Installing Bonus Playlist from Yamaha

[torben]

Hi

To avoid unplugging the usb (usb1) underneath the Genos would it be possible to copy the playlist folder from another usb (usb2) to usb1?

Torben

[DavidB]

No, it will not copy all the needed files. You must load them directly the USB stick in USB1.

[Jodecra]

Hi Paul,

is it possible to copy the "Bonus Playlist for Genos" from Yamaha to the user memory instead of copying tot the USB stick? And is it possible to copy the playlist in one long list, in alphabetic order?

Thanks 

Johan

[zionip]

Hi Paul,

is it possible to copy the "Bonus Playlist for Genos" from Yamaha to the user memory instead of copying tot the USB stick? And is it possible to copy the playlist in one long list, in alphabetic order?

Thanks 

Johan

Hi Johan,

Once finished installing the Yamaha provided bonus playlist for Genos, you can copy the resulting new playlist from your USB stock to Genos internal SSD 'User'.  I tested it from User and it worked fine, recalling proper registrations, styles, and MIDI files.

You can download a sorted playlist based on Genos Preset 'Example' and the Yamaha provided Bonus Genos playlist, unzip it and save the .tsv file on your USB stick, then load the .tsv file on your Genos and save it on 'User':
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1csPuJkQlt44e14oxSEkARiOXQzBai7hS/view?usp=sharing

There is no built-in sort or search functions with Playlist screen yet.  However, we can easily sort the Playlist file on our computer.

You can save your playlist file on Genos to the root directory of a USB stick inserted on the Genos.  Then you can insert that USB stick to a computer and copy that playlist file with the file extension of .tsv to your computer.  The playlist file is just a single line text file.

You can sort the playlist on your computer using Microsoft Word, which handle line breaks automatically.  If you open the playlist file using Notepad, you will just see one super long line, very confusing, so do not use Notepad.

You can open that .tsv file using winword.exe, change the Layout to Landscape, Margins to 0.5 inch all around, Page Size Legal.

1.  When prompted for "File Conversion", choose "Windows (default)", click "OK".
2.  Control-A to select all lines, then Home - select font size 6 (type in 6 for font size), so all lines are self-contained without being splitting any line into two separate lines.
3.  Click on the left of the 3rd line, where the first song line appears, and highlight the whole line.
     The first two line should look like this, and do not select them:
      TITLE   FILEPATH   REGIST   OPENVIEWER
      [About This Playlist]   D:/REGIST/About This Playlist.rgt   0   TEXT
4.  Scroll to the bottom of the file.  While holding the Shift key, click to the left of the last line - so from 3rd line to last line is selected.
5.  In the top middle of Home, there is an icon with A-Z down arrow, click it for "Sort Text", choose "Field 1" for "Sort by", "Text" for "Type", in "Ascending" order.  Now you have sorted the playlist.
6.  Click "File", "Save as" Plain Text file.  You can retain the same file name, but winword will append .txt after the filename.
7.  When prompted for "File Conversion", choose "Windows (Default)", click "OK".
8.  Copy the new playlist text file from your computer to the USB stick, then rename your new playlist text file on your USB stick by deleting the ".txt" from the filename.  For example, using "cmd.exe", you can change directory to the USB stick, in my case , it was W: drive:
     W:\>rename User_Examples_sorted1.tsv.txt User_Example_sorted1.tsv

You can then load this new sorted playlist file on Genos.  At least this sorted playlist will help you locate the song much easier than when it was unsorted.

Thanks,
Paul

[nugroho2]

I believe it will be easier if you use Excel instead of Words to sort files.

[Fred Smith]

I believe it will be easier if you use Excel instead of Words to sort files.

It's even easier if you use Google sheets, as it handles TSV files better than Excel.

Also, this advice would apply only to the PSR series, as the Genos has an icon to sort a Playlist.

Cheers,
Fred