# Would a Pixelblaze be suitable for

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**Created:** [December 19, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/would-a-pixelblaze-be-suitable-for/1834 "2021-12-19T23:43:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![DaveGadgeteer](https://forum.electromage.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@DaveGadgeteer](https://forum.electromage.com/u/DaveGadgeteer)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/would-a-pixelblaze-be-suitable-for/1834/1 "2021-12-19T23:43:02Z")

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I’d like to download a music (mp3?) file over wifi, then in response to a contact closure, play the sound via an I2S audio amp to a little speaker.  
Would this be a reasonable thing to do with a PixelBlaze?

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**Author:** ![jeff](https://forum.electromage.com/user_avatar/forum.electromage.com/jeff/32/3473_2.png) [@jeff](https://forum.electromage.com/u/jeff)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/would-a-pixelblaze-be-suitable-for/1834/2 "2021-12-20T01:02:51Z")

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I don’t think so. Pixelblaze, specializing in LED control, is (intentionally) missing a lot of the pieces you’d need to pull this off.

I’d look into some of the audio and WiFi IoT boards from Sparkfun or Adafruit.

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**Author:** ![Scruffynerf](https://forum.electromage.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Scruffynerf](https://forum.electromage.com/u/Scruffynerf)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/would-a-pixelblaze-be-suitable-for/1834/3 "2021-12-20T03:00:53Z")

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Yeah, not at all. A generic esp32 maybe, but honestly for the price/effort, I’d suggest one of the audio focused esp32 boards out there, since it’ll be both supported and standard. Either a lyraT or a ESP32-A1S