Airport express with itunes and ethernet

I have a question on the airport express and apologize if this is already answered elsewhere, I searched the forum and did not find an answer. 
I am using my time capsule as the basis of my wifi network at the house supplying service to my iMac, Macbook, and other wireless devices with no problems. I have three airport express devices.  The first is used to supply a USB drop to the printer.  A second to provide an ehternet drop for the DirectTV.  I recently purchased one of the new model airport express devices to run an airtunes cable to my stereo.
The airport express (old style) providing the ethernet drop to the DirectTV previously had been used to provide iTunes to the stereo, but I could not get it to do both ethernet bridge to DirectTV and the iTunes to the stereo.  That is why I purchased the new one (one to do each job).  Is it possible to have one of these devices provide both the ethernet drop for the TV box and the iTunes?  I would rather only have one device tied up behind the entertainment center (less clutter and free up the third device for other uses).
Thanks in advance,
Mike

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