SparkFun Electronics Comments

Laslarailas on DEV-12660 - SparkFun MP3 Player Shield

2016-11-04T20:22:15-06:00

Hello the guys says that i burn the shield but I do exactly steps mentioned on the documentation. Can you replace the shield?

Laslarailas on DEV-12660 - SparkFun MP3 Player Shield

2016-11-02T10:07:52-06:00

Thankyou, I will send an emails to tech support.

CF on DEV-12660 - SparkFun MP3 Player Shield

2016-11-01T20:41:34-06:00

Sorry to hear you’re having trouble!

This may be repairable. Shoot an email over to tech support along with some photos of your board and we will see what we can do for you.

Laslarailas on DEV-12660 - SparkFun MP3 Player Shield

2016-11-01T11:19:21-06:00

Hello Sparkfun friends!

I bought this shield, I need to amplify the sound so I followed the steps outlined in the hookup guide and tried to reconfigure the jumpers SJ3, SJ4 and SJ5 as is described on that document.

When I tried to reconfigure the jumpers, SJ4 jumper contact went off the PCB. In addition when I suck the default blobs of SJ3 his track got up.

You could give me a solution? Or I invested almost $ 40 to throw them away? I hope you can give me a solution. I use a soldering iron of 40W and I am always very careful when I work with my circuits, I swear to you it was not a misuse of the tools. Thanks.

Nate on DEV-12660 - SparkFun MP3 Player Shield

2016-10-24T12:55:36-06:00

No worries. This IC fabricates the sounds directly. It’s not loading waveforms, it’s generating them mathematically. No RAM or flash needed. You just ask it to give you a C note from a Violin and it does its best to generate a Violin C. You can’t add your own instruments as far as I know.

Customer #843654 on DEV-12660 - SparkFun MP3 Player Shield

2016-09-14T19:51:23-06:00

Sorry, new to embedded systems. Where do the General MIDI sounds come from? Are they onboard? If not, how does it find the waveforms? Can they just be on flash or do they have to be in RAM? And can I add my own waveforms? Thanks.

Customer #786548 on DEV-12660 - SparkFun MP3 Player Shield

2016-03-17T06:59:34-06:00

Will the MP3 player be able to play multiple files at the same time? or perhaps a few seconds apart from one another depending on the input signal triggering the files to be played?

Hope somebody could advice me on this!

//Update: The music board that Sparkfun carries that can play multiple files at one time is the WAV Trigger: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13660

Nate on DEV-12660 - SparkFun MP3 Player Shield

2016-01-20T08:58:02-07:00

I believe the SPI pins on a Due and Mega are different vs an Uno. You will need to connect the ISP connector on the Mega/Due to the 2x3 pin header on the shield.

DragonShadesX on DEV-12660 - SparkFun MP3 Player Shield

2016-01-14T14:12:53-07:00

How did you get it to work? I had to go and comment out some lines in the SFEMP3 library (calls to cli() and sei(), disable and enable interrupts) before it would compile for a DUE, and now I get an error message running the test sketch saying that it can’t access the SD card.

Customer #27635 on DEV-12660 - SparkFun MP3 Player Shield

2015-07-17T00:15:22-06:00

Aaaarrrggghhh! I put this MP3 player on top of the DUE, and could not get it to work (2 weeks trying). I then bought an UNO, and it worked fine. The difference? The DUE defaults pin 4 as an input with a pull up. Pin 4 is wired to the GPIO1 on the VS-1053B, which (I think) was putting it in MIDI mode. From the datasheet: “If GPIO0 is low and GPIO1 is high, Real-Time MIDI mode is entered.”

Setting pin 4 as an output, and driving low made it work!

Hope this helps someone.