OGG files are used because they are supremely compressed which saves on download time. If you had uncompressed WAV files the downloads would be insane.

This is why both Pinsound Studio and the board itself convert the OGG to Wav for you.

Are they in the Audio sub folder?

Also on board conversion is super slow. Use the PinSound studio software

I actually find the directory system makes it easier to find files when you want to edit or change them. I agree with you...at first it looks like it's a pain in the ass, but it really becomes pretty intuitive once you play with it for a while. And yes...your board is doing something wrong because my IJ boots up with the huge reorchestration file faster than my WOZ does - and if that's the only "pain in the butt," for me it's well worth it.

When we setup my dad's tommy with pinsound i remember it taking a couple hours to uncompressed, and i think it failed the first time we tried.

Again use a computer and PinSound studio to transfer the downloaded sound mixes to your USB stick.

The computer will convert the OGG files to WAV significantly faster than the board in the game will.

Download it here

https://www.pinsound.org/pinsound-studio/

There is also a demo video but the application is very straight forward to load the USB with your desired audio mix.

I will agree that their website is not the best. Also download the latest PinSound board firmware from their site and put it on the root of the USB drive. Then put it back in the pin and boot up to upgrade the software on the board.

I bought a board more recently and the software on it was older than the update from December 2015

https://www.pinsound.org/pinsound-board-firmware/

Combination of color dmd and pin sound may be putting too much load on shared signals (i think they are on the cpu bus, maybe asic stuff, not really sure) which is driving logic levels to a point the color DMD is failing to read them properly.

just a guess.......................

Too much strain on the 12v probably for both devices at once.

Then You are correct it probably isn't a 12v issue.

Without reading back through because I am tired and in bed, have you tried a different USB drive?

i think you should try another USB.

Mmmmm..... Am using a Pinsound with a colour DMD on my STTNG, on some boots I also have the USB drive not found error. Reboot the machine and everything is fine. Bought it at a pinball show direct from the guys in August 2015. This is ,y third Pinsound and the only one that is giving me an issue.

I bought a Pinsound board for my DE Star Trek, and although it works and sounds good, the audio files play back in the wrong order. I've already played with renaming some of the files, but this is pretty tedious. There are close to 100 files that I would need to figure out the order to play them back in. Does anyone have any advice before I spend hours and days working through this?

Any help is appreciated.

- Deron

Odd issue here on my Pinsound 1 board.

I have a DCS IJ Pinsound 1 which works very well. I have a WPC89 TZ Pinsound 1 which at first only played voices, thought it was a corrupted download, tried to convert 3 different TZ files at Pinsound studio AND letting the Pinsound convert zipped files directly. All were doing the same thing, just voices while playing.

Swapped boards, IJ board does same thing in TZ, so chance of board issue is unlikely. (TZ board works well in IJ).

5v reference and grounds at Pinsound in TZ are fine. I also have a ColorDmd on TZ, other mods installed, nothing heavy.

Also swapped ribbon cables and made sure no damaged pins.

Today issue is worse. Pinsound in TZ plays nothing, but boot up sounds are fine. Installed original WPC 89 sound board, works well, all jingles, voices, music are fine.

So how can a Pinsound board which works well in an IJ not work but boot up fine in a TZ?

Full disclosure this TZ did have an issue burning out PD and CPU boards for a while, was losing 12v circuit on factory boards and Pinled boards, got so bad had to have boards repaired by Clive.

That issue is resolved for now but just Pinsound data seems to have an issue? ( has IJ Pinsound in TZ now, TZ In IJ running well).
Btw, both Pinsound boards have latest firmware updates.

It's not hard. Follow my guide, and do all of your file conversion before inserting USB onto Pinsound. If you can't figure it out, I'm happy to create a zip file for you to d/l and you can just unzip on your USB and you're ready to go.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tantrums-guide-to-pinsound

Mr. Tantrum, his post was 2 years old. I found this Pinsound topic and posted in it. In hindsight maybe should start a new thread, but title was relevant.