Itunes can't see my Airport Express speakers after I close my laptop

So this is a weird issue- and I haven't been able to find a prior discussion on this topic. Apologize in advance if I asking something that is already well documented.
but I've seen the problem on two separate laptops now: if I stream my itunes through my airport express speakers and then subsequently close my laptop (presumably putting it into hibernate or some other energy saving mode), itunes cannot see the airport speakers upon reopening the laptop. I have to reset Itunes - and then it will see these speakers every time. Same thing happens when I reset my airport express- sometimes I have to reconfig the router through the airport utility. As soon as a press update and the router resets... then itunes cannot see the airport express speakers.
Not a huge issue- just requires a lot of rebooting to fix. Buts its frustrating.. my macbook speakers are lame. I wish itunes has some sort of speaker refresh button that would reset the speaker settings.
My wife says it is known itunes bug.. anyone know anything on this?
Thanks in advance everyone!!

1. Did you try just to switch back to the cpu-speaker and the directly back to the express?
2. Did you do a firmware update of your express? Just open the express-server-program to do so.

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