Two bloody Micks!...

Big Mick, I think we are talking cross purposes here. MCP and I were talking about work already done for whatever reasons we did them.

My play came from some conversation in the help forum with Joe Offer. the results can at least for the moment at least be seen here

I wanted to see MCP's abcs part as curiosity as to how they came out and part as with them, I can make myself a nice local copy of the dt, adding some more modified modified folkinfo code and I could print a pdf with sheet music or produce a midi of the tunes in any key from hia abcs.

Anyone can have a copy of the existing php code if they want it btw. A version with the abcs. I don't know how MCP would feel about the abcs being included in such a database for anyone that wanted but in any case, I don't really see it being much use to many as without being funny, it does involve rather more setting up than a typical Windows install.

I don't know if I will get round to looking at the cross platform version I mentioned trying but if I do, it will be a long way off.

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As for a more general comment re the dt. I still think the ideal would be for Dick and Max to come to some sort of arrangement. I presume the online copy here is stored in a std SQL database. If Dick could scrap AskSam (and preferably move to abc from Songwrite) and Max provide a means of him inputting directly to the MC dt database I think life would be much easier.

The online MC dtdatabase need never be badly out of date that way and it should be easy to provide say a 6 monthly snapshot of the database, which should be in a formmat which I suspect most potential programmers would prefer to AskSam and perhaps someone taking a copy that way would look to just using/importing/exporting the database tables, updating just them rather than what I get the impression is more of at least a partial reprogram for every one of Dick's updates.

Oh well...