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Issue Reporting / Apple Music and Text to Speech overlap with iOS 13

« on: October 01, 2019, 10:41:12 am »

Apple did a bit of a butcher job with the overlapping of text to speech with the Apple Music player in iOS 13 and it is still broken in all the patches up to 13.1.2.  As a workaround until they figure it out... you can:

- try different voices (the behavior is different with each).
- try to either completely overlap the song and announcement or keep them from overlapping at all (one starting while the other is playing is the broken piece)
- purchase the specific songs you use for walk ups. (Non-Apple music songs do not use the problem player)
- use an alternate Apple device on iOS 12 or earlier.

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Issue Reporting / Re: IOS 13 problems

« on: September 18, 2019, 06:29:56 am »

I did get fixes for most of the iOS 13 problems uploaded to the App Store and released last night.  You can search for the app in the store and force an update to get you past the black screen iTunes selector.

The big remaining issue that I could not fix is that Apple Music playback stops if the walkout song app is backgrounded.  That is fixed by Apple if you get or wait for iOS 13.1

If you find any other issues please let me know.

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Issue Reporting / IOS 13 problems

« on: September 13, 2019, 08:54:12 pm »

With iOS 13 due out in a couple weeks, I started testing compatibility with Walkout Songs.  The tests did not go well so far with the most glaring issues being a black screen when trying to chose songs from the iTunes library and an app hang when the app is closed and reopened after playing a song. 

Some of the issues go away when tested against iOS 13.1 which is due for release 11 days after 13 so I'm pretty sure Apple knows there were some glaring issues with 13 and I would suggest waiting for 13.1 and a new update from me to clean up the compatibility problems I can fix.

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Issue Reporting / Re: Unable to add separate teams

« on: July 20, 2019, 06:01:09 pm »

Have you tried tapping on the teams button on the top left of the player table, then tapping on the plus button to add a new team?

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Rearranging player order in walkout song playlist

« on: July 15, 2019, 09:12:21 pm »

Yes, tap the edit button and then drag the player rows by the gripper that appears to right of each player to set whatever order you need.

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Issue Reporting / Re: Uploading music to Walkout Song DJ

« on: June 20, 2019, 05:40:51 am »

Yes, a drm converter can be used to change the encrypted mp4 files from Apple music to an mp3 file that can be imported by Walkout Song DJ.  However, that conversion is no longer required for the Apple version of Walkout Songs because direct support for Apple music songs was added to the app in spring of 2018.  The Android version would still require conversion because Apple has not yet provided an interface for third party apps on Android.

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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions / Re: Home Sharing

« on: June 08, 2019, 09:24:09 am »

Can you send me some screen shots to help me diagnose?  Send to email walkoutsongdj@gmail.com.

1) itunes library picker view from within the walkout song app.
2) songs view from the apple music app.
3) icloud file view of the songs you put there.

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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions / Re: Home Sharing

« on: June 08, 2019, 08:18:02 am »

When you open the Apple music app on the device does it have any songs in the library?  All music from Apple Music and iTunes comes from an interface to that Apple Music app.
Please also verify that you have granted the permission for the Walkout Song app to access your iTunes library.

To access the songs on iCloud, you would need to long tap share them and pick "copy to walkout songs".  That would copy the song files internal to the app and they would be visible in the imported files section.

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Enhancement Requests / Re: IOS Multitasking / Split screen Support

« on: June 04, 2019, 02:00:05 pm »

As a quick test, I checked whether gamechanger on iPad supports the split screen and it does not.  You should probably request that feature from them as well!

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Enhancement Requests / Re: IOS Multitasking / Split screen Support

« on: June 03, 2019, 07:54:51 am »

That does sound like a pretty useful feature.  I will add that to the feature list and see how hard it is to do.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions / Re: Exporting and importing settings

« on: May 30, 2019, 06:36:02 pm »

Just long tap on that export.wsdj file and select "copy to walkout songs" from the menu that pops up.

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Is there anything for third party music applications

« on: May 19, 2019, 10:43:53 am »

There is a chance, but it is up to Spotify...   I had the Spotify support written for both Android and Apple years ago, but Spotify will not grant me commercial approval to release it.  I have been requesting that approval for three years now and they simply won't respond.  I suspect my app is just not large enough a market for them to bother with. 

I tell everyone that asks to send a request to Spotify asking them why they will not allow you to use your Spotify with the Walkout Song DJ app like Apple Music does.

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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions / Re: Pre-game going crazy

« on: May 17, 2019, 10:08:48 pm »

you actually don't have to import the songs to the app...  you can just download them from google drive directly to your Android folders and the app will find them under the Android music folders.  Just multi-select the songs in google drive, tap the three dot in the top corner and select download.

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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions / Re: Pre-game going crazy

« on: May 17, 2019, 09:38:12 pm »

no, you can move songs and players between teams in the walkout section but not between sections.

You can certainly add the same songs to both sections so you should just have to go into the pregame section, tap the add button, and group select all the songs you need in there.

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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions / Re: Pre-game going crazy

« on: May 17, 2019, 01:36:03 pm »

Good to hear...

Emailing the song file, might be a little large so maybe you could put the song file on google drive and just email a share link to it?