Airtunes still dropping out!

I am still having trouble with my airtunes frequently dropping the signal to my speakers. When I pause the music and then start it again, it works. I have the most recent version of itunes. My computer is also very close to my airport express. What could be the problem?
Thanks in advance for your help!

I had a similar experience. I don't know if this will help, but here's the background and what worked for me.
Airtunes had been working perfectly for a couple of years. Then, recently, I began experiencing the dropouts. It's interesting to note that iTunes would mostly pause during the drops.
First I thought it might be the main PC and/or its network set up. But I verified that my laptop had the same problem.
So I began concentrating on the AirPort Express. I pinged it continuously. No packet loss. I moved it withing 2 meters of the access point. No effect. Changed channels. Enabled the robust interference mode. I updated its firmware, reset it and restored it to factory defaults. Nothing worked.
Then I set up iTunes to play on both my main system and my Airtunes speakers. I guess this is a capability added recently. Now it works perfectly.
So my theory is there is a bug in iTunes concerning the multiple speakers option.
In my research I ran across mentions of this and that it didn't work, but it did for me. For what it's worth.
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