Set up airport express with home theater

I have a new LCD TV & home audio set up and want to add airport express w/air tunes to that. Problem is that I have the TV audio (from cable box) connected to aux audio port on my receiver and there is no other audio port to plug cable into. I now have the optical audio cable but that port doesn't exist on my receiver so I can't plug AX directly into my receiver without disconnecting TV audio. Does my receiver just not have enough audio ports? Is there some other way to connect everything together? There are other audio ports available on the TV itself and the cable box but I'm not sure how I would connect everything. Help please?!

That device appears to have a single AUX audio input.
Unfortunately it does not appear that you can connect both the TV and AirPort Express (AX) to this device without some type of switch box.

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airport expresses. All was well till I tried to
plug
in a hard drive then the base station needed to be
reset. Now I can't get it to recognize the aiport
expresses. I have to do a factory reset on the
express to even get it to recognize it in the
Airport
Utility. I follow the instructions to have it
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light
on the express and then I can't locate it while
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(a) Make iTunes robust enough to live off the grid for a while even if there is a network available (or at least know the difference between a on-grid and off-grid network).
(b) Make the iOS devices aware of off-grid networks and revert to Cell for data connections, or better yet support multiple wireless connections simultaneously.
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