Q: iTunes will not sync with Gen 1 Apple TV now.
Writing in hopes someone may have a workaround:
Now, my iTunes will not sync with my Gen 1 Apple TV. A few months ago, it worked fine. Now it doesn't. Apple Tech Support was nice, but not helpful. Had me disconnect and restart everything, but their statement is, "We do not support Gen 1 Apple TV."
I understand not supporting an old product. I do NOT understand Apple changing iTunes so it wrecks an old product that we have bought, as customers. To me that's obscene.
Specifically, when I start iTunes, there appears, briefly, at the top center, where the Apple logo is, the sentence, "Connecting to (my name) Apple TV." Then the sentence disappears, but on the left, where it lists devices, the Apple TV no longer appears. It lists only my iPhone.
When I go to iTunes->Preferences->Apple TV, it shows in the window, my Apple TV, by name, and shows it is "syncing."
So, Apple has made it impossible to change pictures or playlists, add songs, or make any other changes on the Apple TV. I can burn CD's on my MacBook Pro, and make changes there in iTunes, but changes don't appear on the Apple TV.
Anyone have a workaround?
VIN,Apple TV
Posted on Aug 14, 2016 1:45 PM
NEWS! Problem solved!
I searched, and found this:
iTunes 12 for Mac: Play items in your iTunes library using Apple TV (1st generation)
Now, these instructions are not correct, because there is no "Apple TV button near the top left of the iTunes window."
But it seems like at least Apple didn't forget about the Gen 1 Apple TV completely.
In searching "near the top left . . ." of the iTunes screen, I did note an icon of an iPhone. I clicked on it, and what do you know, there is a drop down list of devices, and my named Apple TV is on it, and I clicked on that, and wow, there it is, the same steps to sync that used to be there. And they work!
I was able to successfully sync the Apple TV, and my new music and playlists are now on the Apple TV!
(I'm still mad, however, at Apple for deleting the easy and convenient way to add obscure CD album covers to iTunes, and replacing that process with NOTHING. That still really stinks, imho. I now have a bunch of album covers that look like two music notes and no way to put the album covers into iTunes.)
Anyway, one CAN still sync iTunes with Gen 1 Apple TV, at least as of 14 August 2016.
Posted on Aug 14, 2016 5:23 PM