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Hi Ian
As long as the two iTunes Library Files (.itl and .XML) are also on the NAS, then you can use the Remote App to "send" Music Tracks to the Airport Expresses[/quote]
I still do not believe that this is possible. Have you actually done this?

I cannot see how what you say can possibly work. The apple remote app requires a pass code to be entered in an itunes server for the remote app to connect to a library. If the iTunes server is switched off, then apple remote cannot connect to the iTunes library. If you try and connect to the library on a NAS, you cannot add another library as there is no way of entering the pass code on the NAS - that I can see anyhow - and it appears from trawling the web, neither can anyone else.

There is a common mis conception that iTunes on NAS' are iTunes, but they are not, they simply present themselves as a shared iTunes library to iTunes itself.

I did alot of investigation into NAS boxes late last year, and I could find no NAS box whose iTunes server could be used in any standalone form without either having iTunes working, need a third party app to actually serve the music or simply present the iTunes library as files again needing something capable of serving the music - Airport Express cannot act in this way and needs iTunes (or other apple apps) to serve it with music.