Airplay and Multiple Airport Express setup

New to the forums here so thanks for any help in advance. Airplay is working great on my iphone and ipad but to only one set of airport express at a time. My living room is a very long room, about 80 feet so I have an airport express at each end with speakers. On itunes on the phone I can play one set or with ipod on ipad I can also play one set of speakers but not both like on my computer. There is no multiple speaker option. I thought airplay could control multiple AE? Is this not an available feature yet? Both my AE have the latest firmware updates. Thanks again.

i have two airport express stations set up on my network with speaker attatched to both in different rooms ... When I stream from my macbook there is no problem selecting which speaker to stream to but when I stream from my ipad now that I have airplay it shows both sets of speakers and lists them both as airport express but will only play to the first one in the list even when I try to select the second one it is defaulting back to the first set and playing on that one ... I even downloaded Remote which will let me stream music from my home share library to both speakers or either one from my ipad but I want to use it with other services like hulu to stream the sound to the speakers in the bedroom not the living room. Any ideas??

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Set up a Wireless Distribution System (WDS)
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