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Release Notes / Walkout Song DJ iOS version 2.6.22 is available in the app store

« on: July 16, 2023, 09:46:28 pm »

What's new:
- Added an external speaker wakeup option to avoid missing the start of announcements and music for ION and similar speaker models

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Enhancement Requests / Re: MAC compatibility

« on: June 28, 2023, 01:59:21 pm »

I have made an attempt at that using the new catalyst mode in the m1/m2 macs, but the emulation of the iOS music player is very poor... you cannot play songs from the cloud, the player does not report the current playback time so the app can't stop the song on configured duration, the volume control doesn't work, etc.   I will keep an eye on the catalyst interface as new Mac versions are released to see if any of that gets fixed.  Until then it isn't really an option for me to support.

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Issue Reporting / Re: Bluetooth Delay

« on: June 24, 2023, 06:04:28 am »

The wake-up speaker option was actually already released a week or so ago on the Android version of the app.  If you get the latest update, you should see the option in the audio section of the settings page of the app.  Please let us know if that option works for you.

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Issue Reporting / Re: Music plays randomly

« on: June 01, 2023, 09:57:14 pm »

I have never heard a report of random music playing from the app in the 10 years the app has been released so you must have some pretty unique situation going there.  Not really sure what to suggest to figure out what is going on.  If the song title isn't showing in the top right of the app, then it really doesn't seem likely that the app is actually triggering that playback.  It seems more likely that some other app or maybe the Apple Music app is going rogue and playing things. 

Are the random songs actual songs you have added and configured in the app?  Are they songs in your library on the device?  What type of communication link do you use with the audio equipment?  Any chance someone else is taking control of that equipment?  Have you ever heard the oddity when not connected with external equipment?

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Issue Reporting / Re: Bluetooth Delay

« on: May 30, 2023, 02:27:56 pm »

I have an Android beta prepared that should address this issue.  The update has a new "Send external speaker wakeup" option on the settings.  If that is enabled, the app will check if the current audio route is through an external speaker.  If so, it will send a 1.5 second inaudible audio chunk to the speaker before playing announcements or songs to get the speaker ready to play.

Beta for this version 2.5.38 should start today 5/30/23 and anyone with the app installed can email walkoutsongdj@gmail.com to be added to the beta participant list.

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Issue Reporting / Re: Bluetooth Delay

« on: May 25, 2023, 05:25:08 am »

The other major app uses two tap hacks to work around the issues with these devices.

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Issue Reporting / Re: Bluetooth Delay

« on: May 21, 2023, 07:31:53 am »

The ION pathfinder is still in transit... FedEx seems to have lost track of it 😡.  Hopefully, they will figure out where it is and get it here early next week.  In the meantime, I had a thought on a possible workaround that might tell me how likely my solution would work.  I think you could download a white noise mp3 file (easy to find on Google), create a dummy player, assign it the white noise for a song, turn its announcement to none, and then tap that player briefly before tapping the real player.  That should allow you a simple way to wake the speaker if it's been long enough for it to go to sleep.

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Issue Reporting / Re: Bluetooth Delay

« on: May 15, 2023, 12:43:21 pm »

What model of bluetooth speaker are you using? 

I am working on a solution for some very poorly designed bluetooth speakers that go to sleep very quickly and require several seconds of actual audio signal to wake up.  For these specific speakers, an aux cord is not even a solution because the sleep and wakeup issue happens with aux or bluetooth.  Android actually does a pretty good job with bluetooth and the aux cord recommendation is not really applicable.  I am currently waiting on delivery of an ION pathfinder so I can test the solution.  Luckily, it seems there are thousands of these pieces of garbage speakers available in either open box or used condition because of how often they are returned.

It's a pretty tricky implementation because I have to send some audio signal to the speaker for the wakeup to occur, but it cannot be audible so the audience won't hear it, and it is only applicable for these poorly designed speakers so I have to make a toggle on or off in the settings.

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Issue Reporting / Re: Play and fade greyed out

« on: May 15, 2023, 12:30:19 pm »

Anytime this occurs with Apple music songs, I would recommend a force kill of the Apple music app as that is the software that is actually playing the music and reporting playback position to the Walkout Song App.

Can you do a share data from the settings page of the app and send to walkoutsongdj@gmail.com so I can see I can duplicate the issue here?

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Issue Reporting / Re: Play and fade greyed out

« on: May 14, 2023, 07:56:59 pm »

Then that just sounds like hiccups from the Apple Music player... it can get a bit wonky sometimes and does not give Walkout Song DJ good information.

Couple questions to help diagnose:
How often does this happen?
Is it with specific songs or random?
Do you have all the songs downloaded to the device?
Did it start this behavior recently and was not doing this before?
Have you tried force killing the Apple Music app and then restarting it?
Do you have the latest Walkout Song DJ version?

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Issue Reporting / Re: Play and fade greyed out

« on: May 14, 2023, 04:32:49 pm »

That would suggest that the app thinks the song has already stopped playing for some reason.  That is not normal and I've had no other reports of that.  What type of music source are you using, Apple Music or imported files?

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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions / Re: Fading/Blending Pregame music

« on: May 12, 2023, 08:53:41 pm »

That is not yet supported in the app.  In theory, it could be done with the Android version or with imported music files in the Apple version, but it could not be done with Apple Music songs due to limitations with Apple's music player.  I can mix announcements with Apple music but not music with music.

Funny, you're the first person that has asked about that in the 10 years the app has been released.

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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions / Re: Text to Speech announcement low

« on: May 09, 2023, 11:15:51 am »

I'm not sure I understand your question... text to speech is not a file.  It is a function provided by your phone to read things for you.  What different text to speech file are you referring to?

On the Apple music song volume...  There isn't much control of that either so I'm not sure how that is coming out at higher volume than the text to speech.  You could check in your settings app under music to see if you have any EQ setting that is making it too loud.  You also could check in that same section that the Sound Check is on.

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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions / Re: Text to Speech announcement low

« on: May 09, 2023, 10:31:35 am »

If that volume control for speech on the settings page of the app is all the way to the right, then the text to speech is as loud as it can go.  On all devices I have tested with, that is a pretty good volume match with the music.  If that is not the case, perhaps your music volume may be too loud.  What source of music are you using?  Apple music or file imports?

Announcement files are usually files you get from a voiceover professional that are emailed to you.  You tap the file attachment in the email and share it to walkout songs to import it.

There are thousands of voiceover freelancers on fiverr.com you could choose from.  Most are pretty reasonably priced.  There is one that most people are happy with mentioned in this thread:

https://upallnitesoftware.com/forum/index.php?topic=244.msg788#msg788

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Allow access to a shared config file in the cloud

« on: May 04, 2023, 08:13:31 pm »

That is already on the todo list, but thanks for confirming the need!