Disklavier

Hi John,

You can do it using this software to read the floppies:
http://www.kinura.net/ppfbu/

followed by MID2PianoCD to transcode the tracks to LX format:
http://www.kinura.net/mid2pianocd/

The time-consuming part is keying all the title/composer/pianist 
information into PPFBU as you go.  But if you do that, you'll get 
perfectly-tagged (annotated), ready-to-use MP3 files out of the 
conversion by MID2PianoCD.

Contact me offline before you start and I may be able to save you some 
time.  I've already converted hundreds of floppies for use on more 
modern systems, so I have a lot of the metadata on hand already.  Too 
bad there's no central repository for this information the way there is 
for ripping music CDs.

Mark Fontana


On 04/13/2017 11:48 AM, johnledwon@... [disklavier] wrote:
>
> I recently acquired from a friend about 150 Yamaha Disklavier floppy 
> discs and want to convert them to play my Live Performance player. (It 
> can play any of the digital piano systems\u2026hopefully!) Unfortunately 
> when I put a disc into the USB floppy drive on my computer I get a 
> message that the \u201cDisk media is not recognized. The disc may not be 
> formatted.\u201d
>
> Is there a program available that will allow my computer to read these 
> Yamaha disks and copy the files to my computer so I can burn a CD to 
> play on my Live Performance player.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Ledwon, Henderson, Nevada
>