Slow Syncing, New Files Not Streaming

[uva25]

My Apple TV seems to have been syncing for hours. In the meantime, i've added some tv shows to my itunes. When I try to play them on the ATV, they don't show up. Is this because they won't show up until the sync is over?

Regarding the sync, I keep taking more and more away from what I want to sync but I don't see the available space changing? It would change during the sync in the past but now it appears to be frozen? Is anyone else seeing this?

[zathras]

I don't know why your syncing is taking a long time but I do know if you want shows to appear immediately after adding them you have to click the sync button first...

[uva25]

I don't know why your syncing is taking a long time but I do know if you want shows to appear immediately after adding them you have to click the sync button first...
I'll assume the lack of sync speed is partially due to running Handbrake at the same time. Are you saying even to STREAM i have to hit sync as well? Thanks. This is what appears to be happening but I'm not sure why I would have to sync to allow a new song or show to stream.

[mizzman36]

I have the same issue with not seeing newly added files via streaming. Here is what I added in a different post:

I have my iMac set to sync to my Apple TV running version 2.0.

I only 'sync' the photos from the iMac to the ATV.

'My TV Shows' lists all the TV Shows I have on the iMac, so obviously they are being 'streamed' to the ATV, which is cool. I assume what happens when the ATV boots is it reads the iTunes XML for the machine it is 'synced' to, and populates the appropriate listings.

Here are the problems I have experienced around this though:

1) If I add a new TV show, or episode, to the iMac, it does NOT appear in ATV without performing a sync at iTunes on the iMac. I have waited up to 30 minutes to see if it would auto sync, and it never happened. I assume this has happened as ATV has read the iTunes xml once, and doesn't read it again unless a sync is forced from the 'synced' iTunes.

2) After watching new episode on the ATV, the blue dot disappears next to the episode, but when I move up the menu structure to the list of shows, the show still shows as having a new episode, even though I just watched it. Again, a resync is required at the iMac to sort it out.

3) Related to point 2, when I watch a show on the ATV, the iMac still displays the show as unwatched, even though it has been. Obviously a sync from iTunes fixes it.

Shouldn't the iMac and ATV periodically sync with one another, or do I have to perform random manual syncs throughout the day? Seems a bit silly.

[uva25]

I have the same issue with not seeing newly added files via streaming. Here is what I added in a different post:

I have my iMac set to sync to my Apple TV running version 2.0.

I only 'sync' the photos from the iMac to the ATV.

'My TV Shows' lists all the TV Shows I have on the iMac, so obviously they are being 'streamed' to the ATV, which is cool. I assume what happens when the ATV boots is it reads the iTunes XML for the machine it is 'synced' to, and populates the appropriate listings.

Here are the problems I have experienced around this though:

1) If I add a new TV show, or episode, to the iMac, it does NOT appear in ATV without performing a sync at iTunes on the iMac. I have waited up to 30 minutes to see if it would auto sync, and it never happened. I assume this has happened as ATV has read the iTunes xml once, and doesn't read it again unless a sync is forced from the 'synced' iTunes.

2) After watching new episode on the ATV, the blue dot disappears next to the episode, but when I move up the menu structure to the list of shows, the show still shows as having a new episode, even though I just watched it. Again, a resync is required at the iMac to sort it out.

3) Related to point 2, when I watch a show on the ATV, the iMac still displays the show as unwatched, even though it has been. Obviously a sync from iTunes fixes it.

Shouldn't the iMac and ATV periodically sync with one another, or do I have to perform random manual syncs throughout the day? Seems a bit silly.

So it sounds like my new stuff not showing up is a product of the sync never finishing?

[mizzman36]

My experience so far is 'To STREAM I have to hit sync as well'.

Which I think in this scenario is utter crap. iTunes must be able to listen to change events occuring and trigger a 'sync' with the Apple TV ......