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homemade pianodisk on DKV won't play

2003-12-14 by Jean Debefve

Hi all

I tried to burn a CD with Mark Fontana's midtopianoCD software, and
did not succeed in having it play on my DU1A Yamaha upright, equipped
with the latest system update.
I used the pianodisk  format, and burned it on a sound CD, closing it
carefully. But it will just play some notes, let some others stuck,
with no relationship whatsoever with the original midi files.

As I guess the software (http://dp70.dyndns.org/mid2pianocd/ -a
shareware) might not be in cause, I have three hypotheses :

1°) I am dumb and miss some important point...  (Although I seem to
follow the instructions. I use Nero 5.5 for burning, and Sound Forge
to take care of the .wav files  when I try to add something onto the
CD's blank left track.) Could also be a matter of Type 1 versus Type 0
format but the pianodisk format is said to read and play both.

2° ) the yamaha CD drive doesn't read homemade CD's - a way to protect
them from "illegal" copy; 

3°) the Mark III system  does not read pianodisk CDs if not configured
to do so. But then I could not find a hint  about this in the yamaha
doc...

Has anyone encoutered the same problem ? Has anyone succesfully played
an original Pianodisk CD on a MarkIII system ? Has anyone tried to
copy a Pianosoft CD or Pianodisk CD and have them play ?   


Regards
Jean Debefve

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