Disklavier

You can rip Disklavier CD tracks to files in a lossless format such as
Apple Lossless or FLAC and play them from a computer or media player
that supports these formats.  MP3 and similar lossy codecs will not work
reliably for Disklavier tracks, even at high bitrates, due to the type
of modulation used.

On Windows, some useful free programs for this kind of project are Exact
Audio Copy (to rip the CDs to FLAC format) and Foobar2000 (for
jukebox-style FLAC playback and file tagging).  MP3Tag is another handy
tagging program that also supports FLAC files.

For Apple Lossless, iTunes is your best bet.

It would be handy if the E3 and 850 controllers would support Apple
Lossless or FLAC, but this seems unlikely to happen.

Mark Fontana


On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 21:49 +0000, kassey22000 wrote:

> Has anyone found a way to allow for placing individual CD tracks into
> storage?  It's great that we can access/play the many .mid/.fil files
> stored internally or on external USB drives, but it would be so handy
> to cherry-pick the best tunes off the many pianosoft CDs and make a
> master play list of this music.  I understand that Mark IV systems can
> store audio CD tracks (up to the internal drive limit), but how about 
> E3 and 850 owners?  
> 
> Can the controllers even play .wav/mp3/?? file formats? Or is it
> hard-wired to just read off the CD player unit?
> 
> 
> Happy Holidays!