Disklavier

There may be some solutions:

    1. Smart Pianosoft tracks could probably be played by ripping the 
commercial CD tracks to MP3 format, then pairing them with the MIDI 
files from the Yamaha floppy disk, such that the tracks have
the same filenames and only different extensions (e.g. song1.mp3 and 
song1.mid), which is essentially the new Pianosoft Audio format.  
However, this would only work well for the simplest cases, where the 
Smart Pianosoft MIDI stream did not use SYSEX messages to adjust the 
pitch or synchronization of the CD track. A proper conversion taking 
those factors into account would be possible if Yamaha would document 
those SYSEX messages, or better yet, release an official tool for the 
purpose.  A low-cost migration path would be even better; seems crazy to 
require individual owners to perform the same semi-technical steps 
independently.  It would be rather labor-intensive for more than a 
handful of albums.

    2. Pianosoft Plus Audio CDs aren't copy protected, but there aren't 
any tools available to convert them to other formats.   I *think* 
Enspire has the ability to play Pianosoft Plus Audio tracks from digital 
files or the external audio input, provided they are stored in a 
lossless format such as WAV, FLAC, or Apple Lossless.

Mark Fontana


On 10/17/2016 03:18 PM, kassey22000@... [disklavier] wrote:
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> Sadly, I don't think Yamaha thought through the Digital Rights 
> Management issues before introducing these new Disklaviers.  For 
> example I have hundreds of Smart Pianosoft albums with the matching 
> commercial CDs I've purchased over years.  Many of these titles are 
> now out of print and many more aren't available for the Enspire as a 
> download.  None of the ones I have will play on Enspire pianos.
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> In addition, because the Enspire has NO CD player, there's no apparent 
> way you can even play the "expensive" Pianosoft Audio CDs most of 
> which have copy protection on the CDs.  Again many of these 
> titles aren't even offered for the Enspire on Yamaha's Pianosoft 
> online store.  While I get that CD players are so last century, Yamaha 
> should have provided a migration path for all of our media to the new 
> pianos.
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> While the piano does come with 500 songs, there is NO internal storage 
> device on these new pianos.  So the very few titles you can purchase 
> online have to be saved to an external USB drive.  Your .mid and .fil 
> files should play fine once you move them to a thumb drive.
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> I'm very interested in upgrading because of the superior CX pianos 
> offered on the larger models (with PRO only), but to loose hundreds of 
> my favorite DK albums/songs is No Go!  Maybe these were just designed 
> for folks new to the Disklavier piano and not for the many current 
> owners who would consider an upgrade.
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> Any solutions to be able to move my entire collection to the Enspire 
> would be welcomed.
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