Wav files for NUVI 1390

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/25730

I followed the instructions in mode 25730 but it still wont work. I think I'm having problems unzipping sox and then placing it in the two folders.
Do I unzip sox after I put them in the folder?
When I try to unzip them before I place them in the folders I get A QUICK SCREEN FLASH of the unzipping ON THE MONITOR but nothing else happens.

Unzip sox.exe and copy it to C:\Program Files\Garmin\POI Loader or C:\Program Files (x86)\Garmin\POI Loader (Windows 7 64-bit). It will then work.

sox.exe MUST be in the same folder from which POI Loader is executed (ie. poiloader.exe).

I have a shortcut to POI Loader on my desktop - so I did a right-click on the Icon and then selected "properties". The Target of the shortcut was ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Garmin\POI Loader\POI Loader.exe"". SO - that is where I have placed sox.exe.

If you do not have a shortcut on your desktop, then you can create one by:
Click on "Start" on your PC;
navigate to where the Garmin programs are;
right-click on POI Loader and select the "Send To" option, and then select "Desktop (create shortcut)"

Then follow the sequence of what I did and see where the target is.

You should have gotten sox.exe from http://www.poi-factory.com/images/csv/sox-14-0-1.zip. When you unzip this file, you can unzip it anywhere you like. I keep a copy of the sox.exe file in several places so that I can later make a copy of it and put that copy into whatever folder Garmin decides to place the next version of POI Loader.

sox.exe, if you downloaded it from this site, is all you need to unzip* and it just needs to be placed in the folder containing POI Loader.exe once, so don't give up.

The unzipped sox.exe will be 1,672 KB or 1,712,128 bytes in size.

*Unless you download a POI file that's so large, it's zipped. The only zipped POI file I've seen on this site is the schools file:

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/17

although there may be more and I've just never seen them.

I have tried everything with my 1490 but I can not get it to work. The wav file is spelled correctly and it is in the same directory as the CSV. The sox.exe (1672 bytes) is in the POIloader directory. I have tried at least 20 combinations of placing the sox.exe in every possible directory and anything else that I can think if. Is there some setting on the 1490 that should be set? No matter what I do it gives the default rings. I have very unhappily learned to live with it.

There is nothing special about the 1490 that would need extra instructions to make it work.

I see that you have several Garmin GPS models, some of which are fairly old. If you've used older versions of POI Loader in the past, you may have two versions of POI Loader on your computer and you may have sox.exe in the older non-used POI Loader folder. Can you tell us what folder your POI Loader.exe and sox.exe are in?

Can you also give us one example of a csv file name and associated wav file name that you're using which doesn't give a wav alert? When loading POI files and wav files with POI Loader, do you receive an error messages or do you get a "Successfully installed xx POIs" message. How did you come by your wav files; i.e., did you create your own, download a mp3 from The Factory and convert it to a wav, ...??? Have you also associated a bmp icon with a csv file and if so, do your custom icons appear in place of the default dot?

One other thought is double extensions, although that's unlikely since your csv files are working. Just to check, though, is your computer's Folder Options set to not Hide extensions for known file types?

One other thought. If you're using a Mac, I don't think you even need sox.exe, but I'll assume you're a Windows user like many of us.

The key things you need to know for getting WAV sound files to work using Windows are:

1. The ONLY version of SOX.exe that will work is 14.0.1;

2. SOX.exe MUST be in the same folder as poiloader.exe;

3. Go to Control Panel, Folder Options, then select View and BE CERTAIN Show Hidden Files, Folders and drives is selected. You MUST be certain Hide Extensions for Known File Types IS UNCHECKED;

4. The POI file, Icon, and sound file are in the same folder with EXACTLY the same name except for a SINGLE extension of 3 characters;

5. POI Loader is executed AND you have either used the manual mode to set speed or proximity for any CSV file or added a speed or proximity setting within any GPX file;

6. POI Loader reports it has successfully loaded all your input files by giving you a count of the number of individual locations in all your files;

7. You have gone into the SETTINGS for your unit and enabled PROXIMITY ALERTS.

As a final note, you can use the manual mode in POI Loader to specify a proximity or speed for a GPX file or it can be included within the file.

Hopefully, the advice from craigw will have solved your problem, but I am going to concentrate on your statement
20 combinations of placing the sox.exe in every possible directory.

If you did not read my post above about using a shortcut on the desktop for POI Loader and using the "properties" of that shortcut to determine where to put the UNZIPPED copy of sox.exe that you would get from http://www.poi-factory.com/images/csv/sox-14-0-1.zip
then please do so now.

Now, I want you to create a batch file using Notepad. The two lines of this file should say

Save the file as something like "sox-ver.bat" using the quotes in the file save as box to make sure that the file name is truly sox-ver.bat (ie., not having a .txt extension). Put the file in the directory that you determined from the "properties" of the shortcut to POI Loader. Then run the batch file and the output should say "...: SoX v14.0.1"

If all this works, then the software portion of your issue should be solved.

Double-click on the .wav file and tell us what happens. It should play using whatever program you have associated with .wav files. Did it play ok?

well done boxcar. We need to save your instructions because so many people have trouble getting this process correct.

The biggest problems with the alerts and icons not working are the files not being named the same except for extensions and having double extensions. Double-check each of them. The best way to prevent double extensions is to go to your folder options in the control panel and click view then find hide extensions for known file types and remove the check mark. Click ok.

Make sure to download sox.exe from here and follow the instructions http://www.poi-factory.com/node/25730

I have only recently gotten Win 7 (having been on XP for years and years.

In Win 7, I found that I could click on the "Start" button at the lower left, type in "file extensions" and be presented with options - the first of which on my machine was "show or hide file extensions" which, of course took me to the View tab of Folder Options

On Windows 8 two ways. Move cursor to right of screen until menu comes up. Select search and same as 7 type in file extensions for
selections. Or move cursor to to bottom left of screen when start shows right click and select control panel then folder options then view.

Thanks, I added that to my FAQ

Thank you to everyone for helping. In control panel I had “Hide extensions for known filetypes” checked which caused me to not see the double extensions for the .wav files as I had copied and pasted and then renamed the files with a .wav extension. I unchecked the box, then I saw the doubles. I renamed the .wav files, reran poiloader, and tested. It works!! Thank you again. It would have taken about a year to find this myself.

Glad you are up and running now with the voice alerts.

I tried your suggestion with no sucess. what do you mean when you say "SAVE AS BOX".

I stated that rather badly, didn't I.

I was asking you to create a batch file using Notepad. Once you had typed in the two lines (from my earlier post above), I should have been more detailed as to how you would save the file.

In the menu for Notepad, click on File, then - from the drop down dialog - click on Save. You will be presented with a dialog box titled "Save as". There will be a "box" near the bottom that is labeled "File name" and will likely already have "*.txt" (without the quotes) already filled in. This is where you would type "sox-ver-bat" (including the quotes). The quotes serve to tell Notepad that you want the exact name you have typed in without the addition of any extension.

Since I asked you to put this in the same directory as which you had determined to be where poiloader-exe resides, I will have to add that you might need to run Notepad as "administrator" - depending on what version of windows you are using. If that is the case, when you find the program Notepad, instead of left-clicking to start Notepad, you would right-click and choose "Run as administrator" to start Notepad with additional priviliges.