Playing iTunes Through Airport Express (PC)

Question

I am looking for advice to have success playing iTunes through my stereo speakers. The environment is PC and I have an Airport base station attached to my modem. The airport express is plugged in downstairs and I have the connection to the receiver to play through the stereo. My question is for the Express, am I setting up a new base station, or changing the config of the curent one? If so, what do I need to change on the configuration of the base station? I have reset it a number of times, but it continues to flash amber. It is an unsecured network----thanks for any assistance

Answer 1

I’ve been using Airport Express 4.1.01 (AX) for several years for the sole purpose of wirelessly playing iTunes thru stereo system which is in a different part of the house from my Dynalink Modem-Router.
I have recently bought a new Toshiba L/T with XP Prof OS and when I attempted to install AX I got an error message “A later version of iTunes is already installed on this machine. Installation cannot continue”. Current iTunes is V7. When I clicked OK on the error message I got the AX Introduction Window with the 3 icons (Internet, Music and Printer) appeared and over the top of the AX window another error message. “An error occurred while trying to use the wireless internet system” and the Next button on the AX window was dimmed. Once I clicked OK on error window Next button was available and clicking it I chose the “Set up a new AX” option and next the “Create a new wireless net work network” option.
No Airport Express base station was found despite rescanning and also being in the same room barely 2 metres from the AX and in the same position where everything had worker OK on my previous L/T. Tired of rescanning I had no option but to cancel. However, AX seems to be installed.
At this stage I followed Tesserax’s advice to thiels 17 (June 9th) pressed the reset button, connected my L/T to AX with an Ethernet cable and opened the AX Admin Utility. This opened Base Station Chooser. There are NO Tabs for either AirPort or Music Settings. Instead there are 3 Menu items – File, Base Station and Help as well as two buttons – Other and Rescan. I don’t have the information for the information asked by pressing Other.
Maybe the AirPort and Music Tabs are on a later AX Version? When I attempted to update AX after downloading Airport V5.0.14 I was got the message “This update requires Airport V 5.0 to be installed. I can’t find V 5.0 to download if that is in fact the answer to my problems.
Toshiba L/T   Windows XP Pro