itunes 6.0 broke my airport express
At least, I think it broke it. I'm pretty sure. Given that when I had iTunes 5.0, I could broadcast music to my living room stereo via my Airport Express and now... well... it's been hosed for a while and I've wasted a lot of time trying to get it to work.
I even posted in the Apple Discussion Forums and not much has come of it.
So if anyone out there has had a similar problem, where they're running a Windows XP workstation with iTunes 6.0 broadcasting through a Linksys 802.11g Wireless G Access Point to an Apple Airport Express that's hooked up to a home stereo, and it suddenly stoppped working, and you've managed to get it working again through some miraculous hacking...
Then drop me a comment.
The exact error condition (warning: this next passage has nothing to do with cycling or my usual topics and may be considered by some of my regular readers as a lot of technobabble) is as follows.
The Airport Express stopped working. Green light was on, but iTunes couldn't see it. Neither could my Airport Express config tool. So I unplugged it from the wall, plugged it back in. That brought it up, flashing yellow this time (error).
So then I walked it over to my PC, plugged it in via Ethernet. Finally had to hit the reset button to get it back to Factory Settings. Then I could at least see it and talk to it using the Airport Express config tools. During this process, I noticed it was out of date on the firmware side. So I upgraded it to the current release (4.2 of the Admin Utility).
I have a home network running already, so I set it up to join that network, configured the AirTunes section (all the stuff I'd done before - nothing had changed other than an iTunes 6.0 upgrade), and yes, the MAC address on the device was enabled in my 802.11g home network setup. Hit Update, the Admin Util says "shutting down" and counts down until the Airport Express reboots... then...
Yellow blinking light.
And it doesn't appear on the network.
I even tried hardcoding an IP address that I knew wasn't being used, but was still valid with the DHCP block of addresses the wireless router hands out. Nope. That didn't work either.
So this really sucks, as I have all of my CD's now ripped into iTunes and this little device had drastically changed the way I listen to music. I'd come home, put on a smart playlist of some variety, redirect it to my home stereo and listen to an endless stream of music for the next few hours...
Anyhoo. Now it's hosed. Any suggestions?
Tags: itunes | airportexpress | bug
I even posted in the Apple Discussion Forums and not much has come of it.
So if anyone out there has had a similar problem, where they're running a Windows XP workstation with iTunes 6.0 broadcasting through a Linksys 802.11g Wireless G Access Point to an Apple Airport Express that's hooked up to a home stereo, and it suddenly stoppped working, and you've managed to get it working again through some miraculous hacking...
Then drop me a comment.
The exact error condition (warning: this next passage has nothing to do with cycling or my usual topics and may be considered by some of my regular readers as a lot of technobabble) is as follows.
The Airport Express stopped working. Green light was on, but iTunes couldn't see it. Neither could my Airport Express config tool. So I unplugged it from the wall, plugged it back in. That brought it up, flashing yellow this time (error).
So then I walked it over to my PC, plugged it in via Ethernet. Finally had to hit the reset button to get it back to Factory Settings. Then I could at least see it and talk to it using the Airport Express config tools. During this process, I noticed it was out of date on the firmware side. So I upgraded it to the current release (4.2 of the Admin Utility).
I have a home network running already, so I set it up to join that network, configured the AirTunes section (all the stuff I'd done before - nothing had changed other than an iTunes 6.0 upgrade), and yes, the MAC address on the device was enabled in my 802.11g home network setup. Hit Update, the Admin Util says "shutting down" and counts down until the Airport Express reboots... then...
Yellow blinking light.
And it doesn't appear on the network.
I even tried hardcoding an IP address that I knew wasn't being used, but was still valid with the DHCP block of addresses the wireless router hands out. Nope. That didn't work either.
So this really sucks, as I have all of my CD's now ripped into iTunes and this little device had drastically changed the way I listen to music. I'd come home, put on a smart playlist of some variety, redirect it to my home stereo and listen to an endless stream of music for the next few hours...
Anyhoo. Now it's hosed. Any suggestions?
Tags: itunes | airportexpress | bug
3 Comments:
now that you have your airport working again, we can work on your stereo.
you need one of these:
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build yourself one of these:
http://www.parts-express.com/projectshowcase/cynosure/index.html
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seafoam, at 4:29 pm
Update:
Since this post, I managed to get it working again. But only by going to static IP's all around. And I also found out there were some upstream DHCP issues (there's daisy-chained routers off of an ADSL modem in my place) that may have been buggering things up.
I found the way to get it working again was 1: set the Airport Express to a static address. 2: on the save/committ sequence, unplug the ethernet as the device reboots.
3: before it comes back online again, unplug it, walk it over to the place in the house it's going to be installed, 4: plug it into the wall, 5: hold your breath.
The unplugging of the ethernet as it rebooted seemed key, for whatever reason. Once configured to be wireless, it seemed to need it to be wireless -- conflict between the plug and the 802.11g signal, perhaps? I'm speculating at this point.
Anyhow, it's been static for over a month now and that's been fine. I dare not go back to DHCP in the house, as I'm afraid that will break everything....
Good luck.
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Gordon, at 4:16 pm
Interesting. If at all possible I would like to continue to use DHCP. Since my last comment - I have managed to get my wireless music back but at a price!
I uninstalled itunes 6 and reinstalled itunes 4.something (from the cd that came with my airtunes express). This meant that I automagically could stream all my music to my sterio again! :-) BUT - in the process I lost all my playlists - i didn't realize that the unistall would zap everything.
Too make things worse still I can play all of my music EXCEPT music that I have acutally purchased on the itunes store! I am prompted to authorize this computer to play these tracks - but when I enter my password - itunes tells me that I need to upgrade my version of itunes in order to use the music store! ARRGGHH!
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