ITunes won't connect to my Airport Express

I have four airport express used for airplay.  Recently they all stopped working from the PC.  I can stream music to them from iPad and iPhone.  They show up under multiple speakers but are not options to select.  Very frustrated!  Please help if you can!

The following commands seem to put things back in order after Airplay device can't be selected.  It seems somehow Cisco Anyconnect may re-enable IPV6 after it's run.
From terminal:
# networksetup -setv6off Ethernet
# networksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi
Then I created a script to constantly ensure that ipv6 is disabled, that way, when ending my Cisco VPN session, things go back in order within X seconds
termusername = string result when you open terminal and type "whoami"
keepv6off.sh:
#!/bin/bash
while true; do
  /Users/termusername/scripts/newnetworksetup -setv6off Wi-Fi
  sleep 45
done
newnetworksetup:
networksetup ${1}
chmod 755 keepv6off.sh
chmod 755 newnetworksetup.sh
Now exit /etc/sudoers from terminal to allow networksetup to be run without prompting for password every time.
# sudo visudo
termusername     ALL=NOPASSWD:   /Users/termusername/scripts/newnetworksetup
Now use "launchd" to automatically kick off this script when you log in:
cd /Users/termusername/Library/LaunchAgents
create com.termusername.keepv6offscript.plist text file in above directory as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
   <key>Label</key>
   <string>com.termusername.keepv6offscript</string>
   <key>Program</key>
   <string>/Users/termusername/scripts/keepv6off.sh</string>
   <key>RunAtLoad</key>
   <true/>
</dict>
</plist>
save it
now run
launchctl start com.termusername.keepv6offscript.plist
you should be able to run 'ps -ef |grep keepv6off' and see an entry for this process running at this point.  This script will ensure ipv6 is off every 45 seconds.

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