No speaker menu in iTunes for streaming music through Airport Express

I have the following setup:
I connect through the Internet using a Zyxel 660-R61 router acting as DHCP server. Next in line is an Airport Extreme running in bridge mode taking care of wireless Internet access. I have then added an Airport Express in client mode to the wireless network in order to stream music to my stereo. Although both Airports look "happy" (green lights) no speaker menu shows up in iTunes. I have done all types of resets etc. I suspect the problem lies in the ADSL router somehow. Anybody out there with ideas?

I'm sure that you have done this already, but if not...
Open the AirPort Admin Utility, located in /Applications/Utilities.
Click Music in the toolbar, and select the Enable AirTunes checkbox.
Enter an iTunes speaker name and password. This is the name displayed in the pop-up menu at the bottom of the iTunes window.

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Wlan router restarts when streaming music to Airport express

Hi guys,
Yesterday I received my brand new Airport express which I plan to use for streaming music from iTunes to my Stereo. Unpacking and installing the lovely looking AE was like x-mas eve and birthday all in one .
After the installation where I set up the AE to join my wireless network. My wlan is a WEP 64 bit encrypted one, I had some problems adding it to the network with the wizard of the AE tool, but this worked just fine after using the manual set-up procedure instead where I chose WEP 40 bit in the AE tool. I also upgraded AE firmware as a part of this process.
So, the AE pops up nicely in iTunes, and I started streaming music to them, and it worked perfectly... for 10 seconds. Then the music stopped, the play-bar in iTunes stopped, and I also noticed that my laptop (Acer laptop running Windows Vista) lost the internet connection.
After some investigations where I switched off volume adjustment on remote speakers in iTunes and reseting and re-installing the AE, I noticed that the reasons for the problems seems to my wlan router re-booted whenever I started streaming music to the AE. My wlan router is a Zyxel Prestige 660, and it has worked flawlessly for the last two years. The AE is connected to the network, it gets an IP address, and it shows up just fine in the IP list on the router, that is before it restarts... And once the router re-starts the logs are gone, so it's not possible to see what's happening in that end.
Has anyone ever experienced the same? What can the root cause be? Changing the wlan encryption is unfortunately not an option since the router is pre-programmed from my ISP. I'm considering changing my modem, but I'm reluctant to spending 150 bucks on a new modem if this may not resolve the issue.
Any comments or suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Part 2: The mystic restart of the router was solved through changing to a Thompson Speedtouch 780 (luckily my ISP sent me a new wlan router and I didn't even have to pay).
However, the problem with the music breaking up when streaming from iTunes to the AE remains; The stream is broken after just a few seconds, and it also seems to mess up other internet traffic on my laptop . I've tried with the AE in a number of different locations, even 1 meter away from my laptop - nothing works.
As it is now, the AE is useless. What a disappointment .

After iTunes update, cannot play through Airport Express

I've had this problem a few times.
You've updated iTunes and you can see your remote speaker(s) within the program, but when you attempt to stream to them, you'll get an error saying that there was a probelm connecting to your remote speakers. No amount of resetting or reconfiguring your Airports will fix it. Don't waste your time doing that.
A good check to show that your network \ airport is healthy, is if you have an iPod Touch you can stream right from there to your Airport Express. That will let you know that the problem lies somewhere on your computer.
You are most likely having this problem because of the Windows Firewall. A quick check is to disable your Windows Firewall, then launch iTunes and try to stream. If that works, you've found your problem. Reenable your firewall.
.....But wait. I checked my allowable programs, and iTunes.exe is allowed to pass? What gives? Well, the firewall is trying to make the console simple, and only lists the program as itunes.exe. Apparently, the firewall is looking at much more than just the process ID of itunes.exe. When the rule was set up, it likely also identified the allowable process by noting the time\date stamp or a hash of the file. During your upgrade, the filename stays the same, but the rest changes, and the windows firewall won't allow it to pass.
To fix this, delete the existing rule allowing itunes.exe to pass. Once that's done, you can recreate the rule using your new itunes.exe file. Now that it's allowing your new .exe to pass through the firewall, you can now play to your remote speakers again. Yeah, you don't HAVE to delete the old one, but it's a lot cleaner. If you don't delete the old, you won't know which is the "good" one if you ever have to troubleshoot at a later date.
I hope this helps. It drove me a touch nuts for a bit until I realized what was going on. Now it's part of my routine whenever I update iTunes.

