Play Music and Apple TV at the same time?

Is it possible to stream a movie to your TV via Apple TV as well as play music independently on your computer without interrupting the movie?
- I bought my Apple TV last week and connected Home Sharing on my windows computer, TV and my iPhone, iPad and iPod
- But when we were testing out playing a movie through the TV, I also tried to play a song from my iTunes on my computer, but it stopped the movie on the TV.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Independant Devices wrote:
Is it possible to stream a movie to your TV via Apple TV as well as play music independently on your computer without interrupting the movie?
Yes.
Where are you starting the movie from, you need to start it on the Apple TV and start the music on your computer. You can't initiate multiple streams from the computer but multiple devices can initiate multiple streams when started from the device.
We have a number of Apple TV's and often watch and listen to different content on each at the same time.

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