Is the Original AppleTV (First Gen) compatible with iTunes 11

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I am afraid to update my Mac to iTunes 11 since I still use an original AppleTV (the old one with the hard drive) on one of my televisions. Does anyone know if the original AppleTV is compatible with iTunes 11?

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I ended up testing this myself.

Syncing content works
Restoring the device works

I haven't exhaustively tested everything possible, but I did write up what I have tested in more detail on my blog.

iTunes 11 appears to work fine with first generation AppleTV

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What I would do is:

Have only 1 library
Make sure that iTunes is configured to keep all your media organized (and point your single iTunes Library to your preferred disk)
When adding files to your iTunes library hold down Option/Alt to let iTunes know that it shouldn't copy the file to where your library is

This way all your data will be organized by iTunes except for the large files that should belong on your largest external disk in the first place.

Cheers...

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The easist way would be to copy the files in "C:\Users\thomas\Music\iTunes" to the same folder in your new user account. This should link everything back to the external drive. The files are:

.iTunes Preferences.plist
iTunes Library Extras.itdb
iTunes Library Genius.itdb
iTunes Library.itl
iTunes Music Library.xml

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