> many people who use JC's tune finder will just want the gif or midi
> as they wouldn't know what to do with the abc. For such a user, an
> automatic fixer would be an improvement even if it only worked for
> some of the tunes.
> Perhaps the best of all solutions would be to detect the bad tunes
> and notify their owners so the problem can be fixed at source.
AAARGH!!! if some piece of software out there was going to niggle me
about every ABC tune I've been responsible for that it couldn't handle
I'd pull the whole damn lot off the Internet. The result of this
would be like one of those old mail-to-news-gateways that responded
to any Usenet posting by giving you non-delivery messages for sites
you'd never heard of and which you couldn't route a reply to.
The other problem is that most of the duff ABC out there either has
no traceable author or else is in collections so enormous that it
can't be fixed without a great deal of work - in the latter case the
author almost certainly knows what needs to be done. In some cases
the author simply can't do the requisite debugging because they only
have access to some idiosyncratic ABC implementation.
It would be nice if there were some sort of ABC-archive-maintainers'
forum, but surely most of those who would be interested in such a
thing are on this list already.
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