Synch AND stream photos?

So, Apple TV sounded like just what I was looking for- the wireless ability to view photos from my collection on my TV, as well as play music via iTunes on my home system.
No issues with the music, but after two weeks of frustration I am ready to give up on the photo aspect. This is what I would like to do-
-Syncing (and then keeping) the very best of my image library on Apple TV for use as a screensaver, or to present slideshows for guests, at any time.
-Being able to stream from the remainder of my photo library if desired, without losing the sync'd content.
-I do not want to be locked into using iPhoto!
Can this be done, or am I just beating my head against the wall?
Yes, I have browsed through the discussions, and have seen winston's "explanations" on syncing vs streaming, and libraries,, but they have done nothing to clear up my issues with Apple TV.
Quite frankly, I am ready to toss this frustrating piece of crap back in the box and return it.
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I have been able to setup an AppleTV that streams music and photos from one account (the "main" account), and then in another user, link the AppleTV to sync with a different iTunes and iPhoto libraries. It does involve 2 user accounts on the computer (at least in my scenario).
If starting from a fresh AppleTV, link the AppleTV to the second user account (not the "main" one where you have your complete libraries). In iTunes, tell it to sync and copy your select pictures (and if you want some music/movies on the AppleTV, copy those to that user's libraries as well). Then (if memory serves correct), you want to go to Settings -> Computers -> Add Shared (or Stream?) and click add. Then in your "main" account, you should see the AppleTV in the Devices list in iTunes, click it and enter the code, and then tell iTunes to stream photos from iPhoto (or Aperture or a folder) and tell it to stream/share your music.
After you set up the stream/shared computer, you will see "Shared Pictures" and "Shared Music" in the bottom of the lists (2.x and 3.x). If you only have 1 shared source, it will load it automatically; if not, it will ask which source you want.

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Anyone know if it is possible to Sync itunes music and stream the photos from the same computer?? Or even better sync some pictures and then have the option to stream more pictures from that computer as needed?
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a brody,
Per knowledge base article http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305139, photos must be synced and cannot be streamed.
Regards,
Chris

Is it possible to synch and stream from the same iTunes library?

We have two Powerbooks in the house, each one contains our own individual iTunes library. Powerbook 1 is synched to ATV. Powerbook 2 just streams to ATV. Because each Powerbook can obviously be moved to different parts of the house, we want to be able to stream each iTunes library to ATV (in the living room) AND play the same library out of the Powerbook in a different room.
When using our iPhone Remote to select the iTunes library on Powerbook 2 (the 'streamer'), an "Airplay" section appears at the bottom of the "Settings" screen which allows the output device to be selected as the Powerbook and/or ATV - meaning that the same music can be played through both devices in different parts of the house - great!
However, the same "Airplay" section does not appear at the bottom of the "Settings" screen when the iTunes library on Powerbook 1 (the 'syncher') is selected - and the music just plays through the Powerbook 1, not ATV - not great!
Is this somehow because it's not possible to stream the Powerbook 1 library to ATV because it has been synched? It feels as though there must be a simple way around it?
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you can sync multiple macs to one ATV, one at a time. use the Finder and set up your first itunes library. make a folder and give it a name. then drag that itunes library file into that folder. launch itunes and make another library synced to the same ATV. Make a folder give it a name. The only issue is remembering to drag out the proper library, don't change the library name because it is not a one to one relationship.
I never tried multiple libraries at the same time to one ATV but I am doing one Mac to two ATVs, each with their own library and synced.
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Hi FNM
I don't think you can have the app on the external drive but maybe you can have the "data". The app will likely need to reside in the "applications" and serve to the data.....
Here is a recent discussion that may be helpful, though it is a very messy thread.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3012995?start=30&tstart=0
Sorry I can't help youmore, hopefully one of the more more senior community guys here will pick this up for you.
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JGG
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How to setup Sync and Stream for Different Photo Libraries?

I've read through most posts, but still can't get ATV to both sync and stream photos.
On my MBP I have my iTune library with music, movies, etc. I also have several iPhoto libraries for each year ('05, '06 '07, etc). I initially set up ATV to sync to my MBP iTune Library and my iPhoto '07 iPhoto library and everything went fine. Even if ATV->source->my music->photos, I get the photos streamed fine.
The question is how do I stream the other iPhoto libraries? If I go into MBP-> iTunes->Devices->ATV->Photos and deselect sync, I can't select any other Photo Albums and lose the ones I just sync'ed. If I try ATV->source->my itune lib->connect to new iTunes->sync #, but then when I go to MBP-> iTunes->devices->ATV there is no window to insert the # to stream.
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Can anyone give me a step-by-step on how to do this? I must be missing a step somewhere. Thx

Welcome to the  Discussion Forums.
It's debatable whether you could ever sync and stream photos from the same library. tv v 1.1 gave that impression because it showed photos in a synced source and a streamed source when the source was the same library. However as they were effectively the same photos it was never really clear what was happening.
Now that synced and streamed content is in the same menu under v 2.0 it really doesn't matter. If your itunes library is synced to your tv then you must sync your photos, if your itunes library is stream only then you must stream your photos.
Moving on, because this doesn't actually address your problem, which is that you want to sync or stream multiple iphoto libraries from the same itunes library. Well you can't, although you have a couple of workarounds.
If you must have multiple libraries, then you could open additional user accounts, stream the itunes libraries in those user accounts and allocate a single library to iphoto under each user account. This is quite messy if you have more than a couple of libraries and will not work with more than 5 libraries, which you may well have if you are working by years.
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