Posts Tagged ‘tune search’

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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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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What next?

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

What would you like to see next on abcnotation.com?

Here are some of the possibilities:

  • A tune player with speed controls – so you can listen to the midi files slowed down or speeded up
  • A tune upload facility – so you can create your own pages and even, optionally, add tunes to the tune search
  • Links to amazon.com – so you can search for recorded versions of tunes
  • A smart-phone app that connects to the tune search – so you can access it anywhere
  • Allow comments on tune pages – so you can add notes & comments
  • Melody search – so you can find tunes by searching for a sequence of notes

Vote now, or add a comment below to make more suggestions.

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A year of massive growth

Friday, December 31st, 2010

… at least, in terms of the number tunes available in the tune search.

Aside from the attention grabbing headline, it’s customary at this time of the year to take a look back at what developments have happened over the year, so I thought I might as well join in. Here are a few of the 2010 highlights for abcnotation.com:

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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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Copyright first

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

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

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One year in …

Monday, 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 tunes for May

Wednesday, 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

Wednesday, 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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