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Is there a definitive answer for how to stop intermittent "skips" or pauses while playing music from iTunes to an airport express connected to my home stereo? When I read other forums I see a wealth of posts that say "I did XYZ and it's fixed" followed by "I tried XYZ and it didn't work."
This does not appear to be signal strength related. The green light on the Airport Express does not turn to yellow/orange. Other wireless devices have no trouble connecting at the same or greater distances from the wireless router.
Worth noting is that some file(type)s seems to be more stable to play than others. My guess is that the computing requirements varies depending on the compression type used (e.g., mp3 cbr, mp3 vbr, aac, lossless compression etc) and on hardware that is about to fail the CPU must struggle harder with tasks other than decompressing the music stream. Hence skipping. – d-b – 2014-04-30T14:34:39.337