Disklavier

I tried the 2 free D-Radio channels for a few weeks and have to agree that most of the pop songs have annoying midi accompaniment with silly syn-instrumentation.  I would dip my toe back into the stream'n d-radio if:  1. like Pandora, you could vote up or down individual tunes so they play more often or not at all.  This would also give the folks at D-Radio good consumer data on which tunes have merit.  
2. the live broadcasts conform to what Bill introduced to us here a few weeks back with real simultaneous broadcasts with streaming video of concerts.  
3. the monthly pricing falls more inline with XM, Pandora, and others.  



--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Goroway <kgoroway@...> wrote:
>
> I agree with all of what Phil said.  Although the "Live" channel does have live 
> (played by a person) classical music which is much better than the classical 
> station.
> 
> And, I do think it repeats songs a bit too often.  Out of interest, I kept track 
> of every single song played for a while and came up with the total number of 
> songs in rotation for each channel.  I was surprised at how low it was.  
> 
> On a technical note, *NONE* of this is actually "streamed", as in, played while 
> it is downloading.  All of it is downloaded to the piano before it is played. 
>  They pre-cache the next 2 things to be played, which is why the WAVs are ready 
> to be played when required.  I don't think they are capable of streaming the 
> WAVs in real-time...however, if they would add MP3 capabilities, the whole thing 
> would be possible...
> 
> -Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Phil Blah <phil.blah@...>
> To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 6:55:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [disklavier] Internet Radio Review
> 
>   
> Hello,
> 
> Well since you asked :) I originally thought the radio was expensive per month.. 
> but I think it's a great idea for when you just get stuck in your music ways and 
> just need someone else to choose the next song for you.
> 
> The only problem is many songs they have are great/fine... then you get this 
> horrible song that needs to be banned, infact yamaha should be embarrised that 
> even have it! - you all know those horrible cheasy mostly using the syth with a 
> bad piano riff... god...
> 
> I really wish someone at yamaha would play a nice modern version of pop/movie 
> songs, beautiful on the piano - (pop as in modern movie music [no the god father 
> is old now and so is forest gump and ghost] or mostly a song that is not 
> horrible that everyone hates.. or is like 40+ years old)... the song does NOT  
> have to be the exact same beat/tempo... So many Madonna and even dead old 
> michael jackson or other movie songs -  songs would be great properly played on 
> the piano with feeling... 
> 
> 
> If you ever search for midi's on the net, most of yamaha's radio on the pop 
> section are like that.
> 
> With the classical section, most of these songs hammer the piano to death and 
> make it go out of tune, sorry but classical songs are depressing and boring 
> after a while, if you just want to clean the house or have a few friends over, 
> you can't have them bashing away without annoying you and everyone else. - 
> actually I don't mind classical music, but you just have to be in the mood and 
> many of the yamaha songs are all robotic with no feeling. - I would rather the 
> free classic songs played LIVE properly by people like Finley etc.
> 
> In the end, it's a fun service and it is addictive... the real thing that will 
> take these pianos to 2011 is forget the horrible  synths (yes i have a mark4) 
> and stream proper audio with the midi... so you can have the live band playing 
> and the original piano WAS a disklavier and so you ONLY hear your piano as the 
> piano, not some crappy over the top thing. Hearing a human sing with a real 
> drumkit and base is just excellent.
> 
> They stream waves in the demo tracks so it would not take much to just 
> intergrate midi with it.
> 
> Anyway, just buy a month and see for yourself.
> 
> Cya
> 
> Philip
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: nehs1975 <nehs1975@...>
> To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, 9 May, 2011 5:23:50 AM
> Subject: [disklavier] Internet Radio Review
> 
>   
> For folks who are currently subscribed to Yamaha's internet radio, I'd like to 
> know your experience with it.  I haven't seen any Amazon.com-like review on the 
> internet about it.  I'm thinking of upgrading to E3 or getting the DKC-850 to 
> replace my unit.  The E3/DKC-850 desire is driven for the most part by the 
> appeal of internet radio, and of course the convenience of USB.  I have Sirius 
> satellite and find that selections, over time, tend to repeat to a point where 
> you'd know you're listening to Sirius when you hear song selections/groups being 
> played. 
> 
> 
> Wondering if such is the case with Yamaha's internet radio? What else do you 
> like with the internet radio aside from what's advertised as its selling points?
>