Use apple tv as MAIN storage for music

I want to use the apple tv to store all my mp3's but i don't want the mp3 files left on my macbook (main computer). I tried to add some files by syncing with apple tv after i had erased some off my macbook and it erased them off my apple tv as well. How do I get around this?

You don't, really. AppleTV was never intended to be a permanent storage solution for your media, as has been discussed at length in these forums.
If you really insist on doing this I suggest you get a large external drive, back up all your music, sync it to AppleTV then never sync again because anything that is not in your iTunes library will be removed from AppleTV.

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