SYC AR-MP3SHIELD User manual

Arduino MP3 Shield User Guide
Instruction
Arduino MP3 Shield is a high quality MP3 module, supporting standard MP3 and WAV format audio files. It also supports three kinds
of storage devices, including an onboard SPI-Flash, external SD Card and U-Disk.
AR-MP3SHIELD
PLACA MP3 PARA ARDUINO CON USB Y SD
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The Arduino MP3 Shield has an onboard 3W Class-D stereo audio amplifier which could drive 4ohm load such as loudspeaker.
The Arduino MP3 Shield has seven buttons and a UART interface, that is to say user has two ways to control the module flexibly. The
UART interface is connected to the Arduino hardware UART by default. Since most Arduino boards have only one UART interface, this
module’s UART interface can be redefined to Arduino D7 (TX) and D8 (RX) through the jumpers on board. With SoftSerial lib, Arduino
could also send data to this module.
We tested with 8G SDHC card and 16G U-disk. It works in perfect compatibility. We haven’t tested larger SD and U-disk yet.
Feature
Plug in and play for Arduino
Control by Serial UART interface or keys onboard.
Directly drive 32ohm headset.
On-board Audio Amplifier to drive 3W/4Ω external loudspeaker.
32 levels adjustable volume.
Support FAT16/FAT32 file system.
Support up to SD/SDHC card and U-Disk.
On board 64MBit SPI-FLASH.
Support copying audio files from SD card or U-Disk to SPI-FLASH.
Supporting Sleep Mode.
Support 16K~320Kbps MP3 files and 8K~44.1KHz sampling rate WAV files (SPI-FLASH only supports MP3 format)
Parameter
Power Supply: 4.5V~5.5V, typically 5V.
Interface: UART (5V TTL) and 7 buttons.
Size: 47mm x 53mm.
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LED
There are 2 LEDs on the board.
Power indicating: the LED is always on when power is supplied.
State indicating: LED is on when playing music, blinking when copying files to onboard SPI-FLASH.
Function Description
On board Audio Amplifier could drive up to 3W/4Ωexternal loudspeaker. Infact, we test it with 5W/8Ωloudspeker, and it works well.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
4
5
6
VCC5V
SOFT_SERIAL0
SOFT_SERIAL1
SOFT_SERIAL0
SOFT_SERIAL1
MCU_RXD
TX
RX
MCU_TXD
GND
0/RX
1/TX
2
~3
4
~5
~6
7
8
~9
~10
~11
12
13
GND
AREF
SDA
SCL
A0
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
VIN
GND
GND
5V
3V3
RESET
IOREF
NC
JP1
SHND
JP2
JP3
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By default, the RX Jumper and TX Jumper are connected to hardware UART pins on Arduino. You could change it with soldering tool. If
you bridge the lower two pads, Arduino D7 and D8 need to serve as RX and TX. You could find more information in latter description.
The amplifier could be controlled by Arduino. By default, it is enabled and not controlled by Arduino. If you need, please bright the
Amplifier Control pads. More information will be explained later.
CONFIGURATION DESCRIPTION
Arduino MP3 Shield configuration is stored in a file named “iSound.mp3”(Note that in fact it is not an audio file but a txt file. You
could open it with software such as Notepad). The format of the “iSound.mp3”is as bellows:
spxx//
clxx//
cfxx xx xx xx//
Details:
spxx// Play settings when powered on.sp must be lower case letters, xx must be 00 or 01. 00 means “Do not play automatically
when powered on”.01 means “Play automatically when power on”.
clxx// Play Mode Settings.cl must be lower case letters, xx must be 00, 01, 02 or 03. 00 means Play single music, 01 means Repeat
track, 02 means Repeat all, and 03 means Play randomly.
cfxx xx xx xx// User-defined data. User can read these four bytes data through UART interface. Refer to Get user-defined data.
“iSound.mp3”is a file where you could configure the Arduino MP3 Shield. Follow the steps below to configure it:
Create a text file named “iSound.mp3”on your PC. Usually open the Notepad in Windows (on Mac or Linux, see the note), create a
new file, enter the data in the rule above, and save as mp3 file.
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Copy the “iSound.mp3”to U-Disk or SD card. Make sure that iSound.mp3 is the last file copied to U-Disk or SD card. This could ensure
that at next step, iSound.mp3 file is the last file which is written to the flash.
Use COPY function to download music files and the “iSound.mp3”configuration file to the flash. All configuration information is saved
in the SPI-FLASH. See COPY MUSIC FROM SD-CARD/ U-DISK TO SPI-FLASH
“iSound.mp3”Example:
We need configure our Arduino MP3 Shield to let it “Play automatically when powered on”and “Repeat all music”and save our
user-defined 0x12 0x34 0x56 0x78. We need edit iSound.mp3 like this:
sp01//
cl00//
cf12 34 56 78//
Note: for MAC or Linux users, there will be a problem. EOL (End of line) symbol on Windows OS is “\r\n”. But on MAC or Linux, it is
“\n”. The following is an example showing the difference. We make the newline EOL visible in Notepad++
On Windows OS:
On MAC/Linux:
The iSound.mp3 should end with a Windows EOL symbol. That is“\r\n”. We recommend Notepad++. You could change the EOL
symbol.
