Disklavier

Has anyone figured out how to play your collection of Pianosoft content (in original floppies) other than playing them on optional Yamaha USB floppy drive?  No workaround still to transfer content to USB flash drives?  

Thanks!

What I did was to use the "dkvutils" and "rootaripper" utilities on this site under "Files" to rip the floppies to my PC, then copy them to my USB harddrive.  I put each disks worth of files (.mid or .fil) in individual folders then copy them to the USB drive and read them right off the disklavier (mine is a DKC-850).  I can now store the floppy drive away and use either the free iPhone application or Kevin's cool DKVBrowser program to sort though my extensive song files off the USB and internal memory on the DKV.  

For more details on this, search this site for Carol's cool posts on the dkvutils and rootaripper utilities. 

have fun! 

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "nehs1975" <nehs1975@...> wrote:

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> Has anyone figured out how to play your collection of Pianosoft content (in original floppies) other than playing them on optional Yamaha USB floppy drive?  No workaround still to transfer content to USB flash drives?  
> 
> Thanks!
>

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:54 AM, nehs1975 <nehs1975@...> wrote:
> Has anyone figured out how to play your collection of Pianosoft content (in original floppies) other than playing them on optional Yamaha USB floppy drive?  No workaround still to transfer content to USB flash drives?

Would reading the disks on a computer (with riparoot or whatever) and
copying them to a flash drive work?

James

James,
 
From my experience, if you can rip the songs off a floppy, they can then be
put on a USB stick and work just fine with the DKC-850.  
 
I made a single USB drive with all of my floppies on it, putting each floppy
in a different sub-directory on the USB stick.  This works just fine, and
lets me select the "floppy" and then either play it or find a single
selection on it to play.
 
I'm sure there are other methods too, but I've used this one to put my
entire floppy collection on a single 2gb USB stick and it has worked fine
(except for losing the PRO resolution on those selections that were recorded
with it, but that's apparently a permanent "feature" of the DKC-850 --
grumble, grumble...).
 
Phil

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From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of James Fry
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:27 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Pianosoft Floppy Collections on DKC-800/DKC-850


  

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 6:54 AM, nehs1975 <nehs1975@...
<mailto:nehs1975%40yahoo.com> > wrote:
> Has anyone figured out how to play your collection of Pianosoft content
(in original floppies) other than playing them on optional Yamaha USB floppy
drive?  No workaround still to transfer content to USB flash drives?

Would reading the disks on a computer (with riparoot or whatever) and
copying them to a flash drive work?

James

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "kassey22000" <kassey22000@...> wrote:
>
> What I did was to use the "dkvutils" and "rootaripper" utilities on this site under "Files" to rip the floppies to my PC, then copy them to my USB harddrive.  I put each disks worth of files (.mid or .fil) in individual folders then copy them to the USB drive and read them right off the disklavier (mine is a DKC-850).  I can now store the floppy drive away and use either the free iPhone application or Kevin's cool DKVBrowser program to sort though my extensive song files off the USB and internal memory on the DKV.  
> 

I assume you installed the E3 firmware update on your DKC-850.  Does it seem to work just fine?