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Piano-e-Competition on the web

2004-05-27 by PianoBench@aol.com

Good evening, everyone.

I trust that everyone knows that the final rounds of the 2nd Internal Piano-e-Competition are taking place this week and next at Hamline U. in St. Paul, MN. Contestants are performing on their choice of 2 Disklavier concert grands.

This week, the recital round is taking place. 22 of the 24 contestants who made the cut from the Disklavier screening round are competing. Two had to drop out for medical reasons.

After Sunday comes the Schubert Piano Sonata, Chamber Music, and Concerto Rounds followed by a gala concert played by the top 6 finalists.

All performances can be viewed and heard live on the web. In the near future, Disklavier MIDI files (Standard MIDI Files and E-SEQ) will be posted on the competition website.

For more information, go to:

http://www.piano-e-competition.com/

Regards,
PianoBench

Re: [disklavier] Piano-e-Competition on the web

2004-05-27 by Disklavier

Will any part of the competition stream the MIDI to be played on our respective disklaviers? If not this year, when?

Fred

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Good evening, everyone.

I trust that everyone knows that the final rounds of the 2nd Internal Piano-e-Competition are taking place this week and next at Hamline U. in St. Paul, MN. Contestants are performing on their choice of 2 Disklavier concert grands.

Re: [disklavier] Piano-e-Competition on the web

2004-05-27 by PianoBench@aol.com

Good morning, everyone.

Will any part of the competition stream the MIDI to be played on our respective disklaviers?

No.

If not this year, when?

I don't know. Streaming MIDI in a reliable way involves solving different issues compared to streaming audio or video. If streaming audio or video results in a few bits being dropped along the way, you may not notice the effect, or, if you do, the problem is momentary and the stream continues without difficulty.

If a stream of MIDI data drops a few bits, you could--for example--have missing note-off messages that would result in stuck notes.

It is true that there are strategies for dealing with this, and various people have proven the concept that streaming MIDI can work, even over dial-up connections. Unfortunately, there is no off-the-shelf package that is both available and reliable right now--at least none with which I am familiar.

Regards,
PianoBench

Re: Piano-e-Competition on the web

2004-06-01 by terifld

> If streaming audio or video results 
> in a few bits being dropped along the way, you may not notice
> the effect, or, 
> if you do, the problem is momentary and the stream continues 
> without difficulty.


To avoid bits dropping, the archived Realplayer video of the 
performances could be made downloadable instead of being streamed. 
Possible?

Re: Piano-e-Competition on the web

2004-06-02 by Mike McGregor

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "terifld" <terifield@y...> wrote:
> > If streaming audio or video results 
> > in a few bits being dropped along the way, you may not notice
> > the effect, or, 
> > if you do, the problem is momentary and the stream continues 
> > without difficulty.
> 
> 
> To avoid bits dropping, the archived Realplayer video of the 
> performances could be made downloadable instead of being streamed. 
> Possible?

As I recall, the ability to save Realplayer streams is a function of 
the type of Realplayer client one has.  The purchased version allows 
saving the received stream to a file, the free one does not. At 
least that was the case several years ago.  I am not current on what 
is available now.

At 100kbps nominal streaming rate, the file size would be quite 
large for an hour-long performance.

Mike McGregor

Re: Piano-e-Competition on the web

2004-06-02 by aapnoot2002

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Mike McGregor" <mcgregor@g...> 
wrote:
> --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "terifld" <terifield@y...> 
wrote:
> > > If streaming audio or video results 
> > > in a few bits being dropped along the way, you may not notice
> > > the effect, or, 
> > > if you do, the problem is momentary and the stream continues 
> > > without difficulty.
> > 
> > 
> > To avoid bits dropping, the archived Realplayer video of the 
> > performances could be made downloadable instead of being 
streamed. 
> > Possible?
> 
> As I recall, the ability to save Realplayer streams is a function 
of 
> the type of Realplayer client one has.  The purchased version 
allows 
> saving the received stream to a file, the free one does not. At 
> least that was the case several years ago.  I am not current on 
what 
> is available now.
> 
> At 100kbps nominal streaming rate, the file size would be quite 
> large for an hour-long performance.
> 
> Mike McGregor

Try "Net Transport", a free download manager. It does support real-
time streaming protocol. The multi language version can be found at 
http://lycos26486.l97.lycos.com.cn/download.htm.

I've downloaded all the streaming files quickly and conveniently. 
Setting the connection speed at 16384 kB/s (Tools menu) and the 
number of transport parts at 10 (the maximum)[tab new = Add New 
Download], the download time for a 55 MB rm-file is on average 9 
minutes.

A member

Re: [disklavier] Re: Piano-e-Competition on the web

2004-06-02 by herz magi

pleas take me out of you'r mailing list thanks.---
aapnoot2002 <aapnoot2002@...> a \ufffdcrit\ufffd: 
---------------------------------
--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Mike McGregor"
<mcgregor@g...> 
wrote:
> --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "terifld"
<terifield@y...> 
wrote:
> > > If streaming audio or video results 
> > > in a few bits being dropped along the way, you
may not notice
> > > the effect, or, 
> > > if you do, the problem is momentary and the
stream continues 
> > > without difficulty.
> > 
> > 
> > To avoid bits dropping, the archived Realplayer
video of the 
> > performances could be made downloadable instead of
being 
streamed. 
> > Possible?
> 
> As I recall, the ability to save Realplayer streams
is a function 
of 
> the type of Realplayer client one has.  The
purchased version 
allows 
> saving the received stream to a file, the free one
does not. At 
> least that was the case several years ago.  I am not
current on 
what 
> is available now.
> 
> At 100kbps nominal streaming rate, the file size
would be quite 
> large for an hour-long performance.
> 
> Mike McGregor

Try "Net Transport", a free download manager. It does
support real-
time streaming protocol. The multi language version
can be found at 
http://lycos26486.l97.lycos.com.cn/download.htm.

I've downloaded all the streaming files quickly and
conveniently. 
Setting the connection speed at 16384 kB/s (Tools
menu) and the 
number of transport parts at 10 (the maximum)[tab new
= Add New 
Download], the download time for a 55 MB rm-file is on
average 9 
minutes.

A member

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Re: [disklavier] Re: Piano-e-Competition on the web

2004-06-03 by James Fry

On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, herz magi wrote:
>  pleas take me out of you'r mailing list thanks.---

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