Why are some songs in gray?

I currently have the latest Apple TV and I listen to my music streaming it from my itunes in my iMac on my network at home. For some reason some of the songs in some albums will be displayed in gray randomly. I'm able to play the song when it's shaded but it will then skip all the songs shaded in that album and skip to the next non-shaded song. It doesn't happen all the time but it's annoying when it does. I've been a mac user since the 90's so yes I've done all the usual restarting mac, apple tv, updating software. It has been happening for a few months now and to this day it still does it. My iMac is connected to my Airport Extremeac with an ethernet cable and not wifi. My Apple TV is connected to my Airport Extreme wirelessly.

Not the cause of this issue, but you will probably save your self some headaches if you also can connect your ATV via ethernet.
There are a bunch of things that could cause this. Here are the top ones that come to mind.
     1. The song was purchased with a different AppleId/account than the ATV was activated with.
     2. ATV has not been able to connect to the internet for a while to verify its DRM activation status.
     3. ATV can not connect to the iTunes device that is sharing the content.
     4. If the song is not from the iTunes store and ATV does not think it can play the file type. This usually only happens with video files.
     5. The songs are on a shared external hard drive that has gone to sleep.
     6. iTunes is not actually running on the computer severing the content.
Are you playing these though the music icon on ATV or going under computers?

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