Apple TV 2.1 won't show in my iTunes Devices List

Yes it is frustrating and is working.....for now. I have also found that Netbarrier X4 had placed the IP address of the ATV in the stop list without asking me.

Same problem....ATV works great but no longer communicating with Apple Express. I had ATV for about one year and this happens regularly when an upgrade comes out...phone calls to Apple, read discussions..it seems nothing works...I gues the answer is avoid Apple upgrade..totally.

So 2 days ago, my iTunes suddenly gets the multiple speaker drop down back... wait, could it be - YES! it's there I can select my Apple TV as AirTunes speakers. I do a quick test and sure enough it works.

Still no AppleTV in the device list but I was busy so didn't get to test anything else.

Today I thought for the **** of it, I will just go and see if I can connect my Apple TV to iTunes. So I go into the menu and select add shared library - walk back next door and BANG there it is large as life back in the devices list waiting to be set up. I enter the code and away we go. I've done a few tests and I'm able to stream, movies and music.

The most bizarre thing is I have made no system changes at all since it stopped working then weeks later out of nowhere it starts working again. ***?

I have done everything but stand on my head. It just doesn't seem fixable thru sensible means. We need a software fix from apple. How bout an update that has nothing to do with an ipod or iphone for once?????!

I am having the same issue as many of you. Airport Express, AppleTV 160gb, iMac 2.66, OSX 10.5.4. Everything worked well, performed software updates, and now AppleTV does not show in device list, but is listed in the external speakers list.

My dilemma is that I've purchased content ON the AppleTV since the last sync, so I don't want to reconnect and risk wiping out content.

Can anyone help? I still haven't seen a straightforward answer here.

Are there any positive solutions yet? I've got iTunes 8 running, and my AppleTV can't be found in the devices. I've tried unchecking/checking the Look for AppleTV option. I just did a factory restore of the box back to 1.0. And I'm not wiping my MacBook Pro for this. Thanks.

I've not had a connection between Express and ATV for 6 months. Nothing works. Now, after a recent Apple "Upgrade" I've lost connection between my Computer and TeraByte external hard drive...which had been working very well. I always look forward to an Upgrade which will "fix" things but it's getting worse!

I had a very similar problem (twice actually under iTunes 7.7 and after 'upgrade' to iTunes 8. I resolved it using this post from another site.



However, i got around this by running apples bonjour conformance test tool which can be downloaded on the bonjour developers site ( http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/ConformanceTest-123.zip) with the suggested command in the readme:


./BonjourConformanceTest -I en0 -L p -M hu

(entered at the Terminal window of the directory you put the conformance test tool)

after scanning, suddenly the services i wanted to connect showed up in BB... and after upgrading iTunes to 7.6 even there.

I'd really like to know whats exactly the problem.. and how to get rid of it/ enabling the share discovery via ethernet by default.

Credit goes to original poster gitano.