RECORDING AND MAILING A ZIPPED UP SONG FILE
I will assume that everyone knows how to record a song on their keyboard. If not the instructions for that are in your manual. Basically you just set up your keyboard the same as you do to play a song. Then push easy record button and agree with everything it asks you and play your song into the keyboard. Turn the recording off when you are done playing. Now push the disc button, then the save button, and save it in technics format. Be sure you have a formatted disc in the harddrive. Now you have the song on a floppy and it is time to zip it up.
I think WinZip is the best all around program for our use.
To send a zip file from your floppy do this.
Put the floppy in the computer floppy drive.
Don't start an email and then try to add to it.
Start with the zip file and then add the text to the email it makes and
mail it.
Click on your A drive and bring up the files on the floppy.
Highlight the files you want to zip.
You can hold down control and click each one or you can hold down shift
and click on the first and last file in a row you want to send.
Once they are highlighted right click on one of them and then left click
on Zip and email (files) to:
your WinZip file will open and make the zip file and send it to an email
file.
Now on the email file just click an address into it and then write
text to it and mail it.
This is especially valuable for sending technics format as there are
usually 6 files for each song so 20 songs would be 120 files. You don't
want to send somebody 120 loose files in an email. so you zip them and
send them one zip file and they unzip it to a floppy and stick it in the
keyboard and it is playing 2 minutes after it got there.
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It is easy to unzip too. Just double click on the zip file and the WinZip
will open up, (assuming you have installed it on your computer). click on
extract. In the window that opens, just type in where you want it to go. I
usually put A:/ so it goes right to the floppy drive, but I also have a Directory on
the hard drive named UNZIP for them because sometimes you need to renumber the files.
You can only have one number per group of song files or they won't show up in the load
window in your keyboard.
This is maybe too general for some so ask any questions here on the forum and someone will give you the answer you need or even another way to do this that they like better.
BEBOP