Airport Express Airplay

I've connected my Airport Express directly to a speaker but would prefer it to be connected to a pair of speakers as a stereo is. How can I do this?

The speakers are on seperate sides of the room, so presumably a Y cable wouldn't reach both. I'd prefer to plug it straight into the stereo to be honest (it does have aux option but the cable doesn't seem to work when plugged into it). The stereo is a Bang & Olufsen Beosound Ouverture.

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Airport express, airplay, speakers, kill core audio

hi,
i have regular computer speakers plugged into my airport express router, and play music via airplay from my iphone and macbook pro.
i usually select airplay on my macbook pro by holding alt and clicking the volume icon in the status bar, and selecting my airport express.
sometimes this doesn't work, and my selection won't stick. and instead of restarting and interrupting my wifi each time, i found from a number of google search results and forum discussions to use these codes in terminal:
sudo killall coreaudiod
and
sudo kill `ps -ax | grep 'coreaudiod' | grep 'sbin' |awk '{print $1}'`
to restart the audio driver. they seemed to work, but now a day later, i can connect to the airport, but no audio is coming out of the speakers... neither from my laptop nor iphone.
i have tried rebooting the computer, and unplugging the router for 30s... and tested the speakers to be working when hard wired. still no luck on the airport express airplay, which did work before i tried the codes.
any thoughts?
thanks,

Same here?
We have two of the new Mac Minis, one Airport Express and 4 iPhones in the house - and we can use Airplay from both Mac´s to the Airport Express hooked up to the stereo - works fine!
And we can se the Airplaybutton on the iPhones and the name of the Airport Express - but we don´t get any sound when we push the button and it turns blue?
We have rebooted alle the devices, made restores, reconnected - but no sound?

Airport Express Airplay no longer compatible with iTunes 11.3

Hi,
Everything was working perfectly until this morning when I updated to itunes 11.3 (54) 64 -bit, now I open my itunes and try to select my airplay speakers connected to an Airport Express and the message appears "The Airplay device is not longer compatible with this version of iTunes" I have a Mac Book Pro with OS X 10.9.4 installed.
Any help will be much appreciated.

My iPhone, iPod, iPad and any other device sends the music perfectly through, just my Mac with iTunes is the one having the issue.

Can someone recommend a powerline adapter that works w/ Airport Express/AirPlay?

I recently purchased the Netgear Powerline 500 Nano PassThru Dual Port (XAVB5602-100NAS) and it works fine when I connect it to another computer in my house, but when I connect it to my 1st Gen airport express to use AirPlay through my stereo receiver the connection fails and it disconnects my internet connection over my entire network. Any suggestions? I'm trying to "hardwire" my network to my stereo because i'm getting frequent disruptions running it purely via wifi.

Let's start over, please, working from the cable modem outward.
It sounds like Express A is working fine right now with the cable modem Ethernet cable connected to the WAN port on the Express A. Test to confirm that the wireless is working on this Express.
Plug one powerline adapter into an AC socket near the location of Express A. Connect an Ethernet cable from the LAN port on Express A to the Ethernet port on the powerline adapter.
Plug the other powerline adapter into an AC socket near the location where B will be located.
Test to make sure that the Ethernet powerline adapters are working correctly.
To do this, temporarily turn off the wireless on a laptop and connect the laptop directly to the powerline adapter near the location of Express B using an Ethernet cable.
See if you can get an Internet connection on the laptop this way. If you can, then that confirms that both powerline adapters are functioning correctly. If you cannot get an Internet connection this way, more troubleshooting will be needed before we can proceed with the installation of Express B.
Post back on your progress. We'll need to know what operating system you arre using on your Mac or PC to be able to provide instructions to configure Express B.
If you have a Mac, but do not know what operating system it is running, click the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen. Click About This Mac, then look for the OS X Version number and post back with that info.

ITunes 11.0.5 Update and Airport Express AirPlay Issue

After updating my iTunes to 11.0.5 I receive the following error whenever I try to connect to either of my two 1st Gen AirPort Express units: "An error occurred while connecting to the AirPlay device [Airport Express 1 or 2]. The network connection timed out."
Everything was working fine before updating two days ago.
Connection is as follows:
1x AirPort Extreme 802.11n (2nd Gen) "BaseStation" - v7.6.4
1x AirPort Express 802.11n (1st Gen) "Basement" - v7.6.4 - Connected to BaseStation via Ethernet - AirPlay Enabled
1x AirPort Express 802.11n (1st Gen) "Living Room" - v7.6.4 - Connected to BaseStation via WiFi - AirPlay Enabled
1x MacMini OSX10.6.8 - iTunes 11.0.5 (5) - Connected to BaseStation via Ethernet
1x MacBook Pro OSX10.7.5 - iTunes 11.0.5 (5) - Connected to BaseStation via WiFi
iTunes on both the MacMini and MacBook Pro can see the AirPort Express units in the speakers drop down, however when trying to send music to one or both of the units I receive the time out error.
I've tried all the usuall fixes like restarting/reseting the AirPort devices, restarting the Macs, etc. But I'm still recieving this error.
Please help. Thank you.

