For a while now we've had an airport express playing music through the stereo. It's been far from "just works". At one point I was losing the drive mount on the router where the music was stored (different story), but lately the computer has been losing the connection to the stereo with a "Unknown error -15000 occured". (aside, I think that it was -15000, but some posts talk about -15006).
The only solution seemed to be to reboot the routers and wait for it to happen randomly again. These problems don't seem to just me either. I finally found a solution that seems to have worked for a couple of days, so fingers crossed. If you look at the log for the router, you can see all these errors like "AirTunes time sync receive error -6730". Now, I'm not sure why the device is trying to time sync, nor why it's not working since it's got the DNS router configured to be our airport extreme (which should work). Either way, turning off time sync for that device seems to have fixed the issue for now.
On a positive side, I've discovered internet radio and joined the rest of 1997. Now I can play CBC Radio 3 through the stereo and it's actually clear. Good times, good times.
Next I'm going to have to figure out how to stop the microwave from messing things up.
Update (2010-04-28): I don't get it. I ran into the dreaded -15000 error again after trying to start the music after it was paused. Then I cursed. Then I hit the play button again and it worked. Checking the log it has "AirTunes time sync receive error: -6730" in the log, but I have the "set time automatically" turned off. AHghhghhghh!! But it's working again, without a reboot. *deep breath*
Update (2010-05-02): Shortly after my last update I was having troubles with the express again. Same error messages, even with the time sync disabled. I re-enabled the time sync, but this time instead of time.apple.com I used the airport extreme as the time server for the network. No problems in the logs since the 28th. I hope that it keeps up.
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