My Apple TV only Streams - How do I synch?

I've read you can synch your itunes library to your Apple TV so that you don't have to have your PC on and iTunes running to listen to Apple TV. I checked out the Apple TV settings in iTunes and it shows as "streaming". I am unable to find anywhere to set this to synch and effectively load media onto the Apple TV. Am I wrong in this assumption and if not, how do I do this?
My mdeia library is now on an external hardware with the path in the preferences set to:
J:\iTunes music
Thanks, Rob

You have been very helpful over the past two days and thanks for your time.
I was looking for a sync function within itunes originally and did not think about going to Apple TV to do this.
How do I disengage my shared library - is this through iTunes, or through the Apple TV?
Rob

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