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iTunes 9 breaking AirTunes connections?
Engadget — Apple breaking support for third-party devices in iTunes may not have been all that unexpected, but you'd think it'd have support for its own products lined up before pushing a major update out the door -- especially something that it had already broken with the last major iTunes update. AirTunes users apparently aren't that ...

News: iTunes 9 causing AirTunes connection problems?
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — A number of iTunes users are reporting problems getting iTunes’ AirTunes feature to work with their Airport Express units after upgrading to iTunes 9. Based on user reports in an Apple Discussions thread, the problem does not appear to be isolated to any specific operating system or Airport Express model, as both Mac and PC users, and owners of both 802.11g- and 802.11n-capable Airport Express units say they have been getting an error message stating, “An error occurred while connecting to the remote speaker ‘[Airport Express Name]’. The network connection failed.” Curiously, a number of users reported similar problems after installing iTunes 8. ...

Air Pollution: Is iTunes 9 Crashing AirTunes
iSmashPhone — To nobody's surprise, the new iTunes 9 promptly turned up its nose at allowing Palm Pre's to sync with the program.  Again.  What nobody expected is syncing problems with Apple hardware. But that's exactly what users of the home audio streaming service AirTunes are reporting, as connections to iT9 are dropping like the proverbial flies.  There's already an active thread on the Apple Support forum discussing the issue, and (one would hope) a speedy fix from the House of Jobs in the pipeline. [Via Engadget] ...

iTunes 9 creating issues with AirTunes?
MacFixIt — Some users that take advantage of the ability for iTunes to stream to external speakers wirelessly via AirTunes are finding that after upgrading to iTunes 9 their AirTunes capabilities no longer work properly. A growing thread in the Apple Support Discussions has users communicating their experiences with the issue. The issue begins when users with previous AirTunes setups upgrade their iTunes application to the current version, 9. (Now 9.0.1.) ASD user "Vengance" reports: It's [AirTunes] connected once or twice, randomly. Most of the time it says "An error occurred while ...