Disklavier

Some songs are more hearable than others.. long holding top and base notes, with scattery random notes... so its totally spoiled.

They might of introduced some sort of error correction and things to stop glitches, although it's pretty silly in my view sending nothing more than midi data via audio, the song should be 13k but is 3meg!

If they were streaming better music with singing/drums etc audio with the midi data then it would be REALLY cool, infact I suppose by using this format there is nothing stopping them! could open lots of windows..hmm.

Mark, if you get a normal 'PianoDisk' right now, do you have the same problem if you play it on a Yamaha system? Are there tools to covert?

Cheers,
Philip




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From: Mark Fontana <mfontana@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 8 May, 2010 3:40:42 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Piano Disc streaming radio

  

On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 22:16 -0700, Phil Blah wrote:

> Yeah I tried this stream with my mark4, it sorta works, but has lots
> of bad notes constantly playing at random... so the 'piano disk' must
> have a slightly different format.

If you are hearing long, held notes on top of music that otherwise
sounds OK, this is PianoDisc's deliberate attempt to make their music
unplayable on competitors' systems, introduced in 2005, known as "Silent
Drive Plus".

If you can barely recognize the song, it's probably the effect of the
minor format change I mentioned in a previous posting.

Mark Fontana