Airplay audio cuts out intermittently

And the plot thickens...my shatty Dell E5420 laptop is able to play the same song without skipping, over my wireless no less (good to know my wireless network is configured properly)! Two additional troubleshooting steps I just tried:

*Ran a continuous ping to my A/V receiver, all pings are <1ms.

*Downgraded from Bonjour 3.0.0.10 to Bonjour 2.0.2.0, no change.

I'm now going to try upgrading to iTunes 12.2 which just came out today. I'm absolutely stumped by this!

-Snipe

I'm beginning to believe this issue has something to do with my NIC/NIC settings/NIC driver or a BIOS setting. I just ran a Wireshark trace and I see the following right when I get my first stutter (and subsequent stutters):

192.168.1.71 is my main PC that has the stuttering, and 192.168.1.75 is my Yamaha RX-V473 Receiver. I sadly can't make heads or tails of this, and Google is proving less than helpful. I'm now investigating the following thread:

http://www.sysnative.com/forums/windows-7-windows-vista-tutorials/5721-how-diagn ose-fix-high-dpc-latency-issues-wpa-wind…

Time to relax for the rest of the evening and get back to troubleshooting tomorrow...joy.

-Snipe

This has been resolved thanks to the following thread on a different forum:

http://www.sysnative.com/forums/windows-7-windows-vista/15153-stuttering-skippin g-audio-when-using-airplay.html

Obviously, I received no help on this forum unfortunately, but I figured it was worth sharing the solution nonetheless.

Thanks,

-Snipe

Thank you, you solved my problem big time.

I have high-speed comnet and reasonable wireless coverage in a single room - and yet with the router ethernet-connected to my apple TV unit (100 mbps) I still lose sub-second skips from music playing on either my MacAir (worse) and my iPhone 5s (not as bad). but the "skipping" sound is maddening considering that I always have PERFECT bluetooth connections to a Bose independent speaker and a Beats Pill. Movies usually work (sometimes die and lose connection but no skipping). I have the only available connection to my amplifier - the optical connection - but I thought that would be perfect. Oh well - have two of these. I wish I used a Microsoft PC (sort of) then I'd use chromecast or miracast.

Here is what worked for me. Shut everything down. Turn off audio unit then turn off ipad, iphone, mac, whatever and restart your device without the receiver on. Then start itunes. Then start the receiver and it should fix the problem.

Good Luck

Hi all

The main issue isnt with your routers, wifi or device - its Apple's IOS at fault !!!!

This started happening to me as soon as we upgraded to ios 8.3 and beyond !

All devices brand new and old coming into our property have issues with AIRPLAY, only certain old devices such as iPods running IOS6.x work fully and stable

Complain to Apply as I am sick of the problem and informing them to correct this and their new MUSIC app

Rant over ...................................

Do you have a VPN turned on? That has caused AirPlay drop-outs for me, but with VPN off I have no such troubles with any of my devices.

Nope, as I said its become an issue in later versions of the OS - new devices have come into our setting and they still have the same issue. My OLD ipod running its last version ios 6.x has no issues whatsoever

I wish Apple develppment team would stop messing with both the MUSIC app and associated AIRPLAY functions, we only gained transmitted track info a couple of revisions ago after they had been messing and issued the new versions without PROPER testing first !

HMmm. In my own experience, AirPlay has actually become rock-solid in recent years. Have to wonder if something else changed when you updated your iOS version. Do you have more than one router?

I didn't read the whole thread thought. But I was facing the same problem (audio cuts out intermittently). I changed my network from 2,4 to 5 Ghz and the streaming is smooth/perfect. I cannot explain this because my LAN and WLAN are perfect.

set up: Denon AVR 4520, Airport Extreme first floor and my Home Cinema set up on the second floor works with the assistance of an Airport Express (wired connection with the Extreme) IPad for streaming iTunes collection.

Definitely seems to have helped me. Good call.

I know this is a *very* old thread, but I just found this when trying to fix issues I was having with dropouts from iTunes to Airport Expresses, using an Airport Extreme as my main router. WDS on, dropouts. WDS off, no dropouts.

As Apple may have discontinued their team working on routers, this is sad. We've been locked into the ecosystem, but now we're starting to slip out of the Apple world. This may be the last thing keeping us in. I'd like to extend my network, but if I'm going to use different hardware, I may go another streaming route (Chrome, Sonos, etc).

Anyone else see WDS causing issues?

That's precisely why records and CDs are still the way to go