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COPY MUSIC FROM SD-CARD/ U-DISK TO SPI-FLASH
The Arduino MP3 Shield support 3 kinds of storage media, SD card, U-Disk and SPI FLASH. The three kinds of memory have the
following priority (High first): SPI-FLASH, SD card and U-Disk.
There are two methods to copy music from SD-CARD/U-DISK: through COPY button, or UART interface.
Copy Music through COPY button
Follow the following 5 steps:
1. Create the “iSound.mp3”configuration file, copy music files to SD card/ U-DISK, then copy ”iSound.mp3”to SD card/ U-DISK(this
can make sure the “iSound.mp3”is the last file in SD card/U-DISK).
2. Power off Arduino MP3 Shield.
3. Press COPY button and hold.
4. Power on Arduino MP3 Shield, and hold COPY button for about five seconds until the state indicating LED starts blinking.
5. Release the Copy key and wait state indicating LED turns off.
In fact, the configuration file could be stored in SPI-FLASH until you download another “iSound.mp3”file to it. That means, you only
have to download the configuration file once. However, each time you download music files to SPI-FLASH, old music files in the SPI
will be erased.
Copy Music through UART command
You could also copy files to SPI-FLASH by sending command via UART Interface
See Copy File from SD card to SPI FLASH and Copy File from U-Disk to SPI FLASH.
NOTE
1. The music files copied to the SPI-FLASH has the same order with those in the SD card/U-Disk.
2. The SPI-FLASH only has 8MB space. Each time you copy files to SPI-FLASH, the first file will be copied anyway, even it is larger
than 8MB, of course resulting in bad file in the SPI-FLASH. However, if there is not enough space for the second file, it will not
be copied into SPI-FLASH. For example, we have many music files in the SD card, more than 8MB, the first file size is 3MB,
and the second is 4MB, and the third one is 2MB. When we do copy operation, only the first two file can be copied to the
flash. You can send command to check the file numbers in the SPI-Flash. See Check Total Number of SPI FLASH Files .
Music Order
All the music files must be stored in the root directory of SD or U-disk. Any file name is not restricted as long as it obeys FAT file
system.
FAT32 file system has a rule. File order is decided by the file address. File which is created or copied into file system earlier has a
higher priority. The Arduino MP3 Shield plays music in that order. To control the music order in which Arduino MP3 Shield plays, we
need to control the order in which the music files are saved in SD or U-disk. For example, you could save music one by one to SD card.
You save B.mp3 first and then save A.mp3. By default, it will play B.mp3 fore A.mp3 file.
There is a simple way to save music as desired in bulk:
Create a folder on PC and copy all music files to the folder. Add prefix 0000~9999 to the file names like 0000-God is a girl.mp3, 0001-
Baby.mp3, 0002-Set Fire To the Rain.mp3 and so on. Then reorder the music by name. Select all files (CTRL+A may help), then copy
(CTRL+C may help), and paste these file to the SD card/U-disk. In this way, the music files will be stored in the desired order.
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KEY
Standard Key
KEY
OPERATION
FUNCTION
PLAY
SHORT
Play/Pause music
LONG
Stop playing
PREV
SHORT
Previous music
LONG
Fast forward (when playing music)
NEXT
SHORT
Next music
LONG
Fast backward(when plying music)
VOL-
SHORT
Volume -
LONG
Volume- fast
VOL+
SHORT
Volume +
LONG
Volume + fast
COPY and SLEEP
The two bronze head button on the upper left corner are COPY and SLEEP button.
COPY Button
The basis function of COPY button is copy music files to SPI-FLASH. For more information, please refer to Copy Music through COPY
button.
Another function of this COPY button is to play next. It functions while this module is the stage of playing music.
SLEEP
Arduino MP3 Shield can sleep or wake up by SLEEP button.
SLEEP: Press SLEEP button and hold 2 more seconds.
WAKE UP: Press SLEEP button to generate a high level pulse to wakeup Arduino MP3 Shield.
JUMPERS
On the bottom of the Arduino MP3 Shield, there are three jumpers, TX Jumper, RX Jumper, and Amplifier Control Jumper. They are
used to select alternate function of Arduino MP3 Shield.
TX and RX Jumper
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By default, the Arduino MP3 Shield connects Arduino board with hardware UART through the jumper. It is very easy to program if the
hardware UART is used. However, this might cause problems while programming the Arduino with this MP3 shield on it. Since
programming will use the hardware UART interface while it is occupied by the MP3 shield, you may get errors and fail to upload code.
