Airport network music play drops out/in on Yosemite

I've been playing music throughout my house using 2 Airport Express on the same Airport network for years. Occasionally music would drop out but would recover by itself, and since it didn't occur very often, it was okay. However after upgrading to Yosemite and then upgrading to the latest version, music now drops out 1-3 per min on the same network with the same Airport Express devices - So frequently that it was virtually unlistenable. I was not expecting services to get worse with the OS upgrade. Is there a fix or workaround for this, or do I need to wait until the next "upgrade"? Thanks.

I'm having a similar problem.
Since my upgrade to Yosemite connecting to Airplay audio is much harder, have to try up to four times on occasion (error message: cannot connect to Airplay). It also disconnects in between songs on Itunes and in between videos on Youtube or different files elsewhere. Strangely when I get it working, it does not often drop out in the middle of a file.
I know I have quite some interference at my place of other routers (I bought the AP for this reasons), but I did not have this problem at all with Mavericks. As my WiFi in general also seems less stable, I definitely think this is related to the dreaded Yosemite WiFi issue. Glad to hear any suggestions, otherwise I hope 10.10.2 will fix this.
Gear:
Macbook Pro Mid 2012 // i7 2.9ghz // 8GB

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