ITunes Radio drops out

My iTunes often cuts out (abrupt interruptions in music stream), especially the radio portion. I just updated from a PowerBook G4 to a Macbook. i use a linysys cable modem and an airport extreme base station and connect to my stereo through airport express. i have seen others talk about the drop out problem. does anyone have a good solution?

Radio streams can drop out for a myriad of reasons, only a few of which are under your control. For example, the server sending out the stream is overloaded.
On your end of things you can try a couple different settings in QuickTime and in iTunes.
First, in QuickTime, make sure the Streaming speed setting matches or is one step SLOWER than the actual connection speed offered by your ISP. Restart iTunes and see how it performs.
In addition, iTunes has one setting that can affect streaming performance. My best recommendation is try each of the settings separately and see which works best for your system. The setting is in Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Steaming Buffer Size

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Path:                  /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
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Version:               12.1.2 (12.1.2.27)
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