In the last Blogs I presented a File Based Versatile MP3 Player and later a A Versatile but Simple Arduino Streaming MP3 Player using my Arduino Audio Tools Library. In this Blog, I will demonstrate how easy it is to convert it into a AAC player. I also show how to control the volume. So far I was usually using an ESP32 to test the sketch. This time I switch to the cheaper ESP8266! The Read more…

In the last blogs I presented a Versatile MP3 Player and then a Basic Streaming MP3 Player using my Arduino Audio Tools Library. If you expect a Versatile Streaming MP3 Player, you will not be disappointed. All the functionality related to the AudioPlayer class which was described in the Versatile MP3 Player Blog is still valid. In our sketch, we just need to replace the AudioSourceSdFat with an AudioSourceURL. In order to support navigation we Read more…

Yesterday I was finally resolving some stability issues in my URLStream class and I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight that it is pretty simple to build a simple mp3 streaming audio player using the Stream API of my Arduino Audio Tools library. You just need to copy the result from an URLStream to your output stream: The Arduino Sketch In this example Arduino sketch I am streaming BBC World Service to the analog Read more…

It is pretty simple to build a simple mp3 audio player using the Stream API of my Arduino Audio Tools library: A SD file is a subclass of an Arduino Stream, so all you need to do is to copy from the file to the desired output stream. when we use the EncodedAudioStream as output, we can support different audio formats we can add a status flag to halt and continue the processing Finally we Read more…

Today I was testing my Arduino Audio Tools project with PlatformIO on an ESP32 because I was really looking forward to be able to use a proper Debugger. Unfortunately I was stumbling over the fact that, while Arduino is using now the latest IDF version, the PlatformIO ESP32 Arduino implementation was still using an old version. Therefore I needed to add some additional preprocessor #if statements to handle the differences. Anyhow, I committed the corrections Read more…

Quite some time ago I was blogging about the hw-627 motor controller. So I was wondering if I could also use this module as well to play music and drive a small speaker. This would be cool because we could get stereo output since the module supports two output devices. Here is a simple Arduino sketch which using my Audio Tools Library with an ESP32 Microcontroller: The Arduino Sketch #include “AudioTools.h” #include “AudioCodecs/CodecMP3Helix.h” #include “BabyElephantWalk60_mp3.h” Read more…

I have extended my arduino-audio-tools project to provide access to MP3 Meta Data. ID3 is the metadata container which is most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself. Both versions of ID3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2) are supported. I currently however only provide the information that is available in Read more…