Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Can I host TuneGraphs on my own site?

Monday, February 12th, 2018

A number of people have seen the TuneGraphs on abcnotation.comĀ and asked if they could include them on their own website.

The short answer is yes, although there are a number of restrictions.

If you are interested in this possibility, read on.

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6 of the best – a guide to abc software

Sunday, November 12th, 2017

A few folks have asked me recently for recommendations of abc software …

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The problem with midi

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

UPDATE: The problem has now been resolved!

When I first set up the tune search, back in 2009, I seem to remember it wasn’t too difficult to provide an embedded midi player next to each tune … once I’d got around Internet Explorer’s quirks, that is.

Sadly however, it seems to be getting harder rather than easier. And it’s not just me that thinks that: as w3schools says “Playing audio in HTML is not easy!

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Happy new year

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

It’s that time of year again so I thought I’d give a quick round-up of what’s been going on here in abc land over the past year:

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October updates

Saturday, October 15th, 2011

A round-up of changes to the site since June

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June updates

Friday, June 17th, 2011

A quick round up of updates to abcnotation.com since last time:

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April updates

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

A quick round up of the changes to the site since the last update in February:

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February updates

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

Just a quick round up of some of the changes to the site that I’ve been working on over the last couple of weeks:

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And now for something a little different

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

The latest abc software development is … wait for it … an electronic greetings card service.

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Twice as big

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

I’ve just released a new edition of the tune search and I’m pleased to announce that it’s massively increased in size now with over 275,000 tunes indexed and available for searching!

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