Sync AppleTV with multiple accounts' iTunes library on the SAME Mac

I was wondering if this was supported in the new 3.0 release. I found an archived thread from 2007 which stated this was not supported but wondering if anybody was successfully doing this, or has a work around for getting both my and my wife's iTunes libraries (on the same Mac) to sync to the AppleTV.
Thanks!

no, you can still only sync from 1 itunes library.

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How do I set up AppleTV to share play iTunes libraries from the same Mac

I have a Mac Pro (2008), running Lion (10.7.3), Airport Extreme running 7.6.1 and a 2nd gen AppleTV running 4.2.1.
On the Mac Pro, I have 3 user accounts (User1, User2 and User3), each with their own iTunes libraries. I have enabled Home Sharing on each of the user accounts/iTunes with a same AppleID and enabled Home Sharing on the AppleTV with the same ID.
On the AppleTV, under Computers, I see the 3 'computers', but only 1 of them will play content, depending on the order that I start iTunes on the Mac Pro.
When I log in to the 3 users and start iTunes in each, only the first user I start will play. For example, if I start iTunes with User2, User1 and User3, then only User2 content will play.
The AppleTV reports, 'Cannot connect to User1 library' and to make sure that iTunes is running.
I have a seperate Mac Air, and when I setup Home Sharing on it, the AppleTV has no problem playing content from it and from the Mac Pro.
The odd thing is that when I first set it up, it worked as I would expect. Content from each library would play and could freely switch between them. But after playing a movie from User1, none of the other User's content will now play without shutting down iTunes in the 3 accounts and starting them back up in a different order. I have restarted the AppleTV, the Router and the Mac Pro and zapped PRAM.
Is there a way to be able to play from all 3 accounts/libraries on the Mac Pro?
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Dont really have an answer for you, I've seen this reported before, it works fine for me and I can't see any settings that might make any difference.

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My iTunes library on my PC has more music on it than the iPod - when I sync, it does nor sync with the whole of the library - why? - help?

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First let me give you the premise that I am working under... I am hoping to have multiple receive threads to make sure that I am pulling data off the port as quickly as possible and am hoping to do this efficiently through using asynchronous functions.
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Receive client running...
Packet 1 - 02-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF
Packet 2 - 03-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF
Packet 3 - 01-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF
Packet 4 - 01-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF
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Hello Robbie,
>>Can anyone help me figure out why I am getting the right number of continuations from ReceiveAsync with the wrong packets?
Please have a try to use only one thread to read these byte stream as:
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In your original code, there are multi threads seems to result a repeat read behavior.
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Sync AppleTV with multiple accounts' iTunes library on the SAME Mac

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