{"id":429,"date":"2010-12-31T18:15:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2011-03-16T16:28:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T16:28:25","slug":"a-year-of-massive-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/31\/a-year-of-massive-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"A year of massive growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; at least, in terms of the number tunes available in the tune search.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the attention grabbing headline, it&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Perhaps the biggest change from a visitor&#8217;s point of view is that the number of tunes indexed in the tune search has gone from <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/merry-christmas\/\">55,000<\/a> to <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/12\/12\/twice-as-big\/\">275,000<\/a> &#8211; a five-fold increase in just a year.<\/li>\n<li>The scope of the tunes has increased too, with <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/07\/07\/copyright-first\/\">copyright tunes listed<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/11\/25\/normal-service-has-now-been-resumed\/\">duplicates eliminated<\/a> from search results. Plus a number of composers have now given <a href=\"\/searchCopyright#consent\">consent<\/a> for their tunes to appear on the site.<\/li>\n<li>The tune search also allows you to <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/search-insight\/\">search a particular<\/a> collection and tune pages also have <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/highly-recommended\/\">recommendations<\/a> (visitors who viewed this tune also looked at &#8230;).<\/li>\n<li>Both the <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/blog-makeover\/\">blog<\/a> and the <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/new-look\/\">main website<\/a> have had a makeover, in particular to allow for easier navigation, and <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/advertising\/\">direct advertising<\/a> on the site is now possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally &#8230; although I hadn&#8217;t announced it until now &#8230; as of late December, the website has a brand new <a href=\"\/wiki\/\">wiki area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This has been set up initially to host the new <a href=\"\/wiki\/abc:standard:v2.0\">abc standard version 2.0<\/a> &#8211; the semi-formal description of the rules of abc &#8211; with the aim of giving abc software developers a clearer baseline to work from. However, there&#8217;s no reason it couldn&#8217;t be used for other things, such as abc tutorials, or examples pages, or even an a-z of abc usage &#8211; please <a href=\"\/contact\">contact me<\/a> if you&#8217;d \u00a0like to start something off.<\/p>\n<p>Happy new year!<\/p>\n<p>Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; at least, in terms of the number tunes available in the tune search. Aside from the attention grabbing headline, it&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,42,3],"tags":[422,400,395,347,396,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}