Disklavier

Piano Disc floppies or CD's do not play on a Disklavier.
There is a program available that converts Piandisc files to midi files that can be played on thre disklavier.
see http://www.giebler.com/
The program is a DOS program and may or may not work with Windows.
I have the program running under XP and have converted several PD floppies. It can be time consuming but works fine after you figure out how to use it.

I have not?found a way?to play PD cd's on a Disklavier. 

-----Original Message-----
From: uhhmmmmmmmmmm <ronjong@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:34 pm
Subject: [disklavier] Re: What other manufacturers' discs (beyond Yamaha) are compatible with my Mark IV?






I just bought a PianoDisc floppy "Piano Pleasures" PD9201 and it 
won't play on my MarkIII. Shouldn't this floppy work in a 
disklavier? When I insert the floppy in my PC, it says it is 
unformatted (I don't know if that's what it should do or not). Any 
ideas?

Thank you.

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Carol Beigel" <thecarolb@...> 
wrote:
>
> If you buy either QRS or PianoDisc songs on FLOPPY
> disks, they are compatible with a Disklavier. When
> MIDI files come on a CD, the MIDI part is encoded and
> now locked on these new copy protection schemes. You
> don't really want the audio anyway, since you daughter
> wants to do the singing. I personally have found the
> QRS floppies to be quite fine.
> 
> Carol Beigel
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "robjohan" <robjohan@...>
> To: <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:14 AM
> Subject: [disklavier] What other manufacturers' discs
> (beyond Yamaha) are compatible with my Mark IV?
> 
> 
> > I have a new Yamaha DGC1M4 Mark IV piano and I am
> trying to find out
> > what other manufacturer's discs will play in my
> system. Are QRS,
> > Pianodisc, Pianomation, and other non-Yamaha discs
> compatible with the
> > Mark IV? Does anyone have a list of non-yamaha
> compatible discs?
> > Freddy at Yamaha suggested I post this message on
> this site. The main
> > reason that I am asking is that we purchased the
> Disklavier for my
> > daughter who is an aspiring musical theater/singer
> and we want her to
> > be able to rehearse at home with pre-recorded piano
> accompaniment. She
> > will be starring in Annie Get Your Gun and Thoroughly
> Modern Millie in
> > a few months and I am having a hard time finding
> these song files (I
> > could not find them in any of the Yamaha discs). I
> did find some of
> > the Annie Get Your Gun songs on a QRS CD (Broadway
> Musicals I QRS
> > Catalog #400401) but there is a disclaimer that says
> that "QRS Music
> > CD's produced after 1/1/05 are designed expressly for
> the use with QRS
> > Pianomation Systems, and we do not guarantee
> compatibility with other
> > brands ..." Can anyone out there give us some
> giudance? Thanks!
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