Disklavier

George, for those of us with Mark II DKVs, I wonder if it's possible for us to receive DKV radio (and other data) on our computers on the  internet and send out thru MIDI to our DKVs? This seems technologically simple, but perhaps Yamaha does not want to do for some reason?

Sam 
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> On Jul 18, 2014, at 11:32 AM, "George Frederick Litterst PianoBench@... [disklavier]" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Good morning, everyone.
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> Ralph, song files play in the order that they were copied to the floppy disk or in the order in which they were subsequently created. It sounds as though the files on your floppy were copied during the mastering process in a different order from what is specified on the website.
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> The floppy disks that Yamaha sells typically are missing a boot sector. This makes them normally unreadable on a computer. There are software programs, however, that will read most of these disks on a PC, such as RootARipper (http://www.carolrpt.com/softwaredwnld.htm).
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> In theory, you could use RootARipper to copy the files to your PC’s hard drive. Then, you could format a fresh double-sided floppy (DD) in your Disklavier, open it on your PC, and carefully copy the files, one at a time, to the floppy disk in the order that you would like them to play.
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> NOTE: If you copy a group of files at once, you have no control over the order in which they actually get written to the floppy.
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> It seems to me that it is reasonable for you to follow that procedure with any floppy disk that you own. However, some may challenge one’s right to do this sort of thing under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. 
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> Regards,
> PianoBench
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>> On Jul 10, 2014, at 3:59 PM, capespechts@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> Recently purchased and downloaded two floppy discs from Yamaha.  The order of the songs on the Web page is different that the order that the songs play on my Disklavier (MX 100 with Tone Generator).
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>> I thought in the past the I used EEXPLORE to reorder the files.  Tried running eexplore under Windows 7 and get an error message when it tries to read the floppy.
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>> Any help would be appreciated.
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>> Ralph Specht
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