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Pianobench,

Thanks for clarifying the situation on the song titles.  Since I did not 
place the files on floppy disks in order to play them in my disklavier, 
but rather used YamPlayer to create a Play List and play them directly 
from a lap top connected to my DC3A, I was not aware that the midi files 
contained the song titles as a sequencer specific midi event.  I did 
pull a few of the midi files into Cakewalk's Sonar 3 sequencer and I 
noted when I selected File>Get Info within this sequencer that it had no 
information regarding the song title or the performer and therefore I 
assumed (obviously incorrectly) that this information was not in the 
file. YamPlayer is able to show the song titles when presented with the 
ESEQ files, but not with the Enhanced Midi Files.

Incidentally I found that the ZHOU03.fil will not play back correctly.  
This ESEQ files shows a time of over 1 hr 24 min and is silent on 
playback.  The music may well be there somewhere but I did not wait for 
more than 3 minutes before stopping playback.  The midi file 
(ZHOU003.mid) plays back fine so the problem appears to be only with the 
ESEQ version of this particular file. 

Tom

PianoBench@... wrote:

> Good afternoon, everyone.
>
> In a message dated 2/9/04 4:30:20 PM, Tom writes:
>
>> 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. 
>
>
> Actually, all three file types--XP, Enhanced, and E-SEQ--have an 
> embedded "sequencer-specific meta event" that the Disklavier uses to 
> display the song titles. Since the Disklaver displays 2 lines of 16 
> characters each, I put the song title (as best I could) in the first 
> 16 characters and the artist's name in the second 16 characters.
>
> In addition, I used a Yamaha in-house program to create directory 
> files for each collection of file types. One of those directory files 
> contains (redundantly) the same song title information.
>
> I have not used YamPlayer, so I don't know how it determines the 
> titles that it displays. But, I can confidently say that the same 
> information is present in every song file. The song titles will show 
> up on the Disklavier regardless as to whether the directory files are 
> present.
>
> Regards,
> PianoBench
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