Erik writes: | > Also, some programs allow you to select a | > set of tunes using the X: field. | | Yes, but nothing says that they shouldn't allow you to select | enumerated tunes. But if you have individual tunes, there is not much | reason to select them by number. And even if there are, you can let the | program enumerate them automatically.
When I first wrote my ABC Tune Finder (for my own rather selfish purposes ;-), one of the things that I quickly discovered was that the X: indexes saved me a lot of time. If there are 17 tunes with the same title, an obvious question is: How many of these are really different, and which are mirrors of a single transcription? If you see that three of the tunes have X:379, it inevitably turns out that those three are identical. If they say X:1, of course, you don't know anything, and you have to fetch them and compare them. But if you see index numbers with two or more digits, the same index almost always means that you only need look at one of them. (Now I just know that someone is going to edit their N different versions of some tune, and put X:379 into all of them, just to throw a monkey wrench into this observation. ;-) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
