Airtunes no longer detects my Airport Express

I have been using Airport express with Airtunes for years and suddenly without warning neither of my speakers are detected by iTunes. What is going on? I've tried soft and hard resets, but the website instructions are not helpful. They don't tell you what to do if you don't get the results displayed on their site.
It is very frustrating and time consuming!

I'm in the same boat. I can still get on the web with it, but neither airport utility or itunes can see it. disappointing to say the least.

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