Darryl Rehr wrote:
I have configured and re-configured my Airport Express, but I can't get it to receive music from iTunes.
iTunes does recognize presence of Airport Express (named "Stereo Cabinet").
However, when I select "Stereo Cabinet" in the pulldown menu, all I get is reduced volume output through my computer speakers... not through the stereo system hooked up the to the Airport Express.
I've had this problem for months... posted here some time ago, but got no response.
I am running 10.6.2 on an Intel Core duo Macbook laptop. This function used to work just fine, and I can't figure out why it no longer does. I think I had the same trouble under 10.5... but my attempts to figure it out were only sporadic (busy life, you know?).
Can anyone help?
DR
sorry if i ask the obvious but have you enabled airtunes like so ?

ITunes not playing/connecting through Airport Express

Whenever I try to play a track in iTunes wirelessly through my Airport express iTunes always returns the error: "An error occured while connecting to the remote speaker "AirPort Express" The network connection failed".
I can't work out what's wrong because the Airport light is green and connected to my router perfectly, there are no errors in the Airport utility and I can print wirelessly to the printer connected to the Airport using the Bonjour setup.
I have Windows 7 and the latest versions of all software and firmware installed. Turning off Windows firewall makes no difference so it can't be that. I have tried everything I can possibly think of and have gottem nowhere. Please help!

Darryl Rehr wrote:
I have configured and re-configured my Airport Express, but I can't get it to receive music from iTunes.
iTunes does recognize presence of Airport Express (named "Stereo Cabinet").
However, when I select "Stereo Cabinet" in the pulldown menu, all I get is reduced volume output through my computer speakers... not through the stereo system hooked up the to the Airport Express.
I've had this problem for months... posted here some time ago, but got no response.
I am running 10.6.2 on an Intel Core duo Macbook laptop. This function used to work just fine, and I can't figure out why it no longer does. I think I had the same trouble under 10.5... but my attempts to figure it out were only sporadic (busy life, you know?).
Can anyone help?
DR
sorry if i ask the obvious but have you enabled airtunes like so ?

Itunes freezes when streaming music to airport express and to loewe air speaker at the same time?

Hi,
(first post )
I was recently offered a Loewe Airspeaker. I already had an Airport Express connected to a hi-fi system.
The Airport Express + hi-fi is in the living-room and the Loewe Airspeaker is in our bedroom.
Both are connected to my network via wifi.
I was trying to stream music from my iMac to both the Airport Express and the Loewe Airspeaker.
When doing this, I am able to get the same tune on both devices, but iTunes systematically freezes
=>music continues to be streamed but interface on the iMac gets the endless multicolor wheel !
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the iTunes library and corresponding music are located on a Mac Mini configured as a media server.
The iMac connects to the mac mini via wifi (shared folder). Home network is organized via an Airport Extreme.
Both computers run Mac OS 10.7.2 Lion and are up to date.

Well, repying to my own post... Might have found the solution: I tried to do the same with a Macbook Pro 2010 using the very same setup. And it worked perfectly! No freeze, no nothing.
One explanation I see:
my iMac is dating back to May 2007, a Core 2 Duo 2,16Ghz with 2 Go of RAM.
So the computer's characteristics (or the Wifi component or the combination of all of this) might be not robust enough to allow streaming to those 2 devices...
Anyone's got anything to add?

