abc notation blog occasional musings on the world of abc …

05/03/2010

Tunes galore

Filed under: Tunes,Website — Tags: , , , — Chris @ 8:26 pm

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

02/03/2010

tunepal.org

Filed under: Announcements — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Chris @ 7:37 am

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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12/02/2010

Linux & multi-platform software

Filed under: Announcements,Software,Website — Tags: , , , , — Chris @ 8:42 pm

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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05/02/2010

You what?

Filed under: Thoughts,Website — Tags: , , , , — Chris @ 6:30 pm

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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31/01/2010

How to understand abc … the basics

Filed under: How to ... — Tags: , , , — Chris @ 6:14 pm

UPDATE: This blog post has now been superseded by a video How to understand abc notation … the basics.

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15/01/2010

The abc website

Filed under: Website — Tags: , , , , — Chris @ 10:34 pm

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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05/01/2010

Top of the Pops 2

Filed under: Announcements,Tunes,Website — Tags: , , — Chris @ 5:52 pm

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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30/12/2009

Top of the pops

Filed under: Announcements,Tunes,Website — Tags: , , , — Chris @ 6:23 pm

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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23/12/2009

How to get started with abc notation

Filed under: How to ... — Tags: , , , , , — Chris @ 12:14 pm

UPDATE: This blog post has now been superseded by a video How to get started with abc notation.


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21/12/2009

Merry Christmas

Filed under: Announcements,Thoughts,Tunes,Website — Tags: , , , , , — Chris @ 8:04 pm

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

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