Skipping during multiple speakers

Ive installed the latest firmware for Airport basestation, Airport express, and the latest Itunes (6.04.2). When I play in "multiple speakers" mode my local pc skips, and remote plays fine. When I do this with my mac, it works fine on both local and romote, so I'm guessing this is a pc issue. Ive read post and installed the latest directx, and selected safe mode for quicktime. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Dell Dimension Windows XP Pro P4 Core Duo

Okay I've checked out your audio card. Your hardware supports it easily, but are you running XP SP2? That's a requirement. It doesn't say in your sig.
It also doesn't say in the specs whether it supports a multiple speaker mode (by this I'm guessing you mean a 5.1 or 7.1 wireless stereo?) but it's a low-mid range model from 2 years ago so I'm not so sure it does. Their specs page tells everything you would ever need to know except for the thing you actually need to know =P Unless I missed it.
You would probably be best to contact the company and ask if the card supports what you're trying to do. I always think it's best to establish hardware capability before going into the software side of things.

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The problem is when I play in the new "multiple speakers" mode my local PC skips, and remote signal plays fine.
If I select local by itself, my PC plays fine, or if I select remote by itself, it also plays fine. No other issues with Itunes, ever! Just in this mode. And also, when I use my mac (macmini), in "multiple speaker" mode it works fine on both local, local/remote, and remote, so I'm guessing this is just a PC issue.
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Ive read post and installed the latest directx, and selected safe mode for quicktime. But still nothing has resolved it.
Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks! -Chris

I have this issue as well with my PC.
Here is what i have ascertained. i have 3 airport expresses (let's call them A, B and C) and then my local pc:
- each speaker (A, B, C) individually works remotely.
- each works with "local pc" when 2 speakers are selected (A+local, B+local or C+local).
- one set of 2 together works okay, but not great (A+C).
- the other sets of 2 are terrible (B+C, A+B)
- forget about playing all three sets of speakers at the same time (ABC) - it doesn't even play for 15 seconds before breaking up.
Speaker A and C definitely have the clearest path to the router, so i may try to move the router close to A and B and see if C becomes a real problem or not... just trying to hone in on the issue - but regardless it seems like multiple sets of speakers overwhelm the network.
is more netowrk power the answer? or is it something more fundamental (i.e., today's wireless networks should handle the traffic).
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Hello ecolman,
The article linked below details a number of troubleshooting steps that may help restore functionality to the Remote app.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1741
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Model Name:          iMac (21.5 inch, late 2009)
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Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
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Number of Processors:          1
Total Number of Cores:          2
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Memory:          16 GB
Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
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HT5517 Is there a way to select multiple speakers from my ATV3?

I have ATV3, an iPad2, a Sony Vaio laptop and another audio system connected to my WiFi network via an Airport Express.
Via ATV I can only select one speaker / output at a time (i.e. EITHER Airport Express OR ATV). When I have a party in the house (for example) I'd like to be able to select both to play the same music.
I know you I can select multiple speakers if I fire up the laptop and run iTunes (I then actually use the "Remote" app on the iPad, select my music library as the source and I can select mulitple speakers) but it doesn't seem possible with just ATV. Why not? I can see both outputs on ATV, I just want the option to be able to select both.
If my wife takes the laptop with her somewhere, I can't listen to my music throughout the whole house.
Seems a pretty big oversight - surely it'd be dead easy for Apple to do?

I beleive multi speaker output is strictly a function of iTunes. ATV1 was the hobby or beta environment and was a mix of OSX 10.4 (iTunes) and their developement of iOS. The multi speaker out was not a part of the further or current developement of iOS.
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