Itunes 8.2.23 upgrade, now won't stream music via airport express

i (mistakenly) installed yesterday's upgrade to itunes and now when i stream music to my airport express it will play a couple of songs and then i won't get any sound. the song is still "playing" in itunes but it isn't being streamed to my digital receiver. if i pause the song and start it again i'll hear it but after a bit a new song will do the same thing.
i seem to remember having this problem after the last update but can't remember what i did to remedy it. i think i reverted back to the previous version but i'm hearing that i can't do that from this version.

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Stream music trough AirPort Express connected only to my stereo

I want to wirelessy stream the music I store in my Synology NAS to my old stereo. Doubt if AirPort Express can fulfill my needs considering that:
AirPort will be not directly connected to my wifi router, but only to my stereo. Referring to
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4587?viewlocale=en_US
Connecting to an existing Wi-Fi network, exclusively for iTunes music
AirPort Express need a AirPort wireless LAN already in place to work? The only wireless LAN in my home its the standard WIFI network and the wifi router its not Apple. My NAS is connected to this wifi router.
This thread describe my concern
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2715375
I just don't understand if this is a working solution, but my situation its the same: I can't connect AirPort Express station to my wifi router since they will be in two different rooms, and I haven't any other AirPort station.
- Also the same page state "Do not connect AirPort Express to the phono jack on your stereo". Can use the AUX port of my stereo?

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Hi,
Recently, I installed an Airport Express to stream my music from my iMac to the speakers in my office, at home.
Everything works good, but often the streaming just stops when I start typing something in the address bar of Safari.
In iTunes, this little icon gets yellow :
Both my iMac (from which the iTunes music is streamed) and my AE are wireless. Both are quite far from the TimeCapsule base station, but the signal is good for both (I download up to 50 Mbit/sec, so...).
When the music interrupts, I have to click "play" again and iTunes says "trying to connect to AiportExpress...." After a couple of seconds, the musics streams normally.
Sounds strange, no?
Thanks in advance for any support on this one!
M.

Wireless is shared bandwidth and if the stream is using a large chunk of the available bandwidth then it will have issues when you start using Safari.
Change over as much as possible to ethernet .. it is far more efficient and multiple computers can work at the same time.. the difficulty with wireless is that only one device can connect at a time.. so wireless works on a time slicing system.. fine for data.. really lousy for streams of audio or video.
If you cannot fix it with ethernet try looking at EOP (homeplug) adapters these are still better than wireless when they work.. however the only way to find out is to test them.. they behave differently in every setup.
I just saw your other thread..
The airport utility will show how fast the wireless link is.. to do this hover your mouse over the connection where it says good or average. etc.
You can see that mine show average but the RSSI is really low.. -85dBm is actually a really poor link.
If I use the old v5 utility I will discover that signal to noise is only separated by 3 or 4db.
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Is is possible to stream music from Safari to an airport express like you can in Itunes?

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Welcome to Apple Discussions
To stream audio from Safari through your Airport Express you'll need to purchase Airfoil. There is a demo version on the developer's site. I suggest trying it before purchasing. Also, I suggest reading the FAQ on the site.
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Issue streaming music to AirPort Express

Hey guys.
I seem to be having difficulty with the above. I've had my device for around a year and have never had any trouble with it.
Over the past week I've been trying to connect iTunes to the remote speakers and it simply freezes at "Connecting to AirPort Speakers".
At first I thought my firewall may have blocked it, but when disabling it the same result is received.
The strange thing is, I can still see and change settings on it using the config softrware with no issues at all.
The AirPort connects wirelessly to my core switch, and my PC is plugged into the switch via ethernet.
Nothing has changed in terms of software or hardware. so I'm a bit confused as to why it literally just "stopped working".
Anyone have any ideas? (Any flamer posts will just get removed :D)
Thanks,
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Update: this problem exists when just listening to music on iMac with iTues; no airport express or network involved. Something, somewhere in the software is causing this.

No speaker menu in iTunes for streaming music through Airport Express

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