Advertising

August 2nd, 2010

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

July 7th, 2010

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

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New look

July 1st, 2010

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

June 24th, 2010

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

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One year in …

June 21st, 2010

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

May 18th, 2010

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

May 12th, 2010

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

April 14th, 2010

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

April 1st, 2010

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

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Feed me

March 23rd, 2010

Another brief update – some time ago someone suggested that the forums had an RSS / Atom feed so that users can keep up to date with new posts without having actually having to visit the forums.

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