I think that the philosophy of the Digital Tradition is that there is no sense of urgency about getting songs added - that it's better to take time to get it right, and to make corrections to our past mistakes. Songs that are posted here in the Forum are available to everyone, and we do our best to index them and make sure the song title is in the message title. If we leave them up for a while before they're added to the Digital Tradition, we're more likely to get proper lyrics, songwriter information, and background information.
Dick has been putting emphasis on tunes - he's much more likely to add a song to the Digital Tradition if he can add lyrics and tune at the same time. MMario and I had been posting MIDI tunes as soon as we received them, but we aren't able to upload MIDIs currently.
Now that we have a working Windows version of the Digital Tradition, you can expect to see new editions come out more frequently. Each new edition will ahve several hundred new songs added - but will not include all the new songs posted here.
Still, it seems to make sense ot keep posting, since the songs are available to everyone who visits Mudcat.
-Joe Offer-