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Re: Making Discs

2006-10-05 by david962548

Hi

"If I could copy my Pianosoft CD's to my PC and play multiple song 
on the PC that would be great."


You can, I have ALL of my Pianosoft disks stored on the PC AND 
backed up. At 30GBP, I can't afford to have a floppy become 
corrupted.

Midi Magic



--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, ISKI1@... wrote:
>
> Even if you could put the files on a CD and play them on the 
disklavier CD  
> drive you would still be limited to 99 songs because that is the 
maximum number 
>  that can be displayed on the disklavier readout. The same for a  
floppy.
> I also have my piano connected to my PC and it works great but 
more often  
> than not it is easier to put in one of my favorite songs floppies, 
with 70 - 80  
> songs, instead of wait for the PC to bootup. 
>  With 4- 5 hours of continuous music on one floppy, it not a big 
deal  to 
> plug in another floppy if you have time to listen to more.
> So in short I do not see an advantage to having thousands of 
midi's on a  CD.
> The main reason Yamaha added a CD drive is to offer piano smart 
and  
> pianosoft accompaniment to the disklavier. A CD will typically 
only have room  for 8- 
> 20 songs when using these features.
> If I could copy my Pianosoft CD's to my PC and play multiple song 
on the PC  
> that would be great.
>

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