try to go to this link to download http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
However, many people say they only got 11.0.5 but everytime i click the link it's 11.1
give it a try

HT4628 Airport express airplay function

Just hooked up brand new today Airport Express to function as airplay device to second room stereo. Have AppleTV for main stero/TV room and Airport Extreme as main wifi both are new (less than a month old). iTunes will play from fairly new (6mos) and completely up to date OS Lion Airbook to AppleTV fine & it "sees Express" on airplay button in iTunes, but does not show up in Multiple Speakers or do airplay.
Don

Try temporarily connecting a pair of stereo headphones to the audio port on the AirPort Express Base Station (AX). Do you still just get static? If so, then it may be possible that the AX's internal audio circuitry or audio port itself has malfunctioned. If not, then it could be the cable or your audio receiver/speakers that may be the issue.

Problems with Airport Express & Airplay

Hi Guys, I'm having a lot of problems using my Airport Express as a bridge, and Airplay.
I have a wireless network set up with various repeaters through our (large) house, and wanted to set the Airport Express to extend the wireless range into the kitchen, and to work as an Airplay port for the stereo which is next door.
The main network is a cable modem into a wireless router, which is then repeated with 85M PLC Adapters throughout the house.
Had alot of trouble setting up the express unit - have re-set it to default settings numerous times. Managed to get it set up to repeat the signal and act as an airplay once, but the performance was very poor - i.e. sound dropping out, losing connection. It also wouldn't connect using iphone or ipod, again even when it had 4 bars wi fi reception.
I then tried setting it up purely to join the existing network, not to repeat it. and act as an airplay port; and it connected, said it worked, but then I couldn't play any music through it, and it went back to flashing orange.
The Airport Express is in the same room where I'm typing this and has 5 bars of wi-fi signal strength.
I've tried the few things I know - anyone got any bright ideas?
Makro

Network
Plug the AE next to the PLC and connect it to the Ethernet port of the PLC. Configure the AE to operate in bridge mode. If your PLC doesn't offer an Ethernet port, use one like the Netgear XAVN2001. If it's already taken, you will need a 4 port switch. You will also need a long 3.5mm audio cable if the amp is not in the proximity of the PLC, available from Amazon for under $5. Finally, create a separate wireless network on the AE.
Client
Connect the client to the AE's wireless network, not your existing network. The client in this case is an iPxd or other computer with iTunes or Airplay/similar PC.
The above basic configuration works flawlessly in my experience. If the Client is to distant from the AE's wireless, you can, as a second step, connect it to your existing network, but be forewarned that in this scenario dropouts abound and the AE frequently disappears from view.

TS1398 Airport Express - Airplay issue

While trying to connect to my airport expess from my computer I got an unknown error (-15000) does anyone know how to solve?

Try temporarily connecting a pair of stereo headphones to the audio port on the AirPort Express Base Station (AX). Do you still just get static? If so, then it may be possible that the AX's internal audio circuitry or audio port itself has malfunctioned. If not, then it could be the cable or your audio receiver/speakers that may be the issue.

AirPort Express AirPlay over network with extender

I'm running a wireless network which includes a Netgear signal extender. With the extender, I have two wireless networks visable:
network name (primary wireless router) & network name_EXT (extended wireless signal)
I purchased the AE for AirPlay and have it hard-wired (RJ-45) into my router. When our devices are connected to the primary wireless network the AirPlay function works perfectly, but when the devices (iPad and iPhones) connect to the extended network (network name_EXT), the AirPlay doesn't work.
The AE is connected by an RJ-45 cable and is on the same network... it seems to me the wireless network shouldn't matter.
Any suggestions to get this to work on the _EXT network?
Thanks.
T

