Serial MP3 Modules with actual track title readback ?

1968neil

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Is anybody aware of a serial Mp3 module that you can read back the track "Title" data.
I have used the DF player and the Tenda style modules but neither gives back the track name just the number.
Any suggestions much appreciated.
 
Hi,

My DF player mini's MP3 directory looks like this:

0001_Fox.mp3
0002_WB_Cartoon1.mp3
0003_Sinfonia_To_Cantata_No_29.MP3
0004_Thin_Lizzy_Whiskey_In_The_Jar.mp3
0005_Kansas_Dust_In_The_Wind.mp3
0006_Light_Flight.mp3
0007_Land_Of_Confusion.mp3

Don't know if that helps...
 
If you send a serial command there is no way to get the Text of the track back from the module....

0x4B Queries the current track of TF card
0x4C Queries the current track of U-Disk

Both commands return the track Number but no Text, i can see no way of retrieving this text string in the command set.
I need to do this in my design so that when a file is selected i can display the track text on an LCD screen.
The track number is not needed, i need the text..
 
You could try to cheat a bit, using an external EEPROM to store disc_name/track_id/track_name.
I used to do this when I built an RFID based player and I wanted to keep track of the number of mp3's in each RFID card.
 
Hi,

The DFPlayer can also read .WAV files (which are "lossless"), so perhaps you could store the Title Text for all the tracks in a small additional "advert"-style File with the Text Data stored in a custom "Audio" format (as was done for the Sinclair and BBC Computers "in the day"). I did actually look at the hardware design for this in a post a few years ago (that happens to include a reference to one of your older posts), but I didn't ever get around to actually building and testing the concept (maybe one day ! ).

Cheers, Alan.
 
Hi Alan,
Ill have a more indepth read later when i leave work.
Id forgotten all about that post back in 21' getting old and memory isnt what it was :)
Ill report back when ive tried the BY version, that should hopefully do the trick !
Regards
Neil
 
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