AirPlay music streaming stops between songs

I think, I've found the root cause, I had the same problem, the music drops every minute some times each second. I have time capsule, tree airport express installed around of my home, also I have a mac mini as a media server and my mac book where I usually do my work.

I noted that I had the streaming itunes problem when usually work from my computer, and especially when connect my computer trough the VPN to my office, this demands a lot of bandwidth. I tried to play music without the VPN Connection, and voila after this no problem at all.

this workaround works.

but althrough Apple should fix this bug with iTunes.

i am using Mavericks (10.9.1) and iTunes 11.1.3 - and every 3-5 songs the music stops if a next song should start when i am streaming music via AirPlay on my AppleTV.

I thought this was a little nuts. Why would I want all the audio routed to a room at the other end of the house? I want the music in both locations.

However, I did what was suggested and switched the computer output to my Express. It, of course, works without dropping.

However, I then went to iTunes and selected the computer and Express (Express was already selected). I then went to Sound prefs. and the Express was no longer checked. I then switched the output to HDMI from internal speakers that the Sound prefs had defaulted to.

Now it's been an hour of playing through the HDMI and the Express and I haven't had one drop yet. Before it was every 1-2 minutes.

I wonder if iTunes now somehow 'remembers' that the Express is now the prefered output and doesn't lose it?

I spoke too soon.

After about 90 minutes it started acting up again.

Crap! I'm going to trial AirFoil.

I have been having this problem with my mac mini streaming to an Apple Tv2 for a few months now. I think since I've updated to Mavericks or the latests itunes. It is very frustrating as you know. All my music is MP3 format (not lossless) and the music stops between songs. Sometimes it will go 2 songs without stopping and sometimes more, or only 1 song. It makes no sense to me.

I do seem to have less problems when I use my apple tv to stream the music rather than the mac mini itself. Has anyone else noticed that?

Extraordinary!!

The problem of dropouts due to Mavericks seems to be disappeared this morning when I got the mavericks and itunes last update.

I'm playing an entire song without dropouts without using ethernet cable, but simply using wi-fi connection!!

Finally they made it!

I don't know instead if the other historycal trouble is solved or not, I mean the one that caused the timeline going on while no music is hearable!

Fantastic!

Please, let me know if you too have no trouble anymore.

Unluckily this evening I have to say the troubles are all present again...nothing was solved...it was just this morning that everything went fine...maybe it's due to the fact that many people is not in their apartment in the morning and the nearby's wifi do not disturb my wifi network...

Again troubles...what a mess!

kiwirich wrote:

I too had this issue and after some searching found that the following works flawlessly. You will be utilising Airplay for all audio on your Mac, not just iTunes but if you do this it no longer stops between songs.

1. Hold down Alt key on your keyboard.
2. Click the speaker icon in your menu bar.
3. Select the Airplay device.

This tricks works for me 😎

Thanks.

Hi everyone...

I have Mac all across the board. Mavericks as well. Airplay keeps dropping the signal. I have tried many things to no avial.

Finally, and as a separate issue, Safari was giving me a hard time, so I switched to Firefox and guess what? iTunes now works great without dropping the signal.

For me Safari was somehow in the way of Airplay.

Hope this works for some of you. Cheers

Still present with me too.

I have my Mac output runing as usual via a USB DAC and also over Airply to an AppleTV.

Between every song, the signal drops to the AppleTV for a couple of seconds and then switches back on again.

Ocassionally I also get a yellow wrning triangle next the AppleTV as if it's disconnected, but I can reselect it and it works again.

Very flaky and always has been

AirPlay music streaming stops between songs problem it happens to me too with iphone6 ios9 and Pioneer AV receiver.

I solved this problem for me:

After seeing that Airplay stops at the beginning of some particular songs, I discovered that the difference between the songs that not stop Airplay and songs that stop Airplay is the coding date.

Solution: I've re-converted all my MP3 library again to MP3 and after works perfectly!

I used for example "Free Audio Converter"

Note: I recommend make a backup of the library and convert the files at the same rate (kbps) to the input file to avoid losing quality.

Problem solved, when using:

iTunes 12

Airport Express (current version)

Airport Extreme (configured as a wifi access point and bridge)

The symptom was that when running multiple speakers in iTunes using 2 Airport Extremes and 2 Apple TV's, the music would cut out only on the Airport Express boxes. The network connection showed good (green status light) but the iTunes Multiple Speakers dropdown showed a problem with the two Airport Express boxes. The music would continue to stream on the Apple TV's. One Apple TV is connnected via Ethernet, the other via Wifi 5 GHz. One Airport Express is connected via Wifi 5 GHz, and the other via Wifi 2.2 GHz.

The fix was to apply an optional firmware upgrade to the Airport Extreme. The version 7.7.3 upgrade is listed as an optional bug fix for WPA2 security. My Airport Utility didn't even think it was important to apply this upgrade. So I did it manually.

Been running the music through all remote speakers for an hour, with no drops in the music.

Problem solved. At least, until Apple pushes out the next update and breaks something else.