markondej/fm_transmitter

How to add music

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luke1310 commented

Hey guys, I'm just learning a lot about FM Radio and the Raspberry. Could someone please tell me how to add the wav. Files to the pi? I know it is explained in the read me, but i don't get it :(

markondej commented

WAV is simply sound file format, used since... well I'm sure it was used by Windows 95. To get such file on your Pi you can eg. download it from internet by using wget command in terminal:

wget http://some-music-source.com/download/example.wav

Another way is to upload WAV file to the Pi with SCP client program (built in linux or by using WinSCP on Windows machine) simply passing your Pi's SSH credentials (SSH must ve enabled - see foundqtion tutorials how to).

Please notice only raw WAV files are supported by transmitter itself, eg. some of them make use of compression and this won't work. You can always use ANY music format (including compressed WAV files) by converting it to either STDOUT stream or raw WAV (see readme).

luke1310 commented

So like this?
scp Path to File To Copy pi@IP Address of Raspberry Pi:Path that File will Go

But where should the music files go?
Should i create a new folder e.g.:
Mkdir music
Cd music
And then:
scp Path to File To Copy pi@IP Address of Raspberry Pi: home/pi/music

?

luke1310 commented

Thanks it works for me👍.