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Help playing WAV files from USB thumb drive on PX350


GEFool

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I'm ready to bang my head against the wall. So far I love the PX-350 until I tried to follow the manual to load songs from the CD on my beginner piano course and play them on the PX-350 for playing along.

I've made sure the files were 44.1/16 WAV format. I formatted the USB device. I have tried putting the files into the PLAY folder and the AUDIO folder. The piano will not recognize the files. (Reads 'no file' on the display)

Any help from someone who has this figured out would be appreciated.

Rick

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I second Brad's post. Unless your wavfiles are listed exactly as Casio specifies and rad described, it will not recognize any .wav file no matter what the original form is. A little weird convention of the PX350 but renaming the files will work if in the proper 16-bit 44.1khz .wav format for the Casio.

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Dang it! (use of stronger phrase really desired here!!!)

 

I just renamed all the files and put them in the AUDIO folder.  No go on User Songs operation or Function/Audio Recorder operation.

 

How do I play the dang files????  Why is this so hard????  Do I need to capitalize the WAV extension?  I did on some just to see.   Still no go.

 

So, if I rename the files TAKEXX.WAV (done) and place them in the AUDIO folder (done), how do I play them?  I'm obviously not hitting the right buttons or sequence of buttons.  I guess I'm confusing the playback operations for files recorded ON the DP, files stored on the USB flash drive, and MIDI files or whatever else there is.

 

Thank you, for trying to help this luddite.

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OK... I am thinking the deal is that my USB flash drive is not 'mounting'.  When I insert it, there is no "Media Mounting" message or "*****" displaying that indicates the DP even recognizes the USB.

 

Any thoughts?  BTW, the USB did format from the DP so it must have 'seen it'.   I deleted all data, reformatted, confirmed it is FAT32, and reloaded all the data again.  The manual states I should see appropriate messages (see above) when inserting the USB.  I don't.

 

Any help there?  Stupid electronics!  This is why I play bluegrass mandolin and guitar.  No electronics required, lol. 

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back to square one.  It does indicate "****" when I push the Function/Audio Record operation.  I guess I'm still not putting it in the correct folder with the correct operation.  I'm reading that the two options are:

 

User Songs - files must be located in the AUDIO folder

 

or 

 

Function/Audio Recorder - files must be located in PLAY A, B, C, or D

 

Is that right?

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GEFool-the folders marked A B C D are not for audio (.wav) files. Those are for midi (.mid also called smf files) which you can transfer directly from your computer to the thumb drive, then access and play when the thumb drive is connected to the Casio. Only the folder marked "audio" will be for playing not with the 'song recorder" but the "audio recorder".  Now the Casio will automatically place songs you record with the "audio recorder" into the audio folder only. if you want to play audio files from other sources, you must capitalize all the letters-strange but true. I only noticed this because all my audio recordings made from the Casio audio recorder default to this automatically.

 

One more thing-song recorder songs (not audio recorder songs) are automatically saved as .csr files in the "recorder' folder-these are data files recorded using the17-track sequencer recorder. You can save these as .mid files from the PX350 onto the thumb drive where the folder "musiclib" will come in handy. and yes none of this will happoen if the thumb drive is 'unmounted".

 

 

 

How do I know all this? 2 reasons, no 3, no 4 reasons (Monty Python skit). 1) I have my thumb drive in my computer as we speak or I'd never remember any of this and 2) here at the Musician's Rest Home for the Sonically Deranged,  they do let me send out posts if i behave myself and i've been good today, I only mashed my PX350 once, and it was only a "love tap" not meant to hurt it. :P 

 

I am also a big Bluegrass fan among many other styles-Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, and Doc Watson are three of my all-time favorite musicians. Also many of the virtuoso Country-Buck Owens and Chet Atkins come to mind as of course Flatt and Scruggs and all their musical offspring.  It is not an easy transition from keys to strings, I have nothing but respect for the great flat-pickers/finger pickers and claw-hammer players of which I am certainly not one!

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Thank you all for the help so far. Update on my progress. I was finally able to play audio.wav files using the TAKExx.WAV format in the AUDIO folder. I was able to find the Play operation using the Function and Audio Record buttons but I tried so many variations of pushing the buttons, I haven't been able to complete the operation on command. I have found the sequence three times, so I know it can be done. I'll eventually figure it out as I know what to look for on the menu screen. I just don't know how to find that menu on demand! :-)

The issue now is volume. When I play the music files the volume is excrutiatingly loud. I have to turn the volume down very low. This means that when I play piano I cannot hear what I am playing, only the music file. So.... I have had it suggested that I use Audacity to adjust the volume of the files down. I have also discovered a menu that showed a volume adjustment for playback, but I haven't tried that yet. Once I figure that out, the ablility play accompanying music on the piano will be beneficial to me. Too much work to complete what I would have thought should have been a simple task.

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UPDATE:

 

I have been able to play audio files on the DP... finally.  Problem:  volume is SO LOUD that I have to turn the volume knob down very low and now I cannot hear myself play along.

 

Next, took the file to Audacity and reduced the volume down -24 dB.  That solved it.  So, what I have learned is:

 

You have to convert all audio track files to WAV 44.1/16 stereo with the exact format  TAKExx.WAV  So that is done by necessity ONE AT A TIME.

Next, you have to check and adjust the volume of the tracks using an sound file editing program such as Audacity.  Again done by necessity ONE AT A TIME.

 

Giant PITA.  Better just to find a CD player and play along with the CD on an external source, so that rules out silent playing.  Jeez.

 

Does anyone know a way to adjust the playback volume in the processor/thru the DP that doesn't lower the volume of the played keys?  That would make life much simpler.

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  • 1 year later...

GEFool--You use the function key, then the side arrows til you find the volume control. Then you turn down the volume on the 'song' that's playing and turn up the volume on the accompaniment. This will allow your playing along to be at a volume which you can hear, without the song volume overpowering your playing. I find that the setting will stay on many songs you play back during the same session, but you will have to set up the volume again if you tuen the DP off and then on again. Hope this helps.

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