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I was not aware of any specific change of the Natalie voice, but the AI vendors do update the models occasionally and that can change how it sounds especially in a before and after comparison. You might want to check if your speed, pitch, and style are the same as they were when you did the other players. Those can get easily bumped. 

The remedy in a situation like that is to do a team generate with that voice when you have the settings as you like them which will get them all to the same generation settings.  Team generate is available as an option at the bottom of the ai generate screen for any player on the team.

The app cannot transfer actual music files between devices due to copyright material transfer legal issues. The only current way to do this is to import the same files to the other device. Assuming you must have had the files at some point when you originally imported them. I can add a feature request to see if we could make the import folder the app uses available to the files app.  When the app was originally written 13 years ago, there was no such thing as a files app and no one has ever made this request until now.

I could see the pause path being the potential problem as that really does leave the song in a queued and prepared mode in the apple music app. The several minutes later clue brings into play a potential backgrounding of the app and or kill of the app by the OS and then on restart, not sure what the behavior would be with that dangling song. I might be able to add some code to the app to clear the queue on a potential OS kill and see if that avoids the issue. I don't see any direct link to bluetooth if you were not using bluetooth for playback, but anything is possible in the mystery of the Apple music player.

I only recall one other post on this topic and the user stopped responding before I could get to the bottom of it.  You do offer a clue he did not in that it is the same song that last played. To give you some background on what might be happening: to play an Apple Music song, the app starts a remote Apple music service that is hosted by the apple music app on the device. When you do your fade/stop/pause a signal is sent to that remote service to do the action and it usually works, but that song would remain in queue of that service. Seems something must be bumping the service to start playing the song again. No clue what that would be.  Does the rogue play start immediately after the your action or has some time gone by when it triggers? Is there any correlation to which way you stop the players song.. ie pressing the pause button, pressing the fade button, letting if fade and finish normally?

If the phone and tablet share the same Apple account you should not need to purchase another premium.  Try the 'restore purchase option' on the tablet. That should get it working for you.

I was able to download both without issue on my Android test devices so I would guess there is something on your device or possibly internet connection causing an issue. Try tapping the three dot at the top right hand corner and pick videos and search for those again. See if you can download it from those results.

Could those songs possibly be explicit versions? I have heard some issues where YouTube blocks those because they can't tell your age from an anonymous login.  If you could send me the YouTube link for one example, I can try it here to see if I get the same error?

Is this error with Walkout Song DJ or the Simple Song Collector?

I received your data and I am not having any luck duplicating any issues.  As most of the recent changes that could impact volume were all done with checks for Bluetooth, you're really not hitting any new code. Also, none of those code changes were done in the time period between June 6 and 13.  Most were done in April and late May. I suspect you may just be dealing with some Apple music playback issues. That would also explain the button issues. 

Can you confirm that all issues are occurring with the old iPad and not the newer one?

on the which player question, I meant the name of your player entry where the issue is occurring.  So I can try to duplicate here.

Could do a share data from the settings page of the app and send that to walkoutsongdj@gmail.com?
Could you also include as much detail as you can for how to repeat the issue?

It would be helpful to know:
-which player you are able to repeat the issue with?
-ipad model?
-What speaker model you are using?
-Are you connecting to the speaker with Bluetooth or an aux cable?
-Date when you first noticed the issue?
-Last date before that when it was working without issue?
-Do you have external speaker wakeup enabled on the settings page of the app?
-What is the volume level you are using when this occurs, max, 3/4, 1/2 ?

This has been fixed and all voices should now be available. I apologize for the inconvenience. If for some reason you don't see all the voices, kill the app and restart. That should force it to query the provider again.

ALERT: one of the AI announcement providers is having issues again this morning so you will only get 10 of the usual 50 or so voices. I have notified the provider and I expect to get it fixed soon.  The better voices are still available, but I understand if you created teams with one of the now missing voices and you are just adding a player, you are probably stuck until I can get this remedied.  Hopefully, this won't take too long to resolve.    Also note, this is why I found a new provider that is the source of the voices you can still see. I would recommend switching over to one of them just for reliability.

Just a heads up for everyone... I just moved Walkout Song DJ for iOS from a paid app to a limited free app with a one time purchase premium of $6.99 today.  The change was made to allow the app to be available for people to compare will all the new AI generated copy cat apps. 

For those of you who purchased prior versions already, you should not see any difference in app behavior other than an Account Status on the settings page of the app that indicates that you have Premium status = grandfathered.  If for any freaky reason that is not the case for you, please DM me here and we will get it fixed for you. 

If you have friends out there that wanted to try it out but the price for download was a barrier, please let them know they can try it now for free.

With the addition of the new voices in version 4.1.1, what's everyone's favorite now?