Disklavier

Thanks, Mark,

I tried your suggestions and first used exactaudiocopy to creat the FLAC file.  I was amazed that it took a file that was about 34k and created a 25 meg flac file.  Maybe I did something wrong.  Then I installed the foobar.org [layer, not sure how to get it to create the files for the Disklavier DKC-850.  

My objective was to take the CD's that I have and put them in a library that I can then access via my LAN connection to play on the disklavier.

Do you know what I might have done wrong?

Thanks

Ray


--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Mark Fontana <mfontana@...> wrote:
>
> 
> There aren't really files on these CDs - the ".cda" files you see are an
> abstraction created by Windows when you attempt to view the directory of
> an audio CD.
> 
> If your CDs have accompaniment, there's no way to convert them to MIDI
> or ESEQ files preserving the accompaniment audio, as those formats do
> not support it.   Instead, you would want to rip the CD tracks to FLAC
> format; a good tool for this is Exact Audio Copy:
> http://www.exactaudiocopy.de
> 
> This would give you tagged files for each song which you could then
> stream to the Disklavier using suitable music jukebox software, such as
> the excellent Foobar2000: http://www.foobar2000.org
> 
> Both tools are free for non-commercial use.
> 
> Disklavier CD tracks should not be ripped to MP3 format, because its
> lossy compression distorts the piano control signal too severely, making
> playback unreliable.
> 
> Mark Fontana
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 19:42 +0000, raymundo_77 wrote:
> 
> > I have a number of cd's that came with my Mark III Disklavier and they
> > are in a .cda format on the cd.  I'd like to copy them to my library
> > in either the midi, FIL or other usable format.  Is there a utility
> > that can do this?  I've checked dkvutils but there doesn't seem to be
> > a utility that can do this.
>