On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:03:20PM -0500, Tom Keays wrote: > There is Richard Moon's TuneDB <http://tunedb.woodenflute.com/> which has > several thousand tunes in it. It allows searching by name or abc fragment. > Very cool.
Except for the Update Problem. A fraction of that number of tunes apparently come from my http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/ which someone seems to have fed into it at some point. Several of those tunes have subsequently been changed. Typos have been fixed, occasionally new info has been added (people mail me and tell me things about tunes they spot. *That*'s pretty cool). Also, I subsequently added a scheme of ID numbers, to help with this problem; but the TuneDB versions don't include them ... So if anybody uses the search facilities of TuneDB and finds a tune that originated with my site, they may have something containing Bad Information that has already been "fixed" (well, changed, anyway), and no way to check except to then go on and search my site for the same tune again and compare them. Just to cache a copy of a collection of tunes is not necessarily that helpful. What's needed is mirroring - keeping that copy in sync with the original, up to date. And, of course, for each tune copied to contain a pointer to its "original" site. And so on ... -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
