I had no problem unzipping the tar file with Winzip, and the long filenames were preserved. However, everything played very fast because my system didn't understand a "medium" tempo. I hand-edited the files to set the tempo to a speed that made sense (usually 120) and then they played OK. I've also downloaded them on to my Handspring Treo PDA/cellphone (Palm OS).
------------------------------ Karl Dallas, HoustonMedia Please note new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44(0)771 980 5907 Publishers of the jTechUpdate (Java), RUXPerienced (Windows XP), KD on jazz and KD on folk mailing lists. . To subscribe send email with 'subscribe' in the Subject field to . jTechUpdate: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . RUXPerienced: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . HardwareDaily: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . SoftwareDaily: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . KD on jazz: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . KD on folk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Atte Andre Jensen Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [abcusers] jazz-songbook in abcformat On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Jack Campin wrote: > > Well, after keeping it secret for ages (copyright, you know), I might as > > well hit you with this one: > > http://home.wanadoo.nl/atte/songbook > > Any comments welcome, esp if anyone has an idea on how to legalize the > > site. > > Looks like good stuff from what I've been able to make of it so far. Thanks! > Problems: Ok, here we go :-) > (1) you've used immensely long filenames, so tar on the Mac can't > extract all of them. I ended up hand-editing the tar lines and > the null characters out of the archive to turn it into a single > ABC file containing all the tunes. I suspect Windows users would > hit similar difficulties. One solution is to use xxxxxxxx.abc filenames and then always extracting the title information (for the display around the site) from the T:. That's entirely possible, even pretty nice, only thing is that it's quite a bit slower for on-the-fly generation of my pages. Or I could provide a tarball (also looking into providing compressed formats for other platforms, although I believe most platforms can handle tarballs, or?) with short filenames. Might be a bit tricky, since you cannot trust a to-8-char truncation of my long filename will give unique filenames... Other possibilities? > (2) there are some non-ASCII characters used in the chords - F8 and B0. > What do these represent? o-slash (for m7b5) and superscripted-o (for dim). But they do show up in the pdf/ps outputs, right? > (3) there are quite a few abcm2ps-isms which need to be edited out to > get BarFly to handle the file: the multivoice syntax (no way round > that, I guess) Nope. Problem is that if you have a wholenote and want two chords to the bar, there's no way for standard abc to but the chords nicely. > and the !fine! exclamation-point abuse (bleurgh, no > excuse there, dump it). Then I guess I should avoid repeats alltogether, since I use the !fine! to indicate where the form actually ends... Hmmm... Maybe you're right, have to think it over... > I assume Muse would need something similar > to BarFly. Most of the material doesn't really need to have the > chords separated into a different voice, and many more programs > could handle your tunes if you provided a zipped-together version. > (4) there are no tempi. I've been trying to play "Ask me now" on the > alto recorder (interesting piece, gets the fingers doing new things) > but it's not on the only Monk record I've got and I can imagine it > going equally well at almost any speed. What's the right one? A walking ballad round 1/4=120. I though about putting tempi i the tunes, but I hate to see it in the ps-output. Don't know if it's possible to make abcm2ps not output the tempo (?) otherwise I should just strip the Q: line before sending to abcmp2s. > (5) what on earth is going on in "Five"? Are the chords in 4/4 with > the melody in 5/4? If so there are much easier ways to write it. Do you know the tune? It's an extremely difficult tune to play since everything is 5 over 4. The bass/drums play in 4/4 throughout, but the theme is having 5 notes to the bar. In the bridge this is even taken one step further with the 5-notes-a-bar is grouped in four note groups with a chord change on every first note in the four note group. This is the way to notate it... > Legalization: I can't see any way round telling the publishers of each > piece what you're up to and asking *them* what they want to happen. And > I'm not sure that can be done without sending some of them off on a trawl > across the entire Web looking for ABC files that might be convertible > into invoices. At some point that's going to happen anyway but we better > be prepared for it. I guess the legalization is a pretty huge task, that I have to look into at one point if this site should stay online... Not the higest priority for me right now, though. Thanks alot for your comments, I'd look into the possibilities next week (vacation) and maybe I could mail you offlist to get comments on my changes? Regards -- l8er Atte To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
