Can't access my wireless drive

I just upgraded my macbook air to Yosemite and got a new airport extreme.  I've got a hard drive with my music files attached to the extreme and have been trying to use that to play music off of in itunes (so accessing the music in my library wirelessly).  The system works most of the time, but occasionally my computer will be unable to access the music drive.  If I play a song, I'll get a "could not find the original file" error and then if I go to the finder, under shared, instead of the name of my extreme I just see "all", if I click on that, I can see the shared drive but if I try to open it in the finder I get an "error code 0."  Sometimes the this clears up on its own, other times, I have to restart or unplug and plug back in the drive.  It's not a drive problem; the drive works fine when plugged directly into my computer.
At least once, and I don't remember how I figured this out, it appeared that the computer was looking for my old airport extreme rather than the new one (the old one is not plugged in.  Maybe its ghost lingers?)
Thanks for any ideas...

If the Airport Extreme is plugged into a pure modem then it must be in router mode.. by default it will have IP 10.0.1.1
If the Airport is plugged into a modem router it should be in bridge mode and will likely have IP like 192.168.x.x (although 10.x.x.x is also possible).
You will know which is which because the LAN and WAN IP is the same in bridge. Or it will show just LAN.. in router mode it must show both WAN and LAN IP which are different.
If the Airport is bridged.. let me suggest you try this setup.. it is alternative to bridge.. a bit tricky to setup but might help you get it working albeit you need to understand the problem is Yosemite.
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Yes, you use the IPv4 address. .exactly as I showed.
Type in SMB://10.0.1.1 (that is the default IP address.. please type yours in if different).

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