drives OR you could use a combination of the two
*Set up Streaming*
set the appleTV to link to the iTunes on the MB but choose "custom sync" in iTunes Prefs (click on appleTV icon under "devices" in iTunes to see the prefs)
in the tabs to set up syncing don't sync anything and make sure in the appleTV setting in iTunes you choose to "show unsynced items on appleTV"... this will display everything in iTunes on the appleTV but not sync it... when you click on it from the appleTV it will stream any content not on the appleTV.

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