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An odd fix for AirTunes intermittent dropouts
Authored by: Kino500 on Mar 07, '07 12:48:08PM

Hi everyone. The "odd fix" doesn't work. Tried it on my Windows Desktop. It's also annoying. Here's what DOES work...

After much frustration trying to keep Airtunes connections working, I discovered a simple way to keep Airtunes running 100% of the time!!

I have an Airport Extreme (2007 Wireless-N), and an Airport Express. I run a Windows XP desktop PC with a WIRED connection to the Extreme. The Express is wirelessly connected across the room to my hi-fi. The Extreme and Express are about 50' apart.

I received the Airport utility version 5.0 with the Extreme. Not sure if this will work with version 4.2, which is the only version you can currently download at Apple.com.

Here's how I fixed the connection cutting out...

I leave the Airport Utility program OPEN. It's that simple. By not closing the Utility program while running my computer I get 100% connection all the time, and play Airtunes all day if I want.

Minimize, but don't close the program. It seems to keep the connection alive.

My only beef with iTunes right now is that sharing libraries and running music off a network is unintuitive and SLOWS the computer down terribly. If Apple could make iTunes more lean and mean for networking, it would be the killer app for music it wants to be.

K



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