Connecting airport speakers stop itunes

My home network consists of a Time Capsule and severeal airport express stations.
The Itunes library files are local on the Mac's. But the media files are located on an extrenal HD connected to the Time Capsule.
Every now and then (more and more often) the following happens:
Playing a music file using one of the the airport express stations for the output to stereo (multiple speakers in iTunes) the playback of a song will stop when it ends. iTunes will only resume to the next song after I remove the airport speakers from the multiple speaker list, and if I then re-check it again, all will work fine, UNTIL the end of the song. Then again, I have to remove the check, press play and place the ckeck again.
Strange??
Anybody have any idea what might be the problem? This happens on al Macs, not just one.
Jan

Any help?
Perhaps I was not clear in describing the problem.
I play itunes, output airplay in itunes to the airport express that is connected to the stereo. Whenever a song is at it's end.. playback will stall.
Deselectring and again selecting the airportspeakers in the itunes airplay will make it all going again. Until the song ends.
Very strange.
Jan

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