Philip Rowe writes:
| At 20:57 16/08/00 -0400, you wrote:
| >I know I said I was going to shut up about this for the time being, but while
| >looking for Morrison's Reel on John Chambers' tune finder I came across a lot
| >of versions of Morrison's Jig. Here are four of them. Observe the
| >K:commands.
| Oddly enough, I looked up Morrison's Jig only last week.
| The thing that struck me is that half of them are just called
| "Morrison's", and I had to download them before I could
| find out whether it was the jig or the reel.
|
| This problem crops up quite often (Dennis Murphy's, ...).
| I've been meaning to beg John Chambers for
| time signatures on the search results. (Are you listening John?)
It's one of the things I've thought about. But it was make another
problem worse: The output is already getting awfully wide, and is
becoming unusable on small screens. I'm thinking that maybe a whole
new interface is needed for the benefit of people with handhelds, or
people who like to have more than just one window on their screen.
Before working on this, I'll probably try solving a related problem
that gets me a fair amount of email: Files with the tunes renumbered
result in people getting the wrong tune. I think that rather than (or
in addition to) using the X: number to identify a tune, the tune
extraction code should also use the canonicalized title. This would
mean longer URLs and a bit more CPU time, but could possibly cause
the tune to be found even when its number is wrong.
For an even funnier example, try looking for "tulloch" ...
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