Airport and Airplay Cutting Out

I have an Airport Extreme as the main router for my network and an Airport Express in another room used to play iTunes from my MacBook or iPhone5 through my home stereo using AirPlay
Playback from both the MacBook and iPhone5 cut out all the time. This happens even when they are only a few inches from the Express. I've tried shutting down all apps, turning off blue-tooth, turning off the MacBook and anthing else that I thought might be competing with the signal.
Any help would be appreciated.

Should I plug in another Airport Express next to the ATV2, and will that strengthen the wireless signal from the first Express
If you add an AirPort in the family room, it will not "extend" or strengthen the wireless signal from the Express in the middle of the house, so no real reason to consider this if you are trying to use wireless only.
Rather than locate the current Express mid way between the Time Capsule and family room (which would normally be a good location), you might experiment a bit at 2/3 or 3/4 the distance to see if that helps.
Apple's "extend" setup works like the hub and spokes of a wheel. Your Time Capsule is the "hub" and each Express resides at the end of a "spoke". You can have multiple Express devices on the network, but each one communicates directly to the "hub", not to another Express at the end of another "spoke".
The best solution....in terms of performance....would be to run an Ethernet cable from the Time Capsule to the family room and configure another AirPort at that location to "Create a wireless network".
If you cannot run the Ethernet cable, a pair of Ethernet power line adapters might be able to send an encoded Ethernet signal over the existing AC power lines in your home. But power line products are a bit unpredictable, so you would want to make sure that you understand the store's return policy if you want to try the adapters.

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