Thanks Carol!\ufffd Although there are several other programs that are compatible with Yamaha diskettes, there's not much besides this utility and the Giebler software that can handle PianoDisc diskettes.
A limitation of the currently-posted version of PPFBU is that it expects only 720 KB Disklavier diskettes, leading to "unsupported diskette" errors on 1.44 MB diskettes (homemade diskettes, some Pianosoft Plus disks, and commercial disks downloaded via yamahamusicsoft.com).\ufffd I've been testing an updated version adding support for 1.44 MB Disklavier disks and will post it to the website soon.
Mark
On 07/05/2013 02:46 PM, Carol Beigel wrote:
PPFBU aka Player Piano Floppy Backup Utility is Mark Fontana\ufffds new, as of March 2013, utility for backing up your floppy disks and converting those Yamaha files to MIDI files.\ufffd The program and instructions can be found at:\ufffd http://www.kinura.net/ppfbu/The program will convert PianoSoft, PianoSoftPlus and PianoDisc files to standard MIDI files.