Airplay Stops Working

Same here...i'm in cannel 6 (automatic). How did you get to switch to channel 12?

You cannot switch to Channel 12 if you are in North America. Only Channels 1-11 are available.

See previous post if you are in North America.

Set your Radio Channel Selection to Manual on the AirPort Base Station ( using AirPort Utility) and then click the Edit button. You can now set your own channels. Ofcourse not all channel's will be available depending on the region you live in. Ch 12/13 won't be available in North America. If you have too much interference, pick a 5 Ghz channel/wireless network.

can someone please elaborate on how to change a channel? When I open up AE, and click on channel (with little arrow), it just takes me to the Wireless section and no options to change a channel???

Thanks.

This is driving me crazy. I have tried everything imaginable, even to the point of buying a new wifi router. Airplay will work some days just fine, and other days it just drops out constantly. Will there ever be a fix? I can't figure out if the problem is with my airport express, my wifi or the ipod touch or iphone. None of them indicate a failure of any kind, the audio just drops out. As an IT Manager I have spent years troubleshooting issues and this is one that is apparently unfixable.

Did you try changing the channel? I changed mine to 4 and it worked. Also, I have a big house on 1 acre... I have a time capsule and 6 AE's.... 2 of those are repeaters..... problem further solved when I simply moved one of those repeaters to a different outlet. Good luck.

It doesn't allow me to change the channel. It only allows me to join the network and I can't extend. Im thinking maybe my problem is the DLink DIR-655 router I have and compatability with this express. I'm going to pick up an extreme next to see if that does it but ouch its expensive.

This problem isn't limited to the iPad. What is it about the latest iTunes iOS update that broke the airplay functionality. Have posted under iPhone support too.

It'd be nice if Apple actually acknowledged these posts.

Just to throw my pennies worth in...

I too am having airplay connection drop outs and slow response when using my iphone (3GS) as a remote.

It seems to be due to my 6 month old iMac. This evening I set up my works HP windows laptop to play iTunes through my Airport Express and it worked. It worked just by itself and it also worked when my iPhone was acting as the remote control. My iphone was also updated quickly with the track names and the artwork.

I also have an old iBook G4 which I used to use for Airplay, but has been gathering dust for the last 6 months. Surprise, surprise, it still sends the audio to the airport express without problems and can be controlled by the iphone again without problems.

Works windows laptop running iTunes 10.2.2.14

old iBook running iTunes 9.2 (61)

New(ish) iMac running Itunes 10.3.1 (55)

Airport Express running FW 7.5.2 but I had the same problems with 7.4.2

I'm going to call Apple tomorrow and I shall let you know the outcome.

I have the same issue with my Denon 3312 (AirPlay capable AV receiver). It only seems to have issue on .mp3 files with bit rates 320 kbps or larger.

This denon has a non wireless connection with the mac and still has issues.

I'm not sure if this is exactly the same problem, but recently when I stram music to my AE (I have two one is newest firmware the other is older) it will work fine for a time with occasional cut outs, but suddenly it will stop playing all together. When I go to my computer the Airplay icon in iTunes is missing. In fact if I look for Airplay on any of my devices (3gs or iPad2) there is no airplay available at all.

I have tried reinstalling iTunes, changing channels and nothing. The only thing that seems to clear the problem is to shut everything down and unplug/reset my router. I've had my AE's for about 4 or 5 months but this is a new problem.

I am using Windows 7 on a newer pc...open to suggestions.

Thanks

After trying out channels 1,2,3,4 and 11, using channel 5 finally solved the problem for me.

Just try them all out and hopefully one will work.

Thank you GarryRobson!

yep, almost same thing...In my situation it is not streaming to the Airport Express that is faulted, but the Marantz Na7004 (which is wired) . Worked great. since I use another networked (wired) machine, everytime that is powered on, Airplay to the na7004 stops after 1 or 2 minutes. Itunes can't use/or see the Na7004 anymore. I can restart Itunes and use the na7004, but it stops after 1 or 2 minutes.

When I unplug the new machine, it works flawlessly again. I'm on Lion, have all updates etc etc.

It seems some kind of networking protocol problem. Have looked into the router settings (DIR855) but can't find a setting that helps (tried it all). Maybe its Bonjour, but I can not find a place to adjust settings there?

hope someone can point me to networking/bonjour settings that might help. Multicast, QoS its all enabled. All on DHCS, nothing reserved. Leasetimes are not to expire, or 24 hours, dhcs-server is 1440 minutes.

Greetings,

Marius

this has been frustrating- It's hard to have a party at the house with constant interuptions in the music.

I read somewhere that IPV6 was the problem and that I should turn that off- BOGUS-

Finally in frustration I googled "Apple air play interption" where the tribal knowledge suggested changing the wireless settings on my router (Cisco 4200) to a specific channel rather that automatic mode. I picked channel 5- it's been over an hour with no interruptions- I really hope this is the hack to make it work. /Tim in San Jose