It seems as though, from my experimentation, that Airplay connects to another device through the MAC address and *not* the IP address. There are benefits of using both types of connections (which I won't get into), but the biggest problem with using the MAC address in this case is the that, on most networks (practically everything except for those using WDS), the MAC address of the device in question gets masked as the same MAC address of the router it is connected to. This is bad because when the computer looks for a specific device, (again assuming that Airplay checks for MAC addresses) it will only see the router's MAC address instead of real device's MAC address.
To clarify, say you have two networks, A and B, where A is where the IP addresses are assigned from, usually the router that is either connected to the modem or is the modem itself. Each has its own SSID, A and B respectively. Wireless device WA, which has Airplay, is connected to network A. Wireless device WB is connected to network B and is trying to wirelessly connect to WA. As I mentioned previously, most networks won't be set up with WDS (which preserves the MAC addresses). As WB looks for WA to send the music over Airplay, it won't be able to fully connect because it is trying to send it to the wrong MAC address (of router A) despite it seeing the device. I suspect WB sees WA because it can see WA's IP address.
Now, I haven't been able to confirm this theory with any Apple representative because, after all, they are mostly not knowledgeable in the intricacies of the devices networking. I'm sure if they forwarded the question to an Apple engineer, we would be able to get a concise answer as to why we are having this issue...
I can only hope they will fix this issue before we are forced to buy more hardware to support WDS
But again, this is just my theory, I have no evidence except for knowing that my network is all on the same subnet but the MAC addresses are transformed... it may have something to do with the DD-WRT set-up I have.

Bad sound quality streaming audio via Airport Express

I am streaming audio from iPhone to Apple Airport Express (Airplay). Via optical cable the signal goes to Cambridge DacMagic and then to Stereo Amplifier. Sound is not good, there's some kind of 'chattering'.
When using AirFoil instead of Airplay sound is much better, but then gaps appear from time to time.
Please tell me, what can be the reason for it? And how to solve?
Thanks in advance.

Mr. Tessarex,
I use the Airport Exreme as router and Airport Express (2011, direct plug-in model)
Some facts I learned from the Airport-app on my iPhone:
Wireless clients from Airport Extreme:
iPhone 150Mb/s (802.11 a/n) connection: excellent
Acer laptop 144Mb/s (802.11 b/g/n) connection: excellent
The Airport Express:
240Mb/s (802.11 a/n) connection: good
I bought the song "Love Me Like You Do" (Ellie Goulding) via iTunes.
As you adviced me I tried to play it via iTunes, and streamed it from iPhone to Airport Express.
Especially listening to the bombastic part of the song (from 3:14). Sound was tolerable.
Playing the song from iPhone via Spotify: sound is awfull, totally overloaded.
Playing the song from laptop via Spotify (Airfoil): sound is good.
Playing the song from laptop via iTunes (Airplay): sound is good.
The song never plays 'Excellent' in any way. I Think the song was recorded 'over the top'.
Even when you listen to it via headphone, it sounds very messy, "on the edge...".
I am happy that most songs sound good. So far playing Spotify via laptop and Airfoil gives the best results.
According to the figures from the Airport-app, it seems I will never get optimal bitrate with my current system.
As amplifier I use the Luxman L505u, usually connected tot Airport Express via Cambridge Dacmagic,
but during testing via normal analog cable (without Dacmagic). So far I think the Dagmagic is not the problem.
What do you think, after reading my story?
Thanks in advance
Peter

ITunes 11.1 won't connect to AirPort Express

Hello,
I just updated iTunes to ver. 11.1.0.126 from the previous version of 11.0.5. Prior to this, everything worked fine, no issues ever with connecting to my airport express from iTunes. Now that I've updated to 11.1 I get the following message when selecting my AirPort express for streaming:
"An error occurred while connecting to the AirPlay Device 'CasaWalck AirPort Express'. The network connection failed"
The AirPort express is a bit older... an 802.11g, running the latest version firmware 6.3 and it's still attatching to my AT&T Uverse wireless home network just fine. Went into the router admin to verify all is well, and it is.
At the end of the day, it seems to be the iTunes update that caused all of this. I should also add that with the iTunes update, I also installed iCoud (which I didn't have installed before) and the latest version of Quicktime.
I'm running
- Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 on an HP tower.
- AT&T Uverse wireles modem w/WPA2-PSK (AES) encryption
- Netgear WNA1100 USB WiFi modem
- Apple AirPort Express 802.11g w/firmware 6.3
Any help is greatly appreciated. I really want to get my streaming to work again!
John

