Disklavier

With all due respect to Yamaha and particularly the "face" that we all know
and are thankful to have in our corner- Bill Brandom, I love the way Kevin
unintentionally but effectively keeps nudging Yamaha to continue with their
commitment to making sure the DKV stays the world's greatest piano. By the
way, weren't we supposed to be hearing something about a new release about a
month ago? 

 

Thank you both for all that you do for us.     

 

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From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Kevin Goroway
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:39 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Request for better network functionality

 

  

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.