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Q: syncing music to apple tv 1st gen stops after a few songs

I am trying to sync my music to Apple TV 1st gen but it takes forever and only copies a few songs.

Everything worked fine, but I added more music to my library and now I cannot sync.

Boths Apple TV and iTunes are up to date.

I have tried everything, reseting Apple TV to factory defaults. reconnecting to my library, everything was erased from my Apple TV and now it's empty of music and I caanot sync my library.

I tried to connect it by ethernet instead of wireless and same problem.

I disabled home sharing, and I disabled streming from another computer,  consolodated my library and still tha same problem.

IIf I select in iTunes to sync pictures and music, it synchronizes pictures first, but when it starts with music, it ahngs after a few songs and sometimes after the first song.

What else can I do.

Apple TV, Windows 8

Posted on Oct 3, 2014 6:14 PM

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Q: syncing music to apple tv 1st gen stops after a few songs

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  • by Rudegar,

    Rudegar Rudegar Oct 4, 2014 1:53 AM in response to dghaller
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    Oct 4, 2014 1:53 AM in response to dghaller

    try connecting computer and Apple TV by ethernet cable to see if it's a wifi stability issue

     

    and look into if your computer goes to sleep and as such disable the network connection breaking the ability for the Apple TV to access the shared iTunes lib

  • by dghaller,

    dghaller dghaller Oct 4, 2014 5:00 PM in response to Rudegar
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    Oct 4, 2014 5:00 PM in response to Rudegar

    Thank you for your reply.

    I already tried with an ethernet cable and same thing happens.

    What I found out is that switching to personalized sync insted of automatic sync, happens to sync some more songs.

    At this time I select only one play list and usually it synchronizes ok. After that one I add another play list and if there are less that 50 songs in the play list, than it syncs ok. Sometimes it stops syncing and then I change the setting, i.e. I select or deselect the sync videos option and then it starts syncing the rest of the play list. Only that way I can sync my songs, but it takes a lon long time.

     

    Could this a problem with buffers or timing?

  • by Dacidqc,

    Dacidqc Dacidqc Apr 21, 2015 4:17 AM in response to dghaller
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    Apr 21, 2015 4:17 AM in response to dghaller

    Hi, I have the same problem.  I have noticed that if I search in the library the song on wich the sync is stop, make it play, then it will work. But it takes forever! Any other workaround?

  • by graham.clarke,

    graham.clarke graham.clarke Oct 13, 2015 3:55 PM in response to Dacidqc
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    Oct 13, 2015 3:55 PM in response to Dacidqc

    I have found a solution!!!

     

    I am running the latest iTunes on Windows 7. I have reset my 1st Gen Apple TV to factory settings - but that didn't help.

    I am connected via ethernet.

    I have 9,000 songs to sync and it stopped every minute or so and had to be restarted.

     

    Start the sync and once the copy count starts moving, select Edit/Preferences and leave the preferences dialog open.

     

    That's all you need to do!

     

    Such a simple solution to lots of angst.

  • by Simon.ca,

    Simon.ca Simon.ca Dec 6, 2015 12:50 PM in response to graham.clarke
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    Dec 6, 2015 12:50 PM in response to graham.clarke

    Had the same problem, somehow, this solved it for me as well.

     

    Thanks for discovering and sharing this!

  • by Thet619,

    Thet619 Thet619 May 16, 2016 8:25 AM in response to graham.clarke
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    May 16, 2016 8:25 AM in response to graham.clarke

    Awesome advice. Worked perfectly afterwards, thank you very much.

  • by Alex 7777,

    Alex 7777 Alex 7777 Oct 5, 2016 4:40 AM in response to graham.clarke
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    Oct 5, 2016 4:40 AM in response to graham.clarke

    Thank you!   This worked!