Disappearing act
Came home last night to find that the AppleTV had disappeared from the iTunes Devices list. Happy-fun web search suggests that this is a “known” problem, possibly with the Take 2 software, possibly with iTunes 7.6.1.
Suggested remedy was to power off the AppleTV and then reconnect, but that didn’t work. Rebooting the Windows PC running iTunes did. I suspect killing off the iTunes-related services probably would’ve done as well and will give that a try if/when it happens again.
Still, it’s not great. Part of the appeal of the AppleTV/iTunes combo is that it’ll happily stream anything it hasn’t synced yet — or for which there isn’t room locally — but if it loses track of iTunes, well, that isn’t going to work so well. Here’s hoping Apple fix it.
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