Not authorized to play content?

Using Apple TV 2.3.1 I can not stream a lot of my music to Apple TV. This is content I purchased from iTunes. Many songs will not stream and I receive the error "Not authorized to play on Apple TV"? This is highly frustrating? If the content is synced to Apple TV, I believe it will play but I would prefer not to sync the music. I have tried to de-authorize the computer and then re-authorize it to no avail. This should be a no-brainer? Any ideas why this happens???

muvanni wrote:
Also, I am sort of missing the point of the hard drive on the ATV. Why would anyone sync anything? Isn't "easier" to just stream from a computer? If I wanted to just sync music from that PC to ATV and then wanted to stream everything else after that, how would I do that?
Thank you in advance for your help..
people with only a laptop might not find it usefull to have to turn on the laptop to watch a movie on the appletv.
once content is sycned, you don't need to have your itunes library open to be able to play it.

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