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Music Maker Not Working

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Have just received Music Maker and placed some headers

Loaded sample demo file player_simple and tried to upload to Arduino UNO with Music Maker > error "avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00" is returned

Same demo file player_simple and tried to upload to Arduino UNO without Music Maker > NO ERROR however shield does not work - no sound and NO data is returned via Serial Monitor when the reset button if pressed (yes tried both reset buttons and yes SD card has MP3 files)

Any idea?

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Re: Music Maker Not Working

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Could you post clear pictures of your board and the connections to it?

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Pictures attached as requested

I also tested connections with continuity meter and all are fine

Board was stacked on Aruduino - no other connections were done
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Re: Music Maker Not Working

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Your soldering looks good and we can't think of any reason this should be happening. Let's try with a replacement board.Please email [email protected] with a link to this thread for a replacement let them know you used stacking headers so they can include some.

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Re: Music Maker Not Working

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I had another go at the board - I cleaned the areas between the point just in case there is some conductivity from the soldering flux which may have some contamination which made the flux conductive. I also added a power supply to arduino and previously it was powered just trough USB. I uploaded the sample script and changed it to use the shield. My hopes were not high but wonder of wonders, I got some audio playing from the speakers. I unplugged the power source from the arduino and the audio kept on playing. Rebooted laptop and arduino and just got the files playing again. I do not know but it seems that some contamination between the soldered points could be the culprit of this - please let me know if you have any other idea of what this might have been.

I have uploaded some long tracks - 3 to 5 mins per track. I am using the simple player and it has some controls - when I press any character it is not processed until all files are played - so pause and stop are not working for me while music is playing. Any idea?

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