Mark might have more efficient methods but I have a program that makes the tag.txt files used by Mid2PianoCD from a tabbed text listing. This is what I used to add the meta data to the thousands of yamaha e-comp files after laboriously extracting the data from their mess of a web site.
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67550-Bell Springs Rd.
Garberville, CA 95542 Postal service only.
Laytonville, CA 95454 UPS only.
21220 92nd Place W., Edmonds, WA 98020
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(425) 791-0309
(707) 223-8212
------ Original Message ------
From: "Mark Fontana mark@... [disklavier]" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 4/13/2017 10:42:47 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] conversion of floppy discs
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…hopefully!) Unfortunately when I put a disc into the USB floppy drive on my computer I get a message that the “Disk media is not recognized. The disc may not be formatted.”
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