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What I do is just make the entire announcement and song as part of a single mp3 file. 

To create the announcement, I use the demo version of Cepestral Swifttalker (David voice) with the "Spacetime Echo" effect to give it a stadium announcer's voice effect.  I type in "Now batting.  Number ___.   Firstname  Lastname."  The program will let you hear what the text-to-speech sounds like, and then when you get it just right, you can download it as an audio file.  (You may have to tinker with some names, spelling them phonetically, in order to get the program to pronounce the name correctly).

I then select the song that will be used.

Once I do that,  I use a free audio editing program called "Audacity" (1) to trim the walk up song to the part of the song I want and the length of song and (2) import in the walk up announcement -- and then create a single file for the announcement / song.

No problem.  Its not a big deal.  I appreciate the prompt support.

Also, I just wanted to say that I think the app works great as is.  I just get a little obsessed with projects like this.  That is why I created announcements using a text to speech program and made my own walk out song files that I cropped to certain parts of the songs I chose.

The walk up song feature in the app works very well when the part of the song you want to use is at the beginning.  But sometimes the part of the song that I want to use is somewhere in the middle.  Also, for some songs I edited in different parts of the song and spliced them together.   And there were certain songs that I wanted to stop playing at a particular time, and other songs I wanted to let play for a second or two longer to make sure a certain lyric or music note was played (or not played).   It wasn't too much work to edit the tracks and I like doing it. :)

The announcements feature in the app works very well too.  But again, I get obsessed.  I wanted to use an"echo" effect that would give the announcement a reverberating sound like you hear in a large stadium.   And I wanted a voice with a deeper voice.  I used Cepstral and chose the "Walter" voice and used the "Spacetime Echo" effect.   They came out pretty good.

Again, thank you for your help and your commitment to supporting your app.  I wish all app creators were so responsive to the requests of their customers.

I got it. Thanks for the help. The problem was that I was initially using a web browser to open the email. I installed an email account and then it worked.

Is it possible to make the announcement play before the walls up song?

Hi. Thanks for replying.

I created announcements using a text to speech program and saved them as mp3 files . I also made walk out songs that I cropped to certain parts of the songs I chose and saved them as mp3s.

I transferred all of the mp3 files to my iPad with iTunes.

I was able to insert the Walk up mp3s into the lineup by finding the mp3s in iTunes.

I was not able to locate the announcement mp3s.

I do not see an option to "select 'copy to walkout song dj'.

I've been trying to do this for two hours.  I don't understand why the walk up songs show up easily, but the announcements have to be "imported" into a special folder.  Why can't the announcements be loaded from the same place as the walk up songs?