Airport express vs apple tv for music streaming?

Greetings all:
I am thinking of getting something to hook to my home stereo for the purpose of streaming music wirelessly.
I see both the airport express and apple tv can be had for $75 refurbished.
I'm curious as to which would serve my needs better?
I know that both will stream music from my main system's itunes library.
However, I also know that the apple tv has a pandora app native to it. That's a big plus.
Whichever one I ended up with, I would control from my sofa using my ipad.
Without knowing anything else, I think I'm leaning toward the apple tv.... but I'm open to point/counter-point.
Thanks!
TM

I am assuming that you have an existing Wi-Fi network ... correct? If that is the case, then I would recommend the Apple TV over the Express for pretty much the same reasons you have already stated. In addition, the Apple TV can also access media via iCloud ... so if you are using that service you won't even need a Mac or PC as a iTunes host.

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