Joe/Jeff, will post this here as help is not working and as Nigel above says as it's not relavant here it can be deleted.

Dave McGlade/ dgmc came up with the excellent idea at folkinfo of incorporating searches in with the song.

There would be other ways but the way we do it involves a little parsing of the song title then building up a link, e.g. for "Admiral Benbow" we produce:

http://www.csufresno.edu//search?NS-search-page=results?NS-search-type=NS-BOOLEAN-QUERY&NS-max-records=20&NS-collection=Ballads&NS-query=Admiral%20AND%20Benbow

We provide a similar search on Gracenote so that users can see if a CD containing a song they are interested in. Here is our gracenote one for the same song.

http://www.gracenote.com/php/search-adv.php3?q=&qartist=&qdisc=&qtrack=Admiral+Benbow&genf%5B%5D=altcountry%2Cbluegrass%2Ccontempfolk%2Cgenfolk%2Ctradfolk%2Cgenceltic%2Cirishceltic%2Czydecocajun&n=10&image=Search

Only a thought but it's quite easily done and I think a very useful feature.

Jon

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Great idea, Jon. I like to post the whole text of the Traditional Ballad Index entry on a DTStudy song because it coves a lot of ground we don't have to cover again. I really like the idea of the Gracesnote Search. I had trouble narrowing Gracenote down, but you've set the search up very well.
-Joe Offer-