Airtunes Speakers Issue

Hi all, I'm new to Mac only investing in my first a couple of weeks ago so sorry if this is basic.
When I bought the mac I also bought an Airport Express and then recently I bought a time capsule which replace the airport express as the router. I decided to use Airport Express downstairs for Air Tunes. I plugged it in after a hard reset, followed the tutorial to connect it to my network renamed it living room speakers which appeared in i-tunes, so far so good. When I try to play music from i-tunes I get an error message saying no speakers can be found. I've checked in i-tunes preferences and 'search for remote speakers' is checked. I don't think I'm too far away, the light on airport express is green and it's visible in the airport utilities with the time capsule.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thank you all.

You're not alone - see other threads such as this one:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1949393&start=30&tstart=0

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