[abcusers] Advice Sought

2001-08-23 Thread Nigel Gatherer
I received an email this morning: Please help me if you can. I have the ABC Win program. I would like to download your music, but for some reason when I select it the program opens but is empty. what is the correct process? This prompts me to seek a proper solution to my storage of ABC

Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-23 Thread Richard Robinson
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Jack Campin wrote: I have been looking round other people's transcriptions on the net over the last few days and I'm getting reminded of a few missing features of ABC that would make web-trawls for music more productive. - universal identifiers, along the lines of the

Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-23 Thread John Chambers
Richard Robinson wrote: | I wonder whether the X: line used for this, since I'm not sure what other | use there is for it. Does any software currently use the X: line for | anything (other than the ease-of-parsing start-of-tune marker) ? I think | it was supposed to be a way of giving a

Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-23 Thread John Chambers
Richard Robinson wrote: | I wonder whether the X: line used for this, since I'm not sure what other | use there is for it. Does any software currently use the X: line for | anything (other than the ease-of-parsing start-of-tune marker) ? I think | it was supposed to be a way of giving a

Re: [abcusers] Advice Sought

2001-08-23 Thread John Chambers
Nigel Gatherer writes: | I received an email this morning: | | Please help me if you can. I have the ABC Win program. I would like | to download your music, but for some reason when I select it the | program opens but is empty. what is the correct process? | | This prompts me to

Re: [abcusers] net-friendly information

2001-08-23 Thread James Allwright
On Thu 23 Aug 2001 at 12:43PM +0100, Richard Robinson wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Jack Campin wrote: I have been looking round other people's transcriptions on the net over the last few days and I'm getting reminded of a few missing features of ABC that would make web-trawls for music

Re: [abcusers] Advice Sought

2001-08-23 Thread James Berriman
At 11:39 am +0100 23/8/01, Phil Taylor wrote: The .abc extension is correct, and should work fine with ABCWin. Your files certainly work OK with BarFly. One possibility is that the server is (correctly) serving the files using the mime type text/vnd.abc, and the user's browser doesn't

Re: [abcusers] Advice Sought

2001-08-23 Thread John Chambers
James wrote: | At 11:39 am +0100 23/8/01, Phil Taylor wrote: | | The .abc extension is correct, and should work fine with ABCWin. | Your files certainly work OK with BarFly. One possibility is that the | server is (correctly) serving the files using the mime type text/vnd.abc, | and