Itunes / Multiple speakers / airport Express

When I select multiple speakes in Itunes i get an error saying "an unknown error occurred (-3256)." I can select the remote speakers by them self and they work fine but when I select all speakers or multiple speakers I get the error message. what can I do?

Only firewall I have is what is standard on my mac, and if that is what your talking about, I do not know how you do that UDP traffic thing.

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