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<blockquote data-quote="FishMan123" data-source="post: 1486631" data-attributes="member: 290016"><p>Well I think I have an actual answer for you <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I'm having the same issue. At first I thought it was some type of issue with the music, but I knew it wasn't DRM. But I was getting issues on different songs from different sources with different bitrates and encoding. I couldn't find a pattern.</p><p></p><p>Zombies Run also takes a LONG time to parse your playlist. In trying to shrink down my large playlist, I found that different songs would get flagged as unplayable each time the app parsed my playlist.</p><p></p><p>I kept dividing the playlist to isolate the "bad songs" and suddenly there was no problem. I'm of the opinion that this is a bug in Zombies Run (v 1.5) that presents similar to an array overrun issue. Random songs are reported as unplayable as the list size increases. Once the playlist is down to 31 items or less, I stopped seeing any issues.</p><p></p><p>Other things I tried but didn't have luck with:</p><p>- The "Legacy iPod Player" option plays music just fine, but the game's audio tracks cut out - it just doesn't work.</p><p>- Creating a "smart playlist" in itunes to get a random segment of your big playlist doesn't work. The songs won't reshuffle. The "apple" solution is to include a last played > 30 days restriction in the smart playlist. However the ZR player doesn't update the last played times for the songs!</p><p></p><p>What I finally did was to create a master playlist with all the music on my iPod. Then create 4 smart playlists, each with a 31 song random subset of the master list. Then to shuffle the 4 smart playlists, install this applescript in iTunes:</p><p>[CODE]tell application "iTunes"</p><p> delete tracks of playlist "iPhone 31a"</p><p> delete tracks of playlist "iPhone 31b"</p><p> delete tracks of playlist "iPhone 31c"</p><p> delete tracks of playlist "iPhone 31d"</p><p>end tell[/CODE]</p><p>This will delete the current 31 random tracks and itunes will immediately repopulate them with new random songs. (Then Sync.)</p><p></p><p>For instructions on installing an applescript for itunes, see: <a href="http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/downloadfaq.php" target="_blank">Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes ♫ Download Faq</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FishMan123, post: 1486631, member: 290016"] Well I think I have an actual answer for you :) I'm having the same issue. At first I thought it was some type of issue with the music, but I knew it wasn't DRM. But I was getting issues on different songs from different sources with different bitrates and encoding. I couldn't find a pattern. Zombies Run also takes a LONG time to parse your playlist. In trying to shrink down my large playlist, I found that different songs would get flagged as unplayable each time the app parsed my playlist. I kept dividing the playlist to isolate the "bad songs" and suddenly there was no problem. I'm of the opinion that this is a bug in Zombies Run (v 1.5) that presents similar to an array overrun issue. Random songs are reported as unplayable as the list size increases. Once the playlist is down to 31 items or less, I stopped seeing any issues. Other things I tried but didn't have luck with: - The "Legacy iPod Player" option plays music just fine, but the game's audio tracks cut out - it just doesn't work. - Creating a "smart playlist" in itunes to get a random segment of your big playlist doesn't work. The songs won't reshuffle. The "apple" solution is to include a last played > 30 days restriction in the smart playlist. However the ZR player doesn't update the last played times for the songs! What I finally did was to create a master playlist with all the music on my iPod. Then create 4 smart playlists, each with a 31 song random subset of the master list. Then to shuffle the 4 smart playlists, install this applescript in iTunes: [CODE]tell application "iTunes" delete tracks of playlist "iPhone 31a" delete tracks of playlist "iPhone 31b" delete tracks of playlist "iPhone 31c" delete tracks of playlist "iPhone 31d" end tell[/CODE] This will delete the current 31 random tracks and itunes will immediately repopulate them with new random songs. (Then Sync.) For instructions on installing an applescript for itunes, see: [url=http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/downloadfaq.php]Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes ♫ Download Faq[/url] [/QUOTE]
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