After the hard drive is formatted, turn off the KD-7, disconnect it, then connect it to your PC.
Insert a player piano CD into the CD drive, and open your CD burner program (like Nero).
Select the Convert Audio CDs to Audio Files.
Select the Destination Location (the USB hard drive you just connected)
Output file format: PCM wav file
Frequency: 44100
Bits: 16
Channels: Stereo
Select the CD tracks you want to copy
Select: GO
After the song files are copied, you will need to change the file extensions as follow:
For Yamaha Piano Soft Plus change from; My Song.wav to My Song.wdk
For QRS Pianomation CD file from; My Song.wav to My Song.wpm
For Pianodisc Player Piano CD from; My Song.wav to My Song.wpd
For Audio CD or MIDI file; no extension change is needed
Windows has the Auto-Hiding of known file extension.
TO RENAME THE FILE CORRECTLY YOU SHOULD FIRST TURN OFF AUTO-HIDING EXTENSION FEATURE IN
WINDOWS:
1. Open the Windows menu
2. Select Tools
3. Choose Folder Options
4. Select View
5. Uncheck Hide extensions for known file types
6. Select OK/Apply
SONG FILES CAN BE STORED IN ROOT POSITION OR IN FOLDERS. NOTE: ROOT POSITION HAS PRIOROTY!
IT IS RECOMENDED TO ORGANIZE YOUR SONGS IN FOLDERS. IF LONG UNINTERRUPTED PLAYBACK IS
REQUIRED, CONSIDER CREATING A FOLDER AND COPY LARGE NUMBER OF SONGS INTO IT.
AFTER THE SONG FILES ARE COPIED AND RENAMED, BE SURE THAT THE HDD OR ANY USB DEVICE IS
DISCONNECTED FROM THE PC CORRECTLY. USE “UNPLUG USB DEVICE” (green icon near the clock), BEFORE
HDD IS PHYSICALLY DISCONNECTED. When this function is used - the system stores all unstored sectors
onto disk.
When the data is not stored, disk content can be corrupted.
IMPORTANT !
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