Stuttering music

Just installed update 5.1 and music started stuttering. Interestingly it stutters terribly if access my computer iTunes library. If I go to the computer and stream music over AirPlay, no stuttering.
Could it be a firewall or port problem? Can't seem to understand why I can send music to Apple TV without problems but when apple TV is asking for music from the computer it stutters constantly.
iTunes is running on a win7 x64 machine that is quite fast.
All systems are up to date.

On a Windows PC, actually, NO. Windows invokes an inordinate amount of buffering for music files, causing the "stutter" effect (hey, it's a feature not a bug!). Now, on a Mac, this is avoided by the way Macintosh OS X manages application memory space (very UNIX-like, since OS X rides on top of BSD UNIX).
Adding RAM may help somewhat (if your not already maxed out), but will not totally cure this particular ill.
Buy a Mac.
russell

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Recently whenever I play any song from my iTunes library from my computer, every 5-10 seconds the song skips/stutters, which becomes very annoying over the course of the song. I don't understand why this is happening. Is there anything I can do to correct this?
Thanks

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Hi, I received a never used Creative Zen M Series 30 GB Mp3 player from my friend, and I'm having a few problems with it.
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hello again,
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Yes same here.
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The fact that the drive isn't that full may suggest a network issue as overnight it would hopefully have synced as much as it could. How are you connected?
Stuttering music sounds more like it was playing using streaming and cutting out.
I too have more than will fit on a 40GB machine.
The one thing you should sync is photos you need on there - streaming can only deliver the same ones which is odd.
Just in case it needs clarification:
- under Sources the AppleTV option means to play what is synced to the device
- the other entries are streaming iTunes libraries
This isn't always obvious!
You can select individual movies/TV shows to sync and I assume you've disabled that. For music it's all, nothing or selected playlists - it could be that your music library is too big and it's confusing AppleTV trying to work out what to sync and what to leave out - I don't know how this works, but when my music library grew, every time it resyncs there are warnings some things are left off.
Try creating a playlist say 'AppleTV playlist' and drag and drop music into that and just sync that leaving out things you'd not listen to often and be content to stream.
AC

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"Sonos" your Airplay
Hi,
This observation elicited a Eureka moment. After months of problems with our airplay I had worked through almost every suggestion on the net to little or no avail.
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I saw some discussions that seemed somewhat like what I have experienced, but thought I'd post this separately just in case.
I have three AppleTV units. Two are wired, and one uses WiFi. The two wired ones work just fine, but using AirPlay for music was terrible for the WiFi one. It would play about a half second of music, then stop, then another half second, and so on, so it seemed to be stuttering and was unusable for that. It was strange that video and its associated audio worked just fine for me!
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If you aren't using a dual-band router, I don't know if there is any way to take advantage of what I see in my configuration, but I thought I'd share the information in case it does provide some options.

Airplay uses ethernet / ip broadcast. This only works on the same ip subnet. A router typically connects different subnets. Hence being in one subnet you won't get the broadcast packets and won't see the advertised "airplay" services of the apple TV. You should make both "sides" (in your diagram) of the router into one subnet. That might involve connecting everyting to an ethernet switch.

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