ITunes 11.1 Airplay Problem: Icon goes orange

I'm using iTunes 11.1 with three Airport Express base stations for Airplay. Every hour or so the blue airplay icon in iTunes goes orange and the music stops streaming to the Airport Express. Reselecting it doesn't work, but if I power down the Express and then power it up again everything seems to work ok. An hour or so later the problem will reoccur.
This is very irritating. Any ideas?

I have this problem too, did you manage to sort it out?

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