Remote App not playing Playlists

I can't use the Remote app to play playlists. I believe I was able to a few weeks ago, but I think this problem popped up after the 2.1 update (not sure, though). Every time I attempt to play an individual or shuffle a playlist, I receive this message:
"An unknown error occurred. Please check your library and try again."
I've reinstalled the app already but that didn't seem to change anything. Any suggestions?

Check out this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1644475
That should do it for you.

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