Song "plays" in iTunes but only a moment of sound via Airtunes

I am using iTunes 8.0.2. I am using the airport express as airtunes v. 6.3. When I select my airtunes speakers in iTunes and play the song, I get a split second of audio and then complete silence. iTunes continues to play the song (you can see the tracker moving and the time ticking down. However, there is no more audio. My firewall is configured to allows iTunes. I never had this problem until recently. I have not changed any settings on my router.
Thanks for your help!

I have exactly the same problem for some time now. (since upgrading to iTunes 8). Installed all latest updates, have my airport exchanged, tried all things with firewall, ip v6 settings etc. but still no results.
Using a ping command (via terminal) to my airport I can see that the ping goes up from normal to thousands of milliseconds thus indicating network congestion of some kind.
Rollback to a previous version of iTunes is not an option because I also use it to sync my iPhone.
Any help is appreciated.

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