USB thumb drives for audio playback

[CyberGus]

FYI, the "BoomBox" folder's sounds (mp3 and wav) did not appear in the horn-replacement sounds when it was on the Lightshow partition. It worked once I moved it to the Music partition, but now it shows up in the Media player lol

 

[65SoYoLO]

Samsung T7 SSD with 4 partitions is the ticket.

1. Sentry - TeslaCam (SSD will hold up well to the constant recording)
2. Music
3. LightShow
4. Boombox

what can you add in the lightshow and boombox partitions? I would like a different noise when the truck is locked. They are all super loud, dont want to wake the neighbors .

 

[CyberGus]

what can you add in the lightshow and boombox partitions? I would like a different noise when the truck is locked. They are all super loud, dont want to wake the neighbors .

Place a file called "LockChime.wav" in the root folder of a USB partition. I used my "MUSIC" partition, I don't know if it will work on any of the others.

Then, in Boombox, you should have a dropdown list for Lock Sounds that includes the choice "USB". Once you select it and test it, the USB drive itself can be removed since the sound is copied. To change to new custom sound, pick something else in the picklist before inserting the updated thumbdrive.

To get a reasonable volume, I used my PC to reduce it by 15db from a "normal" level. I also had to mix it down to mono to stay under the 1MB limit. It must be in WAV format.

 

[65SoYoLO]

Place a file called "LockChime.wav" in the root folder of a USB partition. I used my "MUSIC" partition, I don't know if it will work on any of the others.

Then, in Boombox, you should have a dropdown list for Lock Sounds that includes the choice "USB". Once you select it and test it, the USB drive itself can be removed since the sound is copied. To change to new custom sound, pick something else in the picklist before inserting the updated thumbdrive.

To get a reasonable volume, I used my PC to reduce it by 15db from a "normal" level. I also had to mix it down to mono to stay under the 1MB limit. It must be in WAV format.

what file type do you need for the boombox and lightshow folders?

 

[hridge2020]

 

[65SoYoLO]

ALL day long.

 

[CyberGus]

what file type do you need for the boombox and lightshow folders?

AFAIK only WAV and MP3.

 

[65SoYoLO]

im not having any luck with the lightshow and boom box. tried it several different ways. ?

 

[skinzy]

I've loaded lots of FLAC music files in 24/192 and they sound great!

 

[pricedm]

Ok, I saw that but the sentry mode did not work. I guess I will have to partition the drive.

Yes, partition the drive. Lots of good YouTube vids on this.
Partitions for: Sentry cam (70%), music (20%), light shows (8%), lock sounds (1%)....

Post #15 from @CyberRich - this is the overall design
https://www.cybertruckownersclub.co...b-drives-for-audio-playback.12791/post-316294

 

[SteelMyHeart]

im not having any luck with the lightshow and boom box. tried it several different ways. ?

I just bought a Samsung T7 and partitioned it into Sentry, Boombox and LightShow on a Mac, video for how to do so on Mac is helpful and is in this forum linked already. You have to use
Guid Mac partitioning and first partition the drive in journaled format. Then once partition is complete each of the partitions you make must be formatted back into MS Dos-fat instead of ex-fat if you are using Mac.

Here is mine with all subfolder labels being case sensitive:

Sentry sub folder: TeslaCam, works great

Boombox: would not play my custom lock sound if I put the lock sound in a subfolder labeled Boombox. Once I removed the subfolder and just put the LockChime.wav directly into the partition with no subfolder it worked. When the lock sound was in the boom box subfolder it just showed up as a media file identical to music files. So you may be able to load music using this partition (unorthodox compared to what is posted in this thread but I stumbled onto it accidentally)

LightShow: LightShow subfolder is case sensitive and with the fseq file and mp3 file for star wars the lightshow worked. The StarWars in the file names is case sensitive too so they must be saved as StarWars.

Special thanks to @CyberGus for helping me with this.

 

[65SoYoLO]

I just bought a Samsung T7 and partitioned it into Sentry, Boombox and LightShow on a Mac, video for how to do so on Mac is helpful and is in this forum linked already. You have to use
Guid Mac partitioning and first partition the drive in journaled format. Then once partition is complete each of the partitions you make must be formatted back into MS Dos-fat instead of ex-fat if you are using Mac.

Here is mine with all subfolder labels being case sensitive:

Sentry sub folder: TeslaCam, works great

Boombox: would not play my custom lock sound if I put the lock sound in a subfolder labeled Boombox. Once I removed the subfolder and just put the LockChime.wav directly into the partition with no subfolder it worked. When the lock sound was in the boom box subfolder it just showed up as a media file identical to music files. So you may be able to load music using this partition (unorthodox compared to what is posted in this thread but I stumbled onto it accidentally)

LightShow: LightShow subfolder is case sensitive and with the fseq file and mp3 file for star wars the lightshow worked. The StarWars in the file names is case sensitive too so they must be saved as StarWars.

Special thanks to @CyberGus for helping me with this.

ok got the lockchime to work, I had to repartition the drive with an unnamed volume and put it in that. I cannot even get xlights to work on my surface pro, asks for a fold and will not let me create one and it just closes.

 

[jerhenderson]

I have my Bladerunner 'wallace' clip ready to go.

 

[THEgasMAN]

You may want to try a new USB drive with the conversion plug, some of the cheaper USB drives don't play well with those converter plugs.

I have the same issue. I have tried different storage SSDs. If inserted in the glove box it works fine. In the USB C , it does not see it. The problem is Tesla wants to reformat the drive in the glove box to use it for camera recordings.