Hi All,

I just got an AirPort Express to pipe music from my iTunes on my PC Laptop to my BeoCenter 2. I followed the installation manual and set it up and I can now play music on my BC2 wirelessly - however the sound keeps dropping out. 

Have anyone seen this before?

My setup is Lenovo T60 laptop (T7600+3GBRAM) connected via 54Mbps WIFI to a SpeedTouch ADSL2 modem/router and so is the AirPort Express. The router is in the living room as is the AirPort Express. The laptop is in my office just next to the living room but still has 100% signal strength. Encryption is WPA and WIFI channel is 8 (no one else uses 8 when I browse for WIFI networks).

When monitoring the WIFI network usage from my laptop I use approx 1% when only playing music via iTunes/AirPort Express combo. iTunes version is 7.6.0.29. CPU usage between 1% to 2%.

What is very strange is that my iTunes display showing the track and time stops whenever the sound breaks and the continues again once the sound resumes. The times are random, sometimes it will play 10 seconds without breaking and sometimes 2 seconds. The iTunes equalizer is also behaving strangely as it is lagging behind and stops showing anything a few seconds after the music breaks.

Once I play the music in iTunes only (de-selecting my AirPort Express) there are no problems what-so-ever.

Any ideas?

Christian 

I think sometimes you have incompatibilities between wireless network cards. 

Can you try to to switch of the router and reset the airport to factory settings. If you restart the airport it should create its own little wireless network. If you connect to that and then select the speaker, same result?

Cheers

JK 

Magically it has stopped doing it today. I have tried various things, but after I chose to play music both locally and via the AE it does not do it anymore. Even more strangely it has stopped doing it when I play only via AE now. When I say stopped it means I have been able to play a few albums so far and still haven't had any problems ... Yiphiee. :)

 Cheers

Christian
 

i could never get my ae thingy to work , i had 2 over 3 years and they were both useless , had to keep resetting the damn things

maybe soundproof or alex know a solution ? 

I have 2 AAE's. Both worked flawlessly until I ran iTunes 7.6

The Multiple speakers (Computer & speakers) feature doesn't work with 7.6 without a workaround. I'm Mac only and mine involves playing around with the firewall settings.  

so far this workaround works for me with itunes 7.6 - but I am running my itunes on windows.

Ha .. I knew it come back to bite me. I am now running iTunes 7.6 on my iMac and of course it won't play on my Airport Express.

It shows up in the speaker listing and I can select it ... but when trying to play/connect it comes back with an error. Using my PC is fine ...

Anyone have any ideas?

Christian 

What is the error?

I've just started using my AppleTV as an AirTunes station - brilliant!

But can you play iTunes through multiple speakers? thats my problem

10.5.2 has really messed up airport - beware !

 loads of threads at apple discussions aboot it