ITunes 11 airplay stops in middle of songs, why?

We have iTunes 11 on a MacBook Air with Lion (10.7.5, all current updates). Occasionally, in the middle of a song playing over Airplay, iTunes stops streaming the song. As best we can tell it appears to be random. If we go back to a song that it previously stopped on, but it doesn't stop again. Thought it may be Energy Savings settings, but it's set for 3 hours before sleeping, and 2 hours to turn off screen. Now "Put the had disk to sleep..." is set, and perhaps this is it. But according to my wife, this never happened under iTunes 10.x, it has just started with iTunes 11.
I'll try the "hard disk sleep" setting and report back, but any other ideas?

I am having the same problem, with a similar model of iMac (early 2007). I play my music through my sound system using my Apple TV 2 and airplay. It has worked perfectly until I updated the Apple TV, Mountain Lion, and thus, iTunes, on Nov. 30th. Now, the music just stops after 30-45 minutes, in mid-song, just as Fox8 described. So far, I have:  rebooted the computer, reset the Apple TV to factory settings, rebooted the Apple Extreme router, restored the computer to 2:00am on Nov. 30th (itunes would not run at all, saying that the music library was created with a newer version), re-updated Mountain Lion and itunes... everything I can think of. Still, the music stops. I have eliminated the Apple TV (streams Netflix and iphoto just fine), and the router (ditto) The only thing that leaves is either a Mountain Lion problem or an itunes problem.  I hope Apple gets this resolved; if anyone has found a solution, please post it here.
I am going to try to stream via Airport Express and see if that works, using an iDevice as a remote. Apple delayed the release of itunes 11 so it would be right, but it appears it's not quite there. We need a 11.01 patch. Quickly, please. Or at least a way to downgrade to the version that did indeed "just work."

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