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Thanks for the feedback. That sounds like a bug. If you see the two quotes and didn't see the tabs you definitely weren't playing anything. Specifically it sounds like we failed to load the song data, so you don't really see anything at all.

This is typically a momentary issue. If you want to give it another try you can go back to the track or song selection page and try again. That generally clears the problem up.

(The problem is that data file wasn't fully flushed to disk when the player tried to open it. If you give it a second and try again it generally works.)

If the file happens to be very large or the network connection is slow you might see this more often. Also if you are a little more leisurely about going from the track-selection page to the player this is less likely to happen.

Worst case scenario is that the data file was somehow corrupted when being written to the cache. That will clear itself out eventually, or you could clear the cache from the settings panel, or try another song if you are just playing around.

I know this seems like a problem that should be easy to fix, but it's been a little bit of a whack-a-mole problem to address all the edge cases. I'm sorry you ran into this, but fortunately it's almost always a temporary glitch.



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