DIGITAL SOUND CARD FOR K-LINE STARLIGHT DINER

Do you currently have a soundboard?  It can probably be repaired by one of these very helpful and smart people on the forum here. If you don't have one that doesn't work I do. I cannot figure out what is wrong with it but if you need it then it's yours.

Best way to upgrade sound for this diner is scrap the old board and purchase an adafruit sound board & audio amplifier.  The sound board allows you to load multiple audio files (.wav and .ogg) from your PC and add multiple trigger buttons to trigger the different sound files. The board comes in a 2MB and 16MB version.  The 16MB version allows you to store more sound files.  You can reuse the speaker and connect to the audio amplifier.

https://www.amazon.com/Adafrui...aps%2C188&sr=8-2

https://www.amazon.com/Adafrui...aps%2C188&sr=8-3

https://www.amazon.com/Audio-D...aps%2C188&sr=8-6

You also need this board to convert AC voltage to 5 VDC to power the sound board and amplifier.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This is a fun upgrade project that allows you to load your favorite 50's music and voices!

You always could buy the internals from the bluetooth radio tower and install them. That's my plan if mine ever dies.

Another possible option.

Finally, the Universal MP3 Sound Board Has Arrived

@UnclePeteRR posted:

Looking  for help replacing for digital source that would have facsimile of this rock n roll ditty. ...

Does anyone know the name of the song, ditty, or whatever?

I played the sound into my "identify this song" feature on Google and it came up empty.  It's usually remarkably good at quickly identifying obscure musical snippets.

When viewing your linked youtube video this one also came up which has less background audio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRstzc120FI

I converted the video to MP3 format (attached) and edited it down to one instance of the "ditty."  It's about 15 seconds long.  From what I can tell, this 15 second sound repeats over and over with a gap of a couple seconds.

So if you can't identify/find the digital "source" I suppose you could find someone who has the diner and will record a better audio or video...and convert that to a digital format that your chosen sound module can play.  As others show, there's no shortage of inexpensive hardware modules or gadgets that would work.  I figure there will be some wiring retro-fit hassle depending on if/how you want to re-use the existing speaker, control switches, power wires, etc.

Here you go! A very catchy tune!