ITunes 11 hangs up on iMac looking for airport express.

Any help is appreciated, struggling with Apple issues. I have 3 airport express units set up to act as individual zones for a multi-channel amplifier in my home. The main iTunes library is housed both on my iMac running OSX Snow Leopard as well as an external network hard drive. With the latest upgrade to iTunes 11 i have noticed while directly using iTunes and through my iPad using Remote that iTunes gets lost and stops working. The screen will show that the program is trying to locate the airport express zone and you cannot close the dialogue box or close iTunes. When i view the airport utility it shows all of the airport express units functioning properly. The only way out is to manually shut down the computer and re-start. Is this an iTunes issue or possible setup issue with the airport express units. The 3 devices are in close proximity to each other feeding the amp but, functioned properly prior to the new iTunes release. Not as familiar with Apple networking and appreciate any ideas to remedy. Nothing worse than rocking out to a great tune only to have it stop mid-song with the only solution to shut down the iMac.

The same goes for iTunes 11.2.1 on 10.9.3. And it's not the first time, either. In fact, I've lost count of the number of times a software update has broken Airplay. It's immensely frustrating. If past experience is anything to go by, they'll fix it in a few months' time but until then there's nothing we can do about it. Unless someone can tell me I'm wrong?

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