PicoMite 2 HDMI USB I2S board....


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Grogster

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Posted: 05:30am 30 Dec 2025      

......not all SD cards are equal.

Copied the MP3 files to another SD card, and they are ALMOST perfect.

First card was a 128MB(yes, MB) uSD card for experimentation, formatted as FAT32.
Copy rate was about 2.6MB per second, so I thought it would have no trouble reading MP3 data.  Seems not.

Next test was 8GB ADATA, also formatted as FAT32.

No pops or clicks on playback with this one, but still the OCCASIONAL skip, in the order of about 200ms or so of skipped audio output.

IS THERE A RECCOMENDED MINIMUM SD CARD SIZE AND SPEED for use with this unit?

As I say, WAV playback is FLAWLESS(even from these same cards), but mp3 is a bit "Jittery" at times.

With the size of SD cards these days, there is no reason to NOT use full uncompressed WAV files, I guess!