>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.
Exactly. I have used your Tune Finder, John, and the X-number aspect of it many, many times to tell if the different versions listed were the same or not. I guess my question about changing this would be is there a really compelling reason to change it? It seems to be useful. Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
