Even more
I’ve been busy out the back, working on some of the internal mechanisms of the tune search. Anyway, the good news is that not only is the search faster now, but also it ignores accented characters....
View ArticleHow to get started with abc notation
[the first in a series of articles on using and understanding abc] Contents: Finding the dots to a tune Viewing and/or listening to abc notation Further reading So you’ve heard about abc notation and...
View ArticleTop of the pops
I’ve been amusing myself over the Christmas period by writing a bit of code that works out the top ten tune pages visited and searches made recently. You can see the results on the charts page (and the...
View ArticleTop of the Pops 2
I’ve just amended – slightly – the code that creates the top tune charts so that it now excludes recent winners for a week. When I was setting the charts up and running a test version I did wonder if...
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How to understand abc (the basics)
[the second in a series of articles on using and understanding abc] Contents: The structure of an abc tune The header The notes:- note lengths; bar lines; beams Putting it all together Further reading...
View ArticleTunes galore
I’ve just released the March 2010 edition of the tune search – it’s reached 56,000 tunes now, clean and shiny and just itching to be played. Chris
View ArticleHighly recommended
I’ve been busy out the back again, working on another little feature for the site – a recommender system. So the next time you look at a tune page – assuming someone else has looked at it previously –...
View ArticleSearch insight
I’ve recently enhanced the tune search by including the ability to search within the files from a particular web site. Thus you could now search, say, for jigs from a specific tune collection (or even...
View ArticleOne year in …
The new version of the abc website – abcnotation.com – launched on 21st June 2009, is one year old today. In that time, the tune search has grown from 36,000 to 61,000 tunes and today I have just...
View ArticleCopyright first
When I originally set up the tune search I planned not to display copyright tunes. Apart from the fact that I believe copyright should always be respected, I’ve already had one publisher pursuing me...
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