Disklavier

Good evening, everyone.

I am out of town at the moment, so I cannot try this:

Has anyone tried accessing the From/ToPC folder on their PC and  
copying a shortcut to one of their PC folders to that location?

Regards,
PianoBench

www.georgelitterst.com
www.timewarptech.com

On Oct 20, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Kevin Goroway wrote:

>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
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