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Playing audio files over Sonarcloud

Upload and play MP3 and WAV files over your Sonarcloud device from the dashboard.

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Written by Michael A. Leonetti
Updated over a week ago

This article will cover uploading and playing pre-recorded sound files over the Sonarcloud system. Using this feature, you have the ability to save, play, and schedule announcements or music files without having to record them through the system first or create a bell.

To get started, once you have all of the Sonarcloud devices you want to announce to selected, go to the Announcements section and look under the All Announcements tab.ย 

Click on the Add button to get started.

A file selection dialogue will appear. Select the audio file or files you want to upload to Sonarcloud. You can select multiple files at a time. You will have the option to schedule them or play them immediately later. (Note: only mp3 and wav files are supported. If you are having trouble, please make sure the file ends with .mp3 or .wav and they are proper file types. Otherwise you will not be able to upload these files.)

Once you select files, the upload dialogue box will appear with the files you have selected.

At this stage files are not yet uploaded to the Sonarcloud system. If you click on the Close button at this point, the entire upload operation will be cancelled.

On this dialogue, to the right of the filename, you can see some icons denoting upload actions. You have a trash bin, floppy disk, schedule, and an upload icon. They have the following actions:
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  • Clicking on the trash bin will remove your file from the upload list.

  • Clicking on the floppy disk will save your announcement to the Sonarcloud cloud and your Sonarcloud device but will not play or schedule your announcement.

  • Clicking on the schedule will save your announcement as above, and will also allow you to schedule this announcement.

  • Clicking on the upload icon will upload your file to the Sonarcloud cloud and to your Sonarcloud device and play it immediately.

Note: Your uploaded announcement may not appear in the announcement list immediately. It may take some time to be processed.
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