From: "Richard Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > But do they 'look' at the abc by means of software or directly. > > I have collected 10000++ of them myself over the years > > (small and large collections/files) and find myself looking at > > the abc-source only if the software is behaving unexpectedly, > > so I would place the collectors group in (2). > > The idea of multiple tunes within one file I personally do not like > > much (I'd rather zip them when transferring) > > Interesting. It's always struck me as one of the useful points about > ABC, when dealing with several thousand tunes, that you don't have to > have them all in separate files.
Most of our stuff is in a database and I find it much easier to have the abc as a separte field, along with other filds like full lyrics, notes on the song, references to inexes like roud, laws, etc, than to have all the abc in one (or more) text files. On the other hand, I quite like the ability to have mulitple abc's in one text file. I think Jack Campin's modes is a great example of how it can work well, even with other non abc text. I tried that one when I had a brief play with Barfly. We also use the multiple abcs in a text file on what we have for the Bronson bits Phil Taylor gave us and possibly in the future would use other abc that doesn't really fit (e.g. I don't think our song database would require 20 varients of a song) in the song database. Even I found it quite easy to write a little php script to index the tunes in a text file... Jon To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
