Hi Jim,
The MF's can be of help but not all styles present will be listed there. On top of that there are many, many premium Yamaha styles (Musicsoft) that don't have (a) song tiltle(s) mentioned at the info page. They are just referring to a genre or genres for which that style can be used. (Flippers Slowrock for example doesn't mention a title but perfect for the Platters song Only You (perhaps a wrong example since the song is played this time but usually it isn't in other style demo's) . Especially if the premium style is an older one. The new ones now usually (thank you Yamaha!) mentioned the song it is based upon. In the expansion packs the title confusion gets even bigger since there is no refenrence to any songs they were based upon, while they were clearly made from existing songs. As an example: 70sSchlager1 is almost a copy of the song called "Ein festival der Liebe" by Jürgen Marcus.
It would be really nice if user knowledge from those interested could be combined to create a combined list because it can be really frustrating when you hear a familiar title whiel listening to an intro but being able to put a name to it (the "it's on the tip of my tongue, what IS the title?" feeling). It is also very time consuming and difficult when you want to play a certain song or create a registration or MF entry for a song you want to play browsing to endless folders (preset/premium/expansion) in order to find an appropriate style. A list that is filled with those styles and the song titles that are added to that list for those styles not in a MFinder list would be very helpful.
Perhaps you could drop me a pm with your e-mail if you are interested to see if we could combine some of the recognized titles with these unmentioned styles
I'm working on one for already a few months and even recorded all my yamaha styles (preset/expansion/premium/converted yamaha presets from different keyboards) to mp3. That way I can audition them on my pc and check/verify with a you tube version of the song to see if it is right one. After confirmation I then tag the mp3 with that title so that I can query my mpo3 database later on when I am searching for a "song style".
There are many 3rd party companies selling real song styles and plenty opf them circulate on teh internet as well in user collections but imo they are so-so at best when compared to a Yamaha quality style.
kind regards,
Peter