Music Library Disappears from AppleTV

I transferred all of my CDs to an Apple TV two years 18 months ago. I don't listen to music regularly, sometimes weeks pass. I went to access my libray recently and my music had disappeared. I am using the system wirelessly and suspect that something is wrong there. I did reset factory settings, unlugged everything, and rebooted; to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

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Do you simply mean content you synced to the Apple tv is no longer synced and only available to stream, or do you mean it isn't available at all either synced or via streaming. Has anything else changed, have you changed any settings.

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