ITunes no longer sees remote speakers

I went away for a day, came back, and found that iTunes could no longer see my remote speakers on my Airport Express. I've been using this setup for years without a problem, so I haven't the faintest clue as to why it decided not to work now. I searched the forums and saw that I'm not the first to have this problem, but I found no solutions. Does anyone have any ideas?
I've turned everything off and unplugged it, waited several minutes and turned it all on again (starting with the modem), and I've tried everything else I've read on these boards so far and at the Apple Support FAQ. I'm at my wit's end. It's maddening to have something that was working so well for so long just stop working for no apparent reason whatsoever.

Exact same problem here. I started a similar thread back in Sep after airtunes worked for about 13 months. It's archived now since no one had a solution.
"Airtunes missing; no Music tab in Airport Admin Utility - Help!
Posted: Sep 2, 2006 9:01 PM
Hi. Tried to play music via airtunes to AX connected to stereo, but no speaker selections in iTunes! Been working for the past year. Went to airport admin utility (4.2) for the AEBS and when configuring it showed the Music tab for about a second then it went away. I can't select Music to setup airtunes! Where's the tab? "
Run the airport admin utility for for base station and see if the "Music" tab is still there. For some reason, when my airtunes problem started (no speaker selection in itunes) I noticed that when a I ran the airport utility the Music tab shows for a second or so until the AEBS name shows and then the tab goes away. All of the other functions of the AX works fine (green lite).
One theory is that the line out portion of the AX fails over time. Not sure, but I've reinstalled the latest SW for the AEBS, AX, itunes, etc. and I think it may be AX hardware related.
I still have Applecare with my powerbook and since I use the AX with it, it's covered. Apple is sending me a new AX so I'll try it and report back if the new AX has airtunes working again.
About the flashing yellow lite after factory reset. Like Hon. says run the utility since it's been reset to "just out of the box". When I reset mine yesterday, I couldn't find the AX in the utility running it from my PowerMac (AEBS connected via ethernet) even after multiple rescans. I went to my powerbook and found the AX as a separate network (under the airport signal arcs at the top). It had the same IP address as the AEBS. Selecting the AX network and then running the airport assistant allowed me to set it up correctly to join my current network from the AEBS. I hope that helps.

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