Disklavier

Before I got my "official" Yamaha UD-FD01,  I bought and tried those two and couldn't get it to work, it did not read the floppies..

With the UD-FD01, I imported all my 200+ Floppies into the DKC-850.. then backed them up to a USB Drive and locked it away.
I then started what I always wanted to do was to go thru all the songs and cherry picked all my favorites songs and created some awesome playlists.. classical soft, Blues, Pop, Xmas, etc..

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Bill Brandom <bill.brandom03@...> wrote:
>
> Because Yamaha has protected its PianoSoft files on floppy disks, most
> drives don't work.
> 
> The Yamaha drive that works is the UD-FD01. There are two other drives that
> I know that work with the protected data:
> 
> Iomega #32633
> LaCie #706018
> 
> If you try a different drive and it works, please let the group know the
> make and model.
> 
> Bill Brandom
> 
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:23 AM, discodonal <discodonal@...> wrote:
> 
> > **
> >
> >
> > Why can't I use any USB floppy disk drive? I want to get all the songs
> > from my mark iii box to my dkc 850.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Donal
> >
> > --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Bill Brandom <bill.brandom03@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > If you are going to use a non-Yamaha USB FDD, I recommend the following:
> > >
> > > Iomega #32633
> > > LaCie #706018
> > >
> > > These do work with protected floppies.
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sep 3, 2012, at 9:50 AM, "gmtmt" <gmtmt@> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I wen to Best Buy and bought a floppy disc drive for $70.00 and
> > attached it the the KDC850 and it works great. I also use the USB stick as
> > well.
> > > >
> > > > --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Carol Beigel <carol@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > There is a problem with that. Yamaha copy protection scheme will NOT
> > allow you to:
> > > > >
> > > > > copy a PianoSoft disk to a USB stick
> > > > > copy a PianoSoft disk to the FromToPC folder
> > > > > copy PianoSoft disks to CDs
> > > > >
> > > > > The only way I have found to get your pianosoft floppies into the
> > Memory is to use a USB floppy disk drive.
> > > > >
> > > > > I figure if you can afford the $1500 for the DKC-850 you might save
> > yourself a lot of time and trouble and just buy their USB Floppy Disk drive.
> > > > >
> > > > > You can, however, convert your ESEQ disks to standard file formats
> > using Giebler, DKVutils or Root a Ripper, then use the converted disks to
> > place files on USB sticks, folders on a computer, etc.
> > > > >
> > > > > Good luck.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Carol Beigel
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sep 3, 2012, at 3:13 AM, tintinlad320 wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I found this in the operating manual:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You can add a Disklavier piano performance you recorded or on
> > > > > > commercially available SmartPianoSoft software to the playback of
> > songs
> > > > > > on your favorite CDs.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So its ok i guess; I wont have the diskettes reader unit so
> > probably I'll have to copy the floppy to the pc and from there on on a usb
> > stick I'll choose the
> > > > > > appropriate file...
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