Disklavier

I saw this old post and couldn't find a good reply to it, so I'll pass
this along....

I've had no trouble using iTunes to burn a CD with songs that match
the Smart Pianosoft floppy disk and then play it successfully in the
Mk IV.  In a couple of cases I had an old CD that didn't quite match
the version desired by the floppy -- in this case, I ripped it with
iTunes (set to wav format so there's no loss), rearranged the songs to
match the floppy, then burned a new CD which the Mk IV recognized and
read.  I've even burned a CD from song albums purchased in the iTunes
store that worked with the Smart Pianosoft floppy.

George

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "rwberry99" <rwberry@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> 
> For the most part, I've had no problems with my "Smart PianoSoft"
> (SPS) disks.  I've been pleasantly suprised how well they work.
> 
> I recently bought the SPS disk that goes with the OCR of the musical
> "Pippin".  I have owned the OCR CD for several years (and it's
catalog number didn't match the SPS disk) but I figured it was worth a
try.  I ordered the SPS disk and sure enough, when I pressed play it
simply indicated "Wrong Disk" and started playing only the
accompanying MIDI tracks.
> 
> I then order the CD through the Amazon link on the
> www.yamahamusicsoft.com site.  Looking more closely, the description
> of the CD in Amazon doesn't match the catalog number on the SPS disk
> either, but for $11.00, I thought I would take a chance.  The CD
> arrives and I get the same "Wrong Disk" message.  I poke around a few
> more sites, and found yet another version of the disk, so I ordered it
> as well.  I get the same behavior.
> 
> Now I realize, I could most likely return the SPS disk to Yamaha since
> their link appears to be broken.  But I thought I would poke around on
> the disk itself and see if I could circumvent whatever test the DKV is
> doing.
> 
> Even before ripping the diskette, the first thing I noticed was the
> the SPS disk only thinks there are 14 tracks versus the 15 track on
> all my CDs.  So I ripped the CD and burned a copy with the same
> "serial" number but with the tracks in the order the SPS disk expects.
>  The DKC doesn't even recognize the CD-R disk.
> 
> So I ripped the SPS diskette and see several MIDI files and two MNG
> files.  I figure one (or both) of the MNG files contains some kind of
> checksum that identifies the CD, but there's nothing that jumps out
> when I look at them.
> 
> Has anyone out there run into this kind of problem?  Is there a
> resolution?  Can you use some kind of magic key sequence that bypasses
> the CD check?
> 
> I haven't tried creating a floppy with the contents of a working SPS
> disk, so I'm not sure if that even works.
> 
> Just so you don't get the wrong idea, this is a legitimate copy of the
> SPS disk.  It just doesn't work.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Bob
>