Concerning John Chamber tune finder (I find it very useful and use
it to find new tune, but I download always the full version of the
abc file on the original site, so if I'm a bit fool, it's
obviously for other reasons)

Jack Campin said :
> assuming you haven't been fool enough to fish
>a single tune off the web with the Tune Finder discarding its
context.

Sometimes I feel the need to find a tune by composer, but it
doesn't seems to be possible from JC tune finder. For example, all
the "tunes" by Marin Marais (there is some on the web). It could
be nice to be able to search your tune finder by any abc fields,
like by D: for example if you like Malicorne and want to find some
traditional tunes they've made a cover of.

John Chamber said :
>(And I'll once again mention that I can exclude sites or URLs
from my
>indexes.  If you don't want something indexed, send me the URL.

Could we directly insert a little code at the beginning of an abc
file to exclude it from your tune finder, like for the robot
exclusion header in html files ? I hope people won't use it to
fool your tune finder, but to prevent it from indexing useless
tunes (for example I've made a 'favorite' for my own purposes and
it's a replication of other abc files, and I've also some tunes
which are still works in progress or temporary files (I sent it to
my website for backup only)
This code could be in the form :  %%tunefinder-exclude * so it
could exclude the whole file. Or if it's possible it could exclude
some particuliar tunes in it (identified with the X: field) :
%%tunefinder-exclude 1 2 4 7 8 12 21 34-42 


>According to my server logs, this happens but isn't common.  The
most
>common  pattern  is  that a search request is followed by one or
more
>requests for a GIF with the same title. This accounts for roughly
2/3


I can't compare my work with your, but I can also see what pple
are seeing on my homepage.
I've seen that most of them looked at the pdf version (I only
propose abc or pdf), and for some tunebooks didn't care at all at
the abc one (I would have made the opposite)
For example for the month of june :

/abc/orain.pdf  20 
and none of them downloaded the abc version

and out of the 28 who came on my page about Tielman Susato, 10
downloaded the partitions in pdf but none looked at the abc file.

Strangely it was the opposite for my book of song by H. Davenson :

abc/davenson.abc        124
abc/davenson.pdf        99 

I was quite amazed to see how many pple went on my main page just
for one month
abc/abc.html    367 
but few downloaded all my set of tunes
abc/anmn_abc.zip        19  

I've recently added a search engine, and it can also reveal that
pple can come on the abc page I made for other purposes : I've
found in the log file things such as :

35 tour vynyle
disque
axel bauer

nothing to do with abc or folk / ancient music :)

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