Two Airport Express no longer playing AirPlay?

Hi all,
I've had two Airport Express devices for about 3 years now, they all work fine as access points, have been kept up to date with firmware etc. but since a couple of months ago or so (I don't exactly know when, I've been away for some time) any attempt at playing from iTunes on my 2010 macbook pro fail with "connection timed out" problems. The airport express can be seen and managed just fine in the configuration utility. I even tried using a second airport express with the same result.
Nothing has changed in my network or computer hardware, the only changes have been updates to mountain lion (after which it still worked I should add) and the usual itunes updates.
Is this Apple scheming me into buying new hardware?
Cheers
- Balt

some times the electricity blinks in the house... have you tried restarting both units... just unplug it for ten seconds then plug back in.

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