SparkFun MP3 Player Shield

SparkFun MP3 Player Shield

• Are you looking to add some grooves to your project. Does your haunted house or Halloween costume need some sound effects embedded into it?
• Do you just want to be able to say you built your own MP3 player? The MP3 Player Shield is an easy way to add music or sound effects to your project.
• Features: 3.5mm audio out jack, 0.1" spaced header for speaker out, microSD card slot. The shield does use up quite a few pins, but here are the pins still available to connect to other components. The hardware UART pins -- RX and TX -- on pins 0 and 1, D5 and D10 (PWM pins!), All analog pins (A0 through A5).
• The centerpiece of the MP3 Player Shield is a VS1053B Audio Codec IC. The VS1053B is a multi talented little chip. On top of MP3's, it can also decode Ogg Vorbis, AAC, WMA, and MIDI.
• If you're not sure which version you've got, there's a version number on the bottom copper layer, underneath the headphone jack, as shown below. Note: Headers not included.