Disklavier

It is interesting that some of us are not able to use the XP native 
unzip feature to open the e-Competition files and others (Pianobench) 
are able to do so.  I checked and I have never installed the Hotfix 
329048 and I still am not able to decompress the files by double 
clicking on them (which enables the Windows XP decompression wizard) 
although I have decompressed them by selecting the zipped file and then 
selecting "Extract Files" from the resulting drop-down menu. I suspect 
that buried somewhere within the inner mysteries of the Windows XP 
operating system or the software configuation of our respective machines 
is the answer, but at this point it hardly seems worth while to pursue 
it further.

I did find the YamPlayer program contributed by MidiMagic to be an 
excellent way to build a Play List of the e-Competition files with the 
downloaded ESEQ files which displayed the song title as well as the 
performing artist.  These could have been incorporated into the enhanced 
midi files but were not. 

These files present some terrific material for the disklavier and I 
thank Pianobench, John Walker and others who had a hand in preparing 
them for their hard work. 

Tom


Chine-Chine Wang wrote:

>
> If your Windows XP hasn't been patched for quite some time, it is 
> possible that its "compressed folders" feature still works with folder 
> names containing commas.  The problem apparently came out along with 
> Hotfix 329048 (you can verify if you have it by going to Control Panel 
> -> Add/Remove Programs, but don't ask me what it was supposed to fix), 
> which was a critical update and Windows XP by default would have 
> downloaded it automatically then prompted the user to install it.
>
> Here is the documentation but apparently MS hasn't come out with a fix 
> (or shall I say un-fix) stable enough for public release:  
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];813942
>
> <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;813942>CCW
>
>
> At 02:25 PM 2/9/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon, everyone.
>>
>> I appreciate your comments, CCW, but I don't understand the problem. 
>> As I indicated in my recent post, I had no trouble unzipping these 
>> files using Windows XP Professional without resorting to any other 
>> utilities.
>>
>> Regards,
>> PianoBench
>>
>> In a message dated 2/9/04 2:16:43 PM, chine@... writes:
>>
>>
>>> The incompatibility (only happens when using Windows XP's native 
>>> compressed folder feature) is with the directory name inside the 
>>> piano-e-competition zip files.  The comma is the culprit.  I was 
>>> able to reproduce the problem with completely different files under 
>>> a directory name that includes a comma (and problem vanished once 
>>> re-zipped using a directory name without comma).
>>>
>>> Now, for end users the problem is easy to deal with - just install 
>>> any of a number of free utilities (such as WinZip) and the 
>>> downloaded PeC files can be extracted.  Let's remember that prior to 
>>> Windows XP, users had to do that in order to unzip ANY zipped file 
>>> anyway.  But if Yamaha wants to maximize the distribution and usage 
>>> of these files, it would be nice to have them re-zipped for download 
>>> (with either comma-free directory names, or simply without the extra 
>>> directory level).
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