My home sharing stopped working last night after finishing a movie.

I had just finished watching a movie and had planned to watch a second one when my power began flickering. My apple TV then couldn't connect to the iTunes store so I restarted my apple TV and the only things that came us were computer and settings. I thought to myself that my cable/internet must be out. But that's OK because I've downloaded all my purchases from iTunes onto my computer and I'd simply stream the content from my computer. It didn't work. I was unable to watch any content through my apple TV. Yet, I could watch content on my iPod and my computer, but I didn't want to sit in my cramped study. Is there a setting I need to change so that apple TV can stream from my computer?

Addendum: I've tried restarting my PC, my iPhone. I've tried switching Home Sharing on and off.
In the playlists, songs, artists, etc. it simply says "No Music".

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I have yet to see any suggestion that actually works other than reverting to previous versions of fwr / iTunes - which is a pain / joke to do.
There are a *ton* of posts about this:
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