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Step 8The SD card Drive Dilema
One of the MP3 player features that was displaced on the side was the SD card slot. I thought that wouldn't be a problem I would just install one on the side of the boombox next to the USB port.
Well I never did get that part figured out. Any help here would be appreciated. I checked and rechecked the wiring but never got my extension to work. I used a micro SD card adapter to go into the card slot on the MP3 player. I drilled holes in the connectors and soldered wires to run to a New card slot for the exterior of the boombox. Essentially this mod was an extension cable adaptor. I tested the setup. All the connections were wired correctly from the adaptor to the New card slot. But I couldn't get the new card reader to work before final install so I gave up.
My final solution was to hack open a spot in the cassette carriage and deck to get to the MP3 player card slot. Fortunately the Zen is compatible with an 8 gig card. Most MP3 players only allow a 2 gig. Needless to say that 8 gigs lets you store a lot of music.
Unfortunately the Zen I purchased was a refurbished unit. Not long after I started using it I had a miserable time updating firmware or loading anything on the actual MP3 player itself. This means I have to crack the boombox any time I want to add or change music.
Well I never did get that part figured out. Any help here would be appreciated. I checked and rechecked the wiring but never got my extension to work. I used a micro SD card adapter to go into the card slot on the MP3 player. I drilled holes in the connectors and soldered wires to run to a New card slot for the exterior of the boombox. Essentially this mod was an extension cable adaptor. I tested the setup. All the connections were wired correctly from the adaptor to the New card slot. But I couldn't get the new card reader to work before final install so I gave up.
My final solution was to hack open a spot in the cassette carriage and deck to get to the MP3 player card slot. Fortunately the Zen is compatible with an 8 gig card. Most MP3 players only allow a 2 gig. Needless to say that 8 gigs lets you store a lot of music.
Unfortunately the Zen I purchased was a refurbished unit. Not long after I started using it I had a miserable time updating firmware or loading anything on the actual MP3 player itself. This means I have to crack the boombox any time I want to add or change music.
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Sep 20, 2009. 3:03 PM
jerkey
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jerkey
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I believe the problem you are experiencing with the SD card slot is - you can't extend those wires! There is high-speed data going back and forth across them, and any wire you add will scramble that communication with the Zen, and it won't work. Experiment and try shortening the wires, or see if it still works if you put it back the way it was. If it doesn't, maybe it got killed. If it does work, it's probably the wire length - maybe you could get away with a couple of inches?
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Sep 22, 2009. 5:04 PMKepster (author)
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Yay! Someone with an SD card slot answer! I don't know of anyone who has tried to do this type of mod with the SD card. The idea is to use SD card kind of like old school cassette tapes only you can have a whole huge collection instead of 40 mins of music. The only way to find out what will actually work is experiment I guess. I think maybe I'll try to modify an SD card reader or something along those lines. Maybe experiment with different extension cables.
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