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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Happy new year
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012October updates
Saturday, October 15th, 2011What next?
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011What 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.
Loading ...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:
Twice as big
Sunday, December 12th, 2010I’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!
Copyright first
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010When I originally set up the tune search I planned not to display copyright tunes.
One year in …
Monday, June 21st, 2010The new version of the abc website – abcnotation.com – launched on 21st June 2009, is one year old today.
New tunes for May
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010I’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, 2010I’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).
April updates
Thursday, April 14th, 2011A quick round up of the changes to the site since the last update in February:
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