Disklavier

Greetings sjhart110110,

I agree with a lot of what you say but it seems that few others do. I
play my LX almost exclusively through Itunes. I do not have to worry
about the volume message but there are all sorts of other
manipulations that are necessary. I have written several utilities and
have others from other sources that I use to process files to get them
to work for me. Unfortunately everyone has different needs and it is
unlikely that a program will ever be written that addresses all the
possibilities and is not hopelessly confusing. The more options, the
more difficult to make it simple and intuitive.

Personally, I think it is imperative to have documentation associated
with the file if using Itunes or any player. I want to know what I am
playing. I don't just shuffle play and leave the room. For this
reason, I have written a number of programs to automatically add text
information to MIDI and MP3 files from a master database that I
maintain. When I get new music, I find the information online
(usually) or type it in myself if I can not find it already in
computer readable form. Then I run a program that adds MP3 tags which
display in itunes. I don't know which DKVs might work with MP3 files
and have not written anything to add tags to WAV files so my solutions
are only good for those who can use MP3.

I have obtained the text information for all the Yamaha E-Comp files
and have a set of MP3s with tags and offered them to others but there
was absolutely no response so I assume that others can not use these
or just don't care about this way of playing. If MP3 files do work, it
just don't understand why people would not want these. 

Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 9:51:27 PM, you wrote:
> It works perfect! Thanks so much for your help. I'm getting closer 
> to the poor man's Mark IV   ! Seriously, with the power of iTunes 
> (ability to create playlists, etc.) this is fantastic. I'm so glad 
> Yamaha included the audio inputs to my Mark III. Heck, the ipod 
> wasn't even around when they came out with the piano. Somebody 
> should write a program which reads in all of our Pianosoft disks, 
> CDs, etc. - converts them, strips out Volume messages, creates audio 
> files, renames them (I had to read the directory files that are 
> created), etc. You then could read them into iTunes, hook your ipod 
> to your Mark III and have a fantastic easy to use system!!!! 
> Seriously, anyone with a Mark III should invest $200 in an ipod and 
> have a really easy to use system. You could probably hook a wireless 
> audio system to your ipod (they sell them) and feed your piano 
> directly without even having a connection. SJ

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