Airtunes plays two songs then goes silent

After playing two songs using airtunes the volume cuts out on both the computer and the remote speaker while itunes continues to play the songs albeit silently. To reinitiate the audio I have to select a new track.
The iMac I am streaming from uses airport to connect to multiple airport n enabled base stations that use the same name so that it picks the base station with the strongest signal strength. All of these base stations are networked together using gigabyte ethernet so the route to the particular airport express i'm streaming to varies.

Hi, I have the same problem since a few months. Note that this does not only affect airtunes devices. Also my default line-out goes silent. It happens completely random. Sometimes after 1 track sometimes after 20 tracks or anything in between.
Pausing and unpausing the currently (silent) playing track also makes it audible again.
Strangly if a silent track is playing all the next songs in queue play silent. Unless you skip or pause the song...
odd.

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