Tunes galore

March 5th, 2010

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

tunepal.org

March 2nd, 2010

I’ve mostly used this blog for posting updates about the abcnotation.com website. However, I just wanted to let people know about tunepal.org, a remarkable new abc development from Bryan Duggan.

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Linux & multi-platform software

February 12th, 2010

Minor improvement to the site …

Thanks to Sue Blake who pointed out that the software page didn’t show programs that work on Linux / Unix machines and gave me a list of those that do.

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You what?

February 5th, 2010

One of the joys of running a website is discovering all the different ways people find of trying to subvert it.

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How to understand abc … the basics

January 31st, 2010

UPDATE: This blog post has now been superseded by a video How to understand abc notation … the basics.

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The abc website

January 15th, 2010

There are still loads of links out there for the old versions of the abc website address and I’m just putting up this message in the vain hope that people might correct them.

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Top of the Pops 2

January 5th, 2010

I’ve just amended – slightly – the code that creates the top tune charts so that it now excludes recent winners for a week.

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Top of the pops

December 30th, 2009

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.

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How to get started with abc notation

December 23rd, 2009

UPDATE: This blog post has now been superseded by a video How to get started with abc notation.


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Merry Christmas

December 21st, 2009

Well, it’s been some time since I last blogged – nearly three months. Eek!

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