>
> I agree with all of what Phil said. Although the "Live" channel does have live
> (played by a person) classical music which is much better than the classical
> station.
>
> And, I do think it repeats songs a bit too often. Out of interest, I kept track
> of every single song played for a while and came up with the total number of
> songs in rotation for each channel. I was surprised at how low it was.
>
> On a technical note, *NONE* of this is actually "streamed", as in, played while
> it is downloading. All of it is downloaded to the piano before it is played.
> They pre-cache the next 2 things to be played, which is why the WAVs are ready
> to be played when required. I don't think they are capable of streaming the
> WAVs in real-time...however, if they would add MP3 capabilities, the whole thing
> would be possible...
>
> -Kevin
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Phil Blah <phil.blah@...>
> To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 6:55:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [disklavier] Internet Radio Review
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Well since you asked :) I originally thought the radio was expensive per month..
> but I think it's a great idea for when you just get stuck in your music ways and
> just need someone else to choose the next song for you.
>
> The only problem is many songs they have are great/fine... then you get this
> horrible song that needs to be banned, infact yamaha should be embarrised that
> even have it! - you all know those horrible cheasy mostly using the syth with a
> bad piano riff... god...
>
> I really wish someone at yamaha would play a nice modern version of pop/movie
> songs, beautiful on the piano - (pop as in modern movie music [no the god father
> is old now and so is forest gump and ghost] or mostly a song that is not
> horrible that everyone hates.. or is like 40+ years old)... the song does NOT
> have to be the exact same beat/tempo... So many Madonna and even dead old
> michael jackson or other movie songs - songs would be great properly played on
> the piano with feeling...
>
>
> If you ever search for midi's on the net, most of yamaha's radio on the pop
> section are like that.
>
> With the classical section, most of these songs hammer the piano to death and
> make it go out of tune, sorry but classical songs are depressing and boring
> after a while, if you just want to clean the house or have a few friends over,
> you can't have them bashing away without annoying you and everyone else. -
> actually I don't mind classical music, but you just have to be in the mood and
> many of the yamaha songs are all robotic with no feeling. - I would rather the
> free classic songs played LIVE properly by people like Finley etc.
>
> In the end, it's a fun service and it is addictive... the real thing that will
> take these pianos to 2011 is forget the horrible synths (yes i have a mark4)
> and stream proper audio with the midi... so you can have the live band playing
> and the original piano WAS a disklavier and so you ONLY hear your piano as the
> piano, not some crappy over the top thing. Hearing a human sing with a real
> drumkit and base is just excellent.
>
> They stream waves in the demo tracks so it would not take much to just
> intergrate midi with it.
>
> Anyway, just buy a month and see for yourself.
>
> Cya
>
> Philip
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: nehs1975 <nehs1975@...>
> To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, 9 May, 2011 5:23:50 AM
> Subject: [disklavier] Internet Radio Review
>
>
> For folks who are currently subscribed to Yamaha's internet radio, I'd like to
> know your experience with it. I haven't seen any Amazon.com-like review on the
> internet about it. I'm thinking of upgrading to E3 or getting the DKC-850 to
> replace my unit. The E3/DKC-850 desire is driven for the most part by the
> appeal of internet radio, and of course the convenience of USB. I have Sirius
> satellite and find that selections, over time, tend to repeat to a point where
> you'd know you're listening to Sirius when you hear song selections/groups being
> played.
>
>
> Wondering if such is the case with Yamaha's internet radio? What else do you
> like with the internet radio aside from what's advertised as its selling points?
>