So in some cases, Softserial control is useful. To change the connection, dis-bridge upper two pads and bridge the two below. Then on
this module, D7 becomes TX, D8 becomes RX. While programming with SoftSerial library on Arduino, Arduino D7 should serve as
RX and Arduino D8 as TX.
Now SoftSerial-controlling code is in our library. You could find the example.
Software Serial Hardware Serial
Amplifier Control
Amplifier Control pin is used to enable or disable the on board amplifier. By default, the amplifier is enabled, and the control pin is
disconnected. To control the amplifier, bridge the two pads of the Amplifier Control Jumper in the picture above. Then the control pin
is connected to Arduino D9. Set D9 high to enable the on board amplifier, low to shutdown the amplifier.
Command Description
Through UART interface, user can send command to select music, select storage, set play mode, inter-cut music, music combination
play and so on.
UART Configuration
UART setting:
Baud Rate: 9600bps
Parity bit: None
Start bit: 1
Data bit: 8
Stop bit: 1
Command Format
START
LENGTH
COMMAND
PARAMETER
END
0x7E
0x7E
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NOTE: LENGTH value is the total count of areas including LENGTH, COMMAND and PARAMETER.
Writing Command
Writing command means commands which tell Arduino MP3 Shield to do something. After each command executed correctly, the
command code will be returned.
Play SD Card File
Run this command to play selected SD card file.
START
LENGTH
COMMAND
TRACKS HIGH
BYTE
TRACKS LOW
BYTE
END
0x7E
0x04
0xA0
XX
XX
0x7E
TRACKS HIGH BYTE and TRACKS LOW BYTE are HEX numbers. They refer to the music file which you want to reply. This is not the file
name, but the file’s order number. We have explained the file order above. For example, if you want to play the second music,
TRACKS HIGH BYTE is 00, and TRACKS LOW BYTE is 02.
Play SPI FLASH File
Run this command to play selected SPI FLASH file.
START
LENGTH
COMMAND
TRACKS HIGH
BYTE
TRACKS LOW
BYTE
END
0x7E
0x04
0xA1
XX
XX
0x7E
TRACKS HIGH BYTE and TRACKS LOW BYTE are the same with 0xA0 command.
Play U-Disk File
Run this command to play selected U-Disk file.
START
LENGTH
COMMAND
TRACKS HIGH
BYTE
TRACKS LOW
BYTE
END
0x7E
0x04
0xA2
XX
XX
0x7E
TRACKS HIGH BYTE and TRACKS LOW BYTE are the same with 0xA0 command.
Pause OR Play
Run this command to switch between pause and play.
START
LENGTH
COMMAND
END
0x7E
0x02
0xA3
0x7E
Stop Playing
Run this command to stop playing.
START
LENGTH
COMMAND
END
0x7E
0x02
0xA4
0x7E
Next Music
Run this command to play next music.
START
LENGTH
COMMAND
END
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0x7E
0x02
0xA5
0x7E
Previous Music
Run this command to play previous music.
START
LENGTH
COMMAND
END
0x7E
0x02
0xA6
0x7E
Set Volume
Run this command to set volume.
START
LENGTH
COMMAND
VOLUME LEVEL
END
0x7E
0x02
0xA7
0x00~0x1F
0x7E
The volume value is between 0x00~0x1f.
Set Play Mode
Run this command to set play mode.
START
LENGTH
COMMAND
PARAMETER
END
0x7E
0x02
0xA9
0x00 Single Play
0x01 Repeat single music
0x02 Repeat all
0x03 Play random
0x7E
Parameter:
0x00: Play one music and stop
0x01: Repeat playing one music
0x02: Repeat playing all music
0x03: Play music randomly
We have introduced the iSound.mp3 file to configure the module. What is the difference? Well, configuration in iSound.mp3 file will
be loaded each time while this module is powered on. It means that configuration in iSound.mp3 will be saved after powered off. But
the setting by 0xA9 command will not be kept while powered off.
Copy File from SD card to SPI FLASH
Run this command to copy file from SD card to SPI Flash.
START
LENGTH
COMMAND
PARAMETER
END
0x7E
0x03
0xAA
0x00
0x7E
This command will try to copy all the files in SD card to SPI FLASH.
The Arduino MP3 Shield will return 0xAA immediately after receiving this command correctly. At the same time the BUSY LED blinks.
If copy successfully, it returns 0xAA 0x00. If failed then return 0xAA 0x01. After copy finished, BUSY LED turn off. That is to say, in a
successful copy operation, you should receive 0xAA 0xAA 0x00.
Copy File from U-Disk to SPI FLASH
Run this command to copy file from SD card to SPI Flash.
START
LENGTH
COMMAND
PARAMETER
END
0x7E
0x03
0xAB
0x00
0x7E
This command will try to copy all the files in U-disk to SPI FLASH.
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