Copyright first

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

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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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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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Tunes 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

tunepal.org

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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You what?

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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Top 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.

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How to get started with abc notation

[the first in a series of articles on using and understanding abc]

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Merry Christmas

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

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Even more

I’ve been busy out the back, working on some of the internal mechanisms of the tune search.

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