Corrupted SD card

BeatBuddy Help, Questions and Bugs
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So, most of the time I work from my computer, setting setlists, charts and whatnot. Yesterday morning, loading my car for a show, I open my pedal-board case, remove the SD card from the BeatBuddy just to add 2 new songs that I wont even play today. Sync, eject, re-insert in the BeatBuddy : No song. :scream: Repeat the process religiously. Still No song. I got to go now so, reach for the family camera SD card → sync with the BeatBuddy Manager and voilà. The BB now works perfectly. But wait, Playlists ! I use playlists extensively (recalling 187 songs through MIDI) no way I can set that up in 5 minutes. I now realize I have to backup the PLAYLISTS folder and cannot rely on the Manager (I should have known that though as it is an explicitly unsupported feature of the oh so comprehensive BBManager).

Install my gear at the venue : No song. :scream: Get some random laptop to figure out what is going on with the SD card. Seems to be corrupted. No clue what so ever. Try everything while chairs are filling up. Did 2 hours of show without a single note from my BeatBuddy.

Back home: reformat all cards, re-sync, etc. The BB is now working. Three reboots later, still working. I wish I never go through that ever again. If only I could somehow know what went wrong. It is for now a random thing that can happen and is added in my morning prayer for the lord to save me from another no-drummer-show.

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Greetings,

I bought a used Beat Buddy. And tried to make a duplicate of the SD card files. But I got an error message that said the card needed to be reformatted.

I’m not a tech type. but to reformat, I need to erase current files and replace them with uncorrupted files? Is that correct?

if so, where do I find that download. I’m in the dark, and getting frustrated.

thanks

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Copy the contents of the existing SD card to a folder on your desktop. Why? The previous owner might have premium content in the project. You may want to try copying that content back to the SD card once you format it. If the project doesnt doesn’t work, nothing lost except a little of your time.

Format as MS DOS(FAT32).

Download fresh Default Content from here: https://singularsound-publicly-downloadable.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/BB2_firmware/BeatBuddy_2_Default_Content_v1.2-Project_SD_Card.zip

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Thanks

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