Papa Soundie Unable to get anything to play

Sensors Sound & Audio
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Hello,

I have a papa soundie and noisy cricket combined to play an audio file.

My set up is as follows:

Papa Soundie:

VIN and GRND tied into bread board + and -

3.3v bread board power supply on the breadboard.

L and R audio going out to to the Cricket L and R in pins

SD card formatted to FAT32 with one audio file labeled AUDIO00.OGG and is an OGG file from the converter found on the tutorial. Audio file plays fine from the SD card on my laptop when opened.

Used the FTDI to upload the tutorial code that loops the audio files every 5 seconds, upload successfully uploaded,

Cricket:

3.3v and GND tied to bread board + and - respectively

L and R In coming from the soundie

L and MONO out going to the Spark Fun Thin Speaker - 0.5W

Bridged the Mono spot on the back and the mono sub as per the tutorial

Powered everything up and no audio, I have tried multiple example sketches, Ive tried hooking a self powered speaker into the 3.5mm out, The cricket is online and if you touch the pins on the back i can hear feedback at the speaker so i know the volume and speaker are both working.

I am lost as to why i cant get audio going.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Bumping this. Really hoping someone can help me from the Sparkfun team.

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Hi there BB.

How are you triggering the audio file to play?

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TS-Chris:
Hi there BB.

How are you triggering the audio file to play?

The tutorial code just simply rotates audio files every 15 seconds so I am not using any physical connection to trigger it.

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TS-Chris:
Hi there BB.

How are you triggering the audio file to play?

Hello,

I know this has been awhile since posted but im still running into this issue. I have to build 3 of these devices for a customer and im really struggling here with a deadline coming up in 4 weeks.

Can you please help me diagnose whats going on?

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Thanks for reaching out to us on this.

The problem might be that the code being used calls for 12 audio files - if there aren’t 12 present on the SD card, that might be the problem. Try adding 12 Numbered files SEQUENTIALLY (Audio00.ogg through Audio011.ogg, you can just make copies of your current file and rename them)

Or edit the code to utilize fewer audio files.

Hope this helps, and happy sparking!