Disklavier

Hmm, your 4th (and most important) request could be an interesting DKVBrowser feature...

Of course, it would mean that a PC would have to be on and running DKVBrowser while you were using that feature, but maybe that would be acceptable?

I suppose it makes sense to wait and see what Yamaha delivers in this next promised release, but I don't think it would be difficult for me to implement this... Basically, you point DKVBrowser at a directory, and tell it to play the MIDI files in there...it would seamlessly place them on the piano, and start playing...in the background, it could move the next file there, and when the first file is done, it can automatically remove it and place the third file there.  I already have the code to detect when a song is "finishing" since I needed that for the "source random" feature.  Hmm...

-Kevin




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From: mjburby <mark.burby@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, October 20, 2009 12:49:52 PM
Subject: [disklavier] Request for better network functionality

  
Hi

Not sure if this has been posted about before, but one feature I would LOVE to see implemented on a future version of software is the ability for the Disklavier to be able to access files from a networked hard drive. Having access to networked hard drives offers many benefits including elimination of storage limitations, stream music direct from the remote storage to the piano over the network, cleaner backup of the internal hard drive, ability to manage files better, no need to physically attach anything (USB stick USB hard drive or CD) to the Disklavier other than the network cable which nearly all of us have already.

Currently, the PRC has been programmed so that you don't get to chose which locations it looks in, the PRC has these preset; you click on CD to access the CD drive, USB for the USB port, and FromToPC to access the FromToPC folder on the Disklavier hard drive. I appreciate that this is to enhance usability and make things less complex but access to a directory list of music locations accessible to the disklavier would not phase too many people out. If necessary, this could be tucked away in the Setup section.

Firstly I would like to be able to list drives such as the CD, floppy, USB, and hard disk as a list, and drill into the directory structure of each.

Secondly, I'd like the ability to add network drives to this list.

Thirdly, I'd like to be able to have the facility to move/copy files from one location to another e.g. from my disklavier hard drive to my network drive or vice versa

Fourthly (and most importantly) , to have the ability to play music stored on a network drive directly, streaming it real time over the network (this could be buffered in the disklavier much as the internet radio streams do) to basically obviate the need for the attached hard drive.

I don't think I'm asking for too much - the functionality is there but the UI on the PRC doesn't give you access to it.

Providing this functionality effectively eliminates the issue of the built in hard disk space limitation and provides a cleaner way to ensure that the disklavier hard drive is backed up.

Please please Yamaha implement this high value, low effort facility.