Trouble with Showtime director (MP3 Player) Not Playing at all

[Todd Himmelberg]

I have been running a 1602 MP3 system for several years now adding controllers each year. Having trouble this year with songs playing. Changed all my sequences this year. Bought some from Light-O-Rama and some from Wowlights and modified them. When I loaded the SD card the first time everything worked fine. As we were finishing up the job we realized only three of the six songs were playing. I took the card out and checked it out. All the files were loaded on it. I erased everything and did it again. Same results. Just hooked up the laptop and everything worked fine. The next day i tried again and nothing would play at all. So I have it running on the laptop now and everything works fine. Is my MP3 plaver going bad? Software Problems? Please Help! S2 v2.3.8 Advanced

[bisquit476]

Try reflashing the firmware. I doubt the player is bad. Is the card an SD card or an SDHC?

[Todd Himmelberg]

The card is an SD card. Used for a couple of years. Tried another card also to no avail. I updated the firmware also with no results.

[Todd Himmelberg]

Try reflashing the firmware. I doubt the player is bad. Is the card an SD card or an SDHC?

It is an SD Card. I updated the firmware. What is reflashing?

[Todd Himmelberg]

Okay! I changed back to the original firmware (3.2 I think). I got my same 3 songs out of 6 to work again. So now I have to figure out why the other 3 songs don't work. Downloaded from the same place. Changed the same things in the sequences. Any Ideas?

[Jim Hans]

Is it just skipping the other 3 songs or is there silence and no lights? Is it always the same 3 songs? Is the audio for all 6 songs MP3? Are all 6 audio files 128 fixed bit rate?

[Todd Himmelberg]

Its just skipping over the songs. 6 musical animations total with 1 minute all lights on in between songs. It just skips over the 3 songs and keeps cycling through the 3 songs. I am baffled.

[Todd Himmelberg]

Alright! Just figured out that the 3 songs that are not working have audio files from Amazon with higher bit rates. How do i change those to 127?

[Don]

Use Audacity to make it a 128k CBR file.

See this PDF from LOR. It will show you how to use Audacity to make a Constant Bit Rate MP3 out of the file.

[Todd Himmelberg]

Alright I will give that a try. Thanks everybody for your help. So the wrong bit rate will completly screw up that song from playing in the showtime director?

[Surfing4Dough]

So the wrong bit rate will completly screw up that song from playing in the showtime director?

It may or may not. Would eliminate the possibility by converting them (and only to MP3s for the directors to work properly).