For prototyping board, see the image.
1.Take JP10/SPIB off to prevent boot.
2.SD card out to prevent Real-Time MIDI mode in vs1053.
3.Connect GND, TX, and RX.
4.Turn on (need a fresh enough battery), the LED LD1 will turn on.

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Example for VSIDE:
A. Load the vs1053-standalone-vside-133 solution. Right-click on the vs1053-standalone project, choose "Set as active project".
B. In the Project menu choose "Prommer/Flasher Utility"
C. Choose last Prommer module "VS1053 Universal Prommer (legacy)" and click Next. (If you don't succeed, you can try the others.)
D. You see the "Emulation-Debug/sciplayer.coff" is suggested, click Next
E. If the serial ports are correct, press Start.
F. If everything goes well, the prommer is sent to the board and run, it opens the boot image from the PC disk, and programs it into the memory. I first had trouble with "Verify Error", but changing the SPI EEPROM to 25LC1024 fixed it. The one on my prototyping board was 25LC640, and the whole boot image didn't fit in 8kB.

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Turn off and on the card if you want to retry the programming.