Disklavier

Kevin,

I did not try using the EXIT function from the menu. But I did try quiting from the menu.
If you use the red button on the Mac DKVBrowser application window to quit the program,
the message or option to put the piano in standby mode is given. If you use, this means
to quit DKVBrowser then there is barely a problem with having to reconnect twice and
seems to run flawlessly.

If you use the "Quit" from menubar, you will find that the program does not really quit and
you end up having to "force quit" from the application icon that is in the Macintosh dock.

I have also found out that if you (Step 1) either put your mail program into a "manual
mode to get mail" or put it in "offline mode" and also leave your internet browser
application open and (Step 2) then use the airport icon along the right side of the Mac
menubar to choose between your home network (which runs your internet and mail
servicees) and the disklavier network (usually DKV ##### where ##### or numbers) that
the DKV Browser application seems to run just fine. In other words, it is not necessary to
quit the Mail app or Internet Browser applications when using airport extreme network.

We are able to have our piano in standby mode, switch to the DKV ##### network after
adjusting our mail app and then search or select a piano song, playlist and play that song,
then immediately switch back to our internet or mail. Of course at this point the network
connection with the disklavier is broken, but the piano continues to play the list of songs
or songs in an album or single song. We can then switch back as we wish to control the
piano as long as we disable the get mail mode. This just requires that we close the
current DKV Browser window using the red button to quit and selecting "no" to put piano
in standby and relaunch the DKV Browser program again for control or selection of more
songs.

It works fine for us and we can use any of 3 or 4 computers on the network in our home to
control the piano. It has been great! It does what I want, search and play and control
volume and extra nice to actually put in and out of standby from another part of the
house.

The other features for editing and such would be nice, but love what you have so far and
addresses what my foremost wish which was for searching and cataloging capability.

I will be glad to test any new versions as they come around.

I have not gotten the "Clear" button to actually work or the "Find" button at the bottom of
the screen. I assumed the "Clear" button was to clear the text in search text box, but it
appears to not do anything. I assume the "Find" button was to find the current song
playing and this function does not seem to work as well.

I saw that when under the "pianosoft" or "user tabs" that a comment edit field did appear
when I double clicked in those areas of screen (column 2). But I did not try to type
anything in to those text fields yet. When I went to the third column (for rating I believe)
the rating pop-down menu with stars appeared on the screen and I was able to select a
star, but a strange thing happened and this pop-down menu field then appeared in the
second column and even when I scrolled down to refresh the screen it remained. So I
believe I left that tab and came back, not sure if it disappeared at that point or not.
Figuring that these features not working fully, I opted not to write to my hard drive yet.

The F1 and F2 keys on my laptop are assigned to screen brightness currently and have not
tested on my Mac Pro to see if I can edit titles. I did attempt to move or copy a file in my
user library and it came up with a menu option with two choices: make an album and
delete a file. I choose make an album and I created to blank albums in my user library.
No files were moved or copied as far as I could tell and opted to stop at this point.

I will play with some more and get more details of the steps to better document what
occurs.

Joan

--- In disklavier@yahoogro ups.com, Kevin Goroway wrote:
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> I'm glad you are having fun with DKVBrowser. I primarily wrote it because of the lack of
a search feature, and it grew from there. The volume control, and lots of other things
came from user requests...so keep 'em coming!
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> The two starts issue is most likely a weak network signal. I have that problem
occasionally as well. Someone on the list said there is a way to boost the signal that
comes from the piano, but I haven't heard anything more on that topic. It's worse when
DKVBrowser looses the signal while it is working (I haven't written the code to detect that
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> There are lots of great uses for the comments section, I think. I like to put the original
artist in there...so, that way I can search for say "Billy Joel" and find all of his songs that I
have stored. It was always there, but there was no way to search, so they were pretty
useless...forget about how hard it is to enter them from the PDA!
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> You question about it being available on the Mac deserves special attention. There is no
such thing as a Mac version, per se. Since it's written in java, there is only one version. All
features are available everywhere (including Linux, but I don't think anyone is using it on
Linux yet). There are a few points though along these lines.
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> 1) I've been told that the menu "Exit" doesn't ask the question about putting the piano
in standby on the Mac. Since I don't have a Mac, I can't do much about this. I also
understand that the menu system is different on the Mac, so that is probably the cause.
It's very likely that I could do something different in the code to support this, but I haven't
stumbled across anything (nor have I searched!).
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> 2) Nancy has been packaging a special Mac version that makes it much easier to get up
and running the first time. There were times when that packaged version was a release or
so behind the latest. However, once I stop adding external libraries (it doesn't happen
often), you will always be able to take the latest primary release, and replace a single file
in your working installation from it and you will be current.
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> Enjoy!
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: jheitzeb1
> To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:22:53 PM
> Subject: [disklavier] Re: Mark IV Disklavier DKVBrowser with Macintosh works ... Thanks
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> > Subject: [disklavier] Mark IV Disklavier DKVBrowser with Macintosh works ... Thanks
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