loading sounds into a portable MP player?

Sometimes the directions don't line up with the actual product. I wouldn't be surprised if the jack is just for power.  Loading tunes onto a micro usb card might be the only way to get tunes onto the device.

Good luck with it. I bought a similar one a few years back and I don't recall it working well though now I want to dig it out and see if it works.

If it it a cheap charger usb, it may not have anything but power leads.

With a good usb, you should be able to find it in your devices when it's plugged in. You just COPY (or move ) files to it like a memory card, backup disc, etc. In other words; don't expect a music program to open it or anything. Find the files and manually make a copy in the player.  

  I've never seen much difference in them (Ive found half a dozen of those. Nearly always work too)

The sd might need to be inserted; hard to say how big the built in memory might be.  I could also see one of these possibly (or optionally) needing a file(s) to be loaded onto the SD while in another device then having to move the card. 

Oh boy, how will I ever get my $2.31 out of it? 

I have to go buy a micro sd card. I don't have any. The computer does not show anywhere to put a file into yet. I thought I might have the wrong type of cord.

For $2.31 hard to believe it includes onboard memory.  Hence you need a microSD card.  For train applications, I use the smallest/cheapest one I can find since only need a few minutes of sound - $1-$2 on eBay with, say, 128 MB.  One thing I've noticed is if you use a large card with GB of storage, the cheap MP3 players can takes several seconds to read the card before playing the first .MP3 sound file.  For train applications where a trigger starts the sound effect, this startup delay can be a head-scratcher. 

I tell my Alexa to play "Train" sounds

I wonder how I could get them (Amazon?)  to include more train sounds, maybe a steamer chugging???

The Echo Dot Generation 3 has a very good speaker plus you can add a bluetooth speaker for cheap.

Is it time we had a device to run our trains via Alexa?!?!?!?!

stan2004 posted:

For $2.31 hard to believe it includes onboard memory.  Hence you need a microSD card.  For train applications, I use the smallest/cheapest one I can find since only need a few minutes of sound - $1-$2 on eBay with, say, 128 MB.  One thing I've noticed is if you use a large card with GB of storage, the cheap MP3 players can takes several seconds to read the card before playing the first .MP3 sound file.  For train applications where a trigger starts the sound effect, this startup delay can be a head-scratcher. 

Thanks Stan.

I was going to search for your older post, and I never did.

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