A recent drift in a MIDI request thread and reading part an old dt thread refreshed by a spammer got me thinking about the dt database again.

I thought I’d try something that would work locally with a browser without anything having to be installed or an Internet connection needed. I have used sql.js to handle the data which I’ve put in a sqlite database and (having failed with my attempts with abc2svg) abc.js to render the notation and play the tune (where one exists).

It’s rather crude and needs more work that I’m unlikely to get round to doing but if anyone wanted a look at it as it is, it’s at http://www.jonbanjo.com/temp/dtbrowse.zip. It just needs all the files extracted to a folder and index.html opening in a browser (tried here are Chromium, Firefox and Opera on Linux). When the page id first opened, it will need you to choose the database. This is mysqlitetest in the folder the files were extracted to. I’ve not worked out how to just have the page load the database automatically – browser security gets in the way of that with a local file.

Download is about 8MB but the dt database is quite large.