Mark, I've ordered an external USB floppy drive for 10 bucks that -supposedly- reads 720MB SS disks. Will see if I can extract files from floppies with this and your program - thanks!
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Mark Fontana <mark@...> wrote:
I've written a free software tool for Windows that can extract performances from Disklavier and PianoDisc floppies: http://www.kinura.net/ppfbu/
It works fine for most people, but occasionally there are low-level problems reading the disks. This is sometimes caused by deterioration and wear of the disk media. Other times, it seems like there are issues with particular floppy drives and/or interference from antivirus software.
Another way to transfer files from Disklavier floppies, but with more steps, would be to extract the ESEQ files from your diskettes using Root-A-Ripper and then convert them to MIDI files using ESEQ2MID.EXE, both available at Carol Beigel's site: http://www.carolrpt.com/softwaredwnld.htm
Mark
On 01/16/2014 01:25 PM, Sam Kanter wrote:
Question to all: If I buy a cheap, external USB floppy drive and connect to desktop computer, will it be able to read disklavier Pianosoft disks so I can convert to MIDI and play thru MIDI on DK?Thanks,