Normal service has now been resumed

Those of you who follow this blog or keep up to date via facebook may have noticed a resounding silence from these parts over the past couple of months.

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Advertising

The abc website has carried Google “adsense” adverts for a while now – they help to pay for the web hosting, amongst other things. However, they are not always very relevant to the site.

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Copyright first

When I originally set up the tune search I planned not to display copyright tunes.

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New look

Not content with giving the blog a makeover, I’ve just redesigned the page layout for the rest of the site.

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Blog makeover

I’ve just given the blog a bit of a makeover.

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One year in …

The new version of the abc website – abcnotation.com – launched on 21st June 2009, is one year old today.

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New abc javascript renderer

In another exciting development for abc, Gregory Dyke and Paul Rosen have just released their javascript abc renderer, abcjs.

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New tunes for May

I’ve just released the May edition of the tune search – now with 61,000 tunes, including several thousand newly added song melodies from the Digital Tradition archive. Enjoy!

Chris

Search 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 a specific abc file).

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Highly recommended

I’ve been busy out the back again, working on another little feature for the site – a recommender system.

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