Streaming to airport express speakers stops....

Question

Ok this is the current situation.
I got a Macbook air with the latest OSX version
A 500 Gb Time capsule with the latest firmware up to date
A Airport Express (with speed N available) also with the latest firmware up to date
The Airport express and the Time capsule are in the same wireless network.
Latest version of Itunes available
The Itunes library is stored on the Time capsule (128GB MCA drive is a bit small)
problem is RANDOM
When i'm playing music trough my speakers connected to the airport express, randomly the sound stops but itunes continues to play the song.
or it happens when itunes switches to the next song and starts playing but there is no sound coming out of the speakers
The only solution i found thus-far is press pauze and press play again, this way the music start playing again trough the speakers. but i find this unacceptable.
sometimes there is no problem for a whole day and sometimes it happens after a random number of songs. And the problem does not only happen when Time machine is backing up the drive.
anyone here had the same problem. or could solve it?

Answer 1

I have this problem as well. I do IT for a living, have been for the past 10yrs. Through my troubleshooting steps, here is what I've observed:
- Itunes stops streaming to airport but continues to play in itunes
- unplug airport, it reconnects, but only briefly and audio drops off again
- update itunes to newest version and all works well. I can stream for hours uninterrupted.
- Open Itunes a few months later and "Itunes Version X is available, do you want to update"
- I select "not now" (I want to listen to my music, not wait for an update!)
- Issue presents itself again, streaming audio drops off.
- So I install the freakin itunes update to the newest version
- Streaming music works again, no issues
- Open Itunes a few months later and "Itunes Version X is available, do you want to update"
- I select "not now" (I want to listen to my music, not wait for an update!)
- Issue presents itself again, streaming audio drops off.
- So I install the freakin itunes update to the newest version
- Streaming music works again, no issues
I've gone through this at least 4 times. The airport always seems to act up whenever the newest version of iTunes/update is available. Not sure if other peripherals act up under the same circumstances and if its something done on purpose to force people to update, but it is annoying. It does make sense though to use as a mechanism to keep people updating their software, "oh its giving you an issue? Well have you updated to the newest version?" - all too natural. I'll let someone else rant about Apple's possible motive for possibly incorporating a feature like this...