Airport Express Airplay does not work properly after name change

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Okay I figured this out, and it kinda makes sense. I’m posting in case someone else might have a similar problem and can benefit from my experience.

  1. In Airport Utility, in addition to changing the name of the Base Station you must also change the name of the AirPlay speaker. D’oh.
  2. When I tried to do this through a wireless connection I got an error message. I had to do it through an hard-wired Ethernet connection. Strange but true.
  3. Even after rebooting everythjing: Core computer, router, each endpoint, and RoonServer, the IP addresses of the endpoints still show up incorrectly in Roon (169.), But maybe that will resolve with time and it doesn’t affect usability so I am ignoring it.

At this point, everything looks and sounds good, and I can now navigate to each endpoint in an easily intuitive way, which was the original objective.

Now, let’s have some music.

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