7.5.2 Update causing skipping when playing via AirPlay

Anyone help yet...?
I see there are a lot of posts re the cutting out of AE and toones, seems like apple need to get their updates sorted out pronto. By the way, my daughters ipod2 touch also cuts out when playing through airplay through AE, so dont think its the hardware using it, its definitely a problem with the AE or airport utility / Time capsule network thingy...

Anyone any luck? 😉

Matt

I have the same problem with skipping too. Sometimes AirPlay from my iPhone loses the ability to stream thru the Express totally and I have to power cycle all components, iPhone 4, ROuter and Express .... it's all very fragile to m 😟

Here too. Playing Pandora or iTunes, still skipping regardless of FW version. Playing from
MacBook (OS X 10.6.5) to Airport Express.
This is driving me, and my guests, crazy.

Didn't someone say they had talked to Apple? So they know about this?

Carlo

I dont have any problem playing from Imac to AE or MBP to AE, only Ipad and pod/phone. It seems like the AE isnt waking up / responding to the request from the handsets on the wireless.

Have left them at 7.4.2 but still have the problem.

Have hard wired the Imac to the Bose for now....BOOM nice..


Matt

Several of us have solved the skipping problem by first updating Airport Utility to 5.5.2 before updating Airport Express firmware to 7.5.2.

Otherwise, you could leave Airport Express at 7.4.2, which also runs without skipping problems.

interesting. i moved, updated firmware, and have been having skips in airtunes ever since (i already had updated aiport utility). so i went back to 7.4.1 firmware, and ran pretty well (a few very-short skips).
just went back to 7.5.2 and...so far so good (1/2 hour). will see how this holds up.

all of this is far more mysterious than it needs to be; apple needs to fix the dropout issue...

The fw is at the 7.4.2 and now still have the same problem . Can I revert the airport utility back a stage too?

Matt

and dropouts again. have just gone back to 7.4.1 firmware, and will give it a few days.

with all i have read on this forum (and elsewhere), seems apple needs to fix this: lots of theories, no absolute solution yet (sigh)...

Tim - Sorry it didn't work for you. I think updating to 5.5.2 has an effect, though I can't say for sure what it is. I don't think it was happenstance that updating to 5.5.2 eliminated the skipping issue for some of us.

Since AU is the conduit through which firmware updates are downloaded and installed, isn't it possible that AU 5.5.1 does not interact properly with AX firmware 7.5.2 during install or download (presumably, there's a reason Apple recommends 5.5.2 before 7.5.2)? Or perhaps updating to 5.5.2 altered whatever AX or router configuration was causing the skipping problem without affecting the firmware install itself. To me, it seems more analogous to upgrading Software Update or Mac OS X before installing a Safari update.

I thought it went away when I rolled pack to 7.4.2. It came back. Another form suggested turning off 'genius' and 'ping'.

Matt and Sarah, are you using Indigo? If so, Indigo had me turn off Bluetooth on the iPad and that problem went away. My AirTunes still skips w/o iPad attached but your issue sounded a little different.

Exactly the same here. I have Airport Extreme, Airport Express, MacBook Pro, iPad, iPhones, iMac, etc, and tge setup has worked perfectly for the past 5 or 6 years until the last few months. Now, I now suffer music dropout when streaming from any of the above devices. I also, occasionally, lose Internet to my MacBook Pro.

It goes without saying, I have done everything. Resetting, re-sighting, rebuilding, etc. The only thing that usually helps is if I put the laptop, iPad, etc., within a foot or two of the Airport Express. I haven't had to do this for the last 5 years though.

I can only think this has something to do with the latest iTunes release. Unless we all have faulty Airport Expresses!

Come on Apple. This needs sorting.

Garry Robson.

I found a solution at last! At least it works for me. I am back to non-dropout airtunes 🙂

After much resetting, re-sighting, etc., I went back to 'channels'. Guess what? Success (for me at least) on Channel 12 - and ONLY Channel 12 !! Even holds good when reconfigured into WDS extended network. Happy days!