iTunes serves as the gateway for syncing or streaming media files to the Apple TV. You can sync content from only one computer at a time, and you can’t add content manually—by dragging it from your iTunes library to the Apple TV icon on iTunes’ Source list. Should you choose to sync with a different computer, all the data on the Apple TV will be removed and replaced with the data from that new computer. When you’ve established this syncing relationship between your computer and the Apple TV, you’ll encounter an interface within iTunes very much like the one you see when you attach a 5G iPod to your computer. The Apple TV pane within iTunes holds six tabs—Summary, Movies, TV Shows, Music, Podcasts, and Photos. Within these tabs you decide which content you want to sync to the Apple TV. Content is prioritized so movies sync first. Then, if space remains, TV shows, music, podcasts, and, finally, photos.
To help manage your media files, iTunes provides shortcuts for choosing subsets of them. For example, you can choose to sync no movies and just TV shows, or request that only the most recent one, three, five, or ten unwatched movies or TV shows sync with the device. In such a scenario, once the movie or show has played through, it’s bumped off the list and deleted from the Apple TV, and then iTunes adds the next unwatched video. Because the Apple TV and iTunes are in constant communication, there’s no need to press a sync button to make this happen. As long as iTunes is open, your network is functioning, and a computer isn’t streaming something to the Apple TV, iTunes will update the device’s content.
Syncing can be slow, particularly over a wireless 802.11b or 802.11g network. If you have a lot of content that you want to sync to the Apple TV, it makes sense to start the sync before you go to bed. When you wake the next morning, the job will be done. Or, because syncing over Ethernet is faster than wireless, make that first connection a wired one.
To help manage your media files, iTunes provides shortcuts for choosing subsets of them. For example, you can choose to sync no movies and just TV shows, or request that only the most recent one, three, five, or ten unwatched movies or TV shows sync with the device. In such a scenario, once the movie or show has played through, it’s bumped off the list and deleted from the Apple TV, and then iTunes adds the next unwatched video. Because the Apple TV and iTunes are in constant communication, there’s no need to press a sync button to make this happen. As long as iTunes is open, your network is functioning, and a computer isn’t streaming something to the Apple TV, iTunes will update the device’s content.
Syncing can be slow, particularly over a wireless 802.11b or 802.11g network. If you have a lot of content that you want to sync to the Apple TV, it makes sense to start the sync before you go to bed. When you wake the next morning, the job will be done. Or, because syncing over Ethernet is faster than wireless, make that first connection a wired one.
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