Okay, I'm logging this for anyone who might be experiencing the same issue. I kept poking around my system until I found the solution myself.
In researching this issue, I kept coming across folks who found an issue involving their Mac systems. Since I have a Windows 7 platform that didn't do anything for me. Initially I started suspecting an IPv6 compatability issue between iTunes 11.1 and my old airport express. Found nothing fruitful there (including this so you don't waste your time chasing that down). The other common theme coming up with others was their firewall. I came across on thread in particular where if they disabled thier firewall, they got iTunes to connect to their airport express/airplay device again. However, they were stuck with a choice between this working and having firewall protection. I personally just couldn't operate without a firewall. So... I kept poking around and literally stumbled on the solution.
Windows 7:
Start > Control Panel > Windows Firewall > Allow a Program or Feature Through Windows Firewall > Change Settings:
- click to highlight iTunes from the list
- click Remove
- click Allow Another Program...
- Select iTunes from the list and click Add
- Click OK so save your settings.
- Test your connection AirPlay/AirPort Express in iTunes. It should work
- Restart your machine and test to make sure it still works after a reboot. Mine did.
From what I can gather, the previous installation of iTunes logged some sort of profile or entry into the Windows firewall. Once iTunes upated to 11.1, it seems whatever worked for the 11.0.5 install was no longer compatable. By remiving and reinstalling this entry in the firewall, whatever was needed was refreshed and all is well with the world again.
For all the times this community has helped me out, I only hope I can return the favor.
John

Airport express without modem

I am traveling and want to use my airport express airplay with a Bose Wave radio in a location with limited wireless. Do I need a wireless network to use airplay to my imac?

Hello Low77. Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Can you set up a wireless network using Airport Express without a modem?
Yes. By default, the AirPort Express Base Station (AX) will create a stand-alone wireless network which you can connect up to 10 wireless clients for file or printer sharing.
Can I just plug in the ethernet cable on my desk to Airport Express for it to work?
You do not need to plug it into an Ethernet cable for it to work. However, if you require network or Internet access, the Ethernet cable needs to be connected to a network or have Internet access.

My old Airport Express wants to work but can't

So I've read a lot about Airport Express PSUs dying, but that isn't my issue here.
I bought this Express about 3 years ago. It worked great for the first 18 months as far as I can recall, we'd hold parties with Airplay streaming and everyone was really impressed.
I moved house and had no need for it so I lent it to my sister, who was in a wirless party house at the time. They could never get it to interact with their Netgear router properly so it just sat on the shelf for another 18 months. I've now moved into my sister's house and brought my Airport Extreme with me. We were hoping to live the Airport Express Airplay dream again and after some tikering and a hard rest I got the Airport up and running again and Airplay worked fine.
That was about 3 weeks ago.
2 weeks ago Airplay stopped working. It was cutting out and then it just gave up altogethor. Activating Airplay would cause the Airport Express to immediately go amber. With some tinkering I managed to have ti recover, I just had to keep Airplay running, manually go into the Airport Utility and convince the Airport to reset. By then the track tht ws playing might be about, oh, 3 minutes in. When the track changed to the next song, pfft, amber again. I maanged to recreate these situations several times.
But now, we're lucky if the thing works at all. I'm here in my bedroom on one bar of reception and my housemate Andrew has got, count em, three antennas coming out of his PCI wirless card for a single bar of reception, this is because the Airport Extreme is at the otehr end of the house. Every now and then the Airport Express splutters into action and we get something resembling a reliable connection. Unpluggin it and plugging it back in seems to do the trick. But it'll die again, solid amber.
So yeah, in summary an older Airport Express that had been reliable for years has deteriorated in 3 weeks. I don't know what to do, i can't afford a new one. Any suggestions are welcome, any requests for additional information/elaboration on parties will be answered.

Hello love4pugs...Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Most likely, you just didn't leave enough time to do a complete power recycle of your network components so that your Motorola modem can "recognize" the new device (AirPort Express) connected to it.
Try the following...
Modem/Router Power ReCycling
- Power-off the Cable modem, AirPort Router, & computer(s). (Wait at least 30 minutes. If possible, leave the modem off overnight.)
- Power-on the Cable modem; Wait at least 30 minutes.
- Power-on the AirPort Router; Wait at least 5 minutes.
- Power-on the computer(s)

Itunes 10 and Airplay no longer works with my Airport Express

As soon as I installed the update, my Airport Express (802.11g I think) has stopped working. You can JUST hear a faint audio signal if you turn the amp up full. Any ideas gratefully received.

I noticed this too and think it's by design. The new master volume slider in the AirPlay window is set at the highest volume in your list of speakers. Drag either the master volume or your external speaker slider to max, and you should get normal volumes out of your Airport Express speakers.
Unfortunately, the volume slider on the iTunes window seems to be the master volume now, rather than just the volume for the computer. So if you mute the computer using that slider, you mute all speakers. To mute just the computer, you have to do it though the AirPlay speaker list now. Unless I'm missing a preference setting somewhere... thought there used to be something in iTunes or Airport Utility that let you toggle this behavior, but I don't see anything now...

HT201335 I want to watch an iTunes rental video on my MacBook Pro but stream the sound to my Airport Express linked speakers. However re Airplay icon doesn't show up in iTunes when playing the rental video. Is there a way around that?

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Welcome to the Apple Community.
With or without an Apple TV you can't send video to one device and audio to another using AirPlay.

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