WavePro Shield - Beta Testers wanted

Hi,

Just stumbled upon this project, and I have to say not before time !! I have seen several audio player shields but none of them allow the Arduino access to the SD card. Seems perfectly logical to me but yet I have failed to find any (other than this one). The Rugged device was the closest I found but it has no direct SD card access yet (It is planned as I talked to them yesterday, but no planned date). I have a talking logging project in mind that could use a device like this.

So a couple of questions if I may:

  1. How is the SD card access part of the project coming ?

  2. Any idea on cost ?

  3. I am happy to build from PCB if you have one lying about, I understand if not.

  4. What software did you use to design the PCB ? EDIT: worked it out, it's gEDA

Cheers. Cam.