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Old 19th September 2008, 09:11 PM
 
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Hope someone can help me.
I have an Intel Mac running latest Leopard. I link my music library in iTunes to my stereo with an airport express. After updating to iTunes 8 I now get the following error message when I attempt to play music.
"An error occurred while connecting to the remote speaker "Stereo". An unknown error occurred (-3256)"
I reset the airport express and reprogrammed the network to no avail. The computer is detecting the signal.
Any ideas!
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Old 19th September 2008, 09:24 PM
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This dialog may occur if the Mac OS X Firewall is configured to block UDP traffic or is not configured to "Set access for specific services and applications."
Error -3256 or -15000 when streaming to AirPort Express base stations using iTunes

The page has instructions, and also information on how to upgrade your APEx to the latest version.
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It sounds like the firmware issue I had the other day - run Airport Utility and you will probably find you need to upgrade to 6.3.
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Many thanks,
Went into system preferences/security/firewall and selected "Set access for specific services and applications". Now works fine. Preferences must have changed with latest leopard upgrade.
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Error -3256 or -15000 when streaming to AirPort Express base stations using iTunes

The page has instructions, and also information on how to upgrade your APEx to the latest version.
I had this problem after the itunes 8 upgrade. After following the apple instructions it's working again My firmware was all current to it's something specific to itunes 8 as it broke it the minute it updated.
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