Home Sharing Broken.

I'm running a home share on a Mac Mini running 10.7.1 and iTunes 11. I use an airport express to bridge my Linksys router. My iTunes library is fairly large, but I would hope that wouldn't be an issue.
I don't have any trouble seeing the home share, but it rarely works properly.
None of my iOS devices can reliably connect to and access the home share. A number of things happen:
1) the iOS devices hangs up trying to connect to the home share.
2) the iOS devices hangs up trying to read a playlist
3) the iOS device shows me a playlist, but then doesn't play any audio — the player just skips over songs like they don't exist.
4) When it does work, audio is about is skip prone as a bad CD.
The funny thing is, when I first installed the Airport Express it worked without a hitch and I was elated. In the weeks since, performance has degraded to this point and I'm not sure what recourse to take.
I've restarted the router, restarted home sharing on all the devices, restarted iTunes on the Mac Mini.
To my knowledge, there are no alternatives out there, either. If there are, I'd be willing to hear about them. Though it seems silly to go pay for something that Apple is providing for free, this frustration has gone beyond "free" into severe opportunity costs for me. It is just as silly to me to continue to try to use something that is obviously so flawed. I wonder how Apple continues to sell Apple TVs and such with so many people having this issue — it's false advertising!

FYI: https://discussions.apple.com/message/25915348#25915348
Thank you Ian. You've inadvertently answered another question, which is how do I send music and videos to Airport Expresses and Apple TVs. That's the Remote app? Rather than the music and video apps.
My library is actually 67GB with 6300 songs. Not massive I don't think. And it's only going to grow.
It looks like I am going the same way as you: Mac mini server, with Airport Expresses for music and Apple TVs for videos, so actually the music app would just be a stop-gap while the rest of the hardware came and the Remote app solved all my problems. That said, now that I know Home Sharing is so flakey I'm reluctant to make the investment.
(However, the only way to get mobile music around the house with a bluetooth speaker is with the music app.)
I'm playing round with Plex at the moment. Will play around with Plex and docking stations/bluetooth speakers for music, and Plex and Chromecasts for video. Then maybe a cheap Windows PC for a media server.
Thanks for your reply Ian.
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