Comments on: AirPort Express audio drop out – how I solved it.

By: DWYutzy

DWYutzy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:48:53 +0000

The CPU was the issue on my end. I was running VisualHub compressing a movie in the background and had all kinds of drop-outs via AE wirelessly, even though I could play locally just fine. Once I stopped the compression and let the CPU settle down, the tunes magically started in the other room.

By: starfruit

starfruit — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:37:28 +0000

This is something that solved my problems with the airport express.
When cresting net work, under the wireless tab, the “Wireles Options” reset the multi cast rate and turning on interference robustness.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:15:35 +0000

i had a question about your computers hardware, because it may have worked for a few people and not others because of the CPUs capacity i was just wondering wat your CPU was RAM was and other things like that that can improve your CPUs capacity

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:36:49 +0000

Paul, I owe you a beer! Changing the Beacon Interval finally did the trick for me too.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:21:18 +0000

Top Man Paul! Changing the Beacon interval has done the trick for me too!

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:31:10 +0000

Here’s another fix for anyone who’s still struggling with the audio dropouts from iTunes8 to Airport Express . . .

iTunes7 worked fine with my AE but after upgrading to iTunes8 I experienced random dropouts. Long story short – I changed the Beacon Interval from 100 to 25 in the ‘Wireless LAN’ settings of my router and this has finally fixed the problem.

Hope this helps someone else!

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:02:33 +0000

Here’s a fix for random drop outs that worked for me. I have an airport express and I’m running itunes on a PC with windows vista. My AX required a firmware upgrade before it would work with itunes 8.0 (itunes reported an error code if I tried to connect to remote speakers). I could connect following the firmware upgrade, but I experienced audio drop outs approx every 60 seconds. I noticed in windows update today that an optional update was available for my Belkin MIMO network adapter. It had been available since about Oct 2008 but had not installed automatically since it was tagged as ‘optional’ rather than ‘important’. Installed the update this morning and all my drop out problems have disappeared. I hope this is some use to forum members.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:58:47 +0000

I’m using the Airport Express solely for AirTunes. As a router I’m using a WRT54GL with Tomato, and let the Express join that network. No problems with drop-outs whatsoever.

I remember I had the problem mentioned at a time that I used the Express as an Access Point.

This “tip” may not help you at all, since I guess most people will actually use the AP-part of the Express.

By: larre

larre — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:25:49 +0000

Yeah probably luck. Seems Apple has a problem with this product, talked to a lot of people with the same problems.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:30:12 +0000

It didn’t work for me, either.