Guest John-
Which online search do you refer to? The one at Mudcat now a)doesn't recaognize phrases containing common articles, so that users keep reporting that they can't find songs. b)doesn't accept wildcards, so that variant spellings present problems c)can't deal withh Boolean relationships.

Malcolm-As long as DigiTrad accepts contributions from anyone, there's no way og guaranteeing "authenticity". Criticizing it for that lack is somewhat like criticizing the Roud index for not including lyrics. Or criticizing a camel for being a poor cow. In retrospect, I feel that we might have been better off not soliciting contributions and keeping a tighter control over what's in there, but if we had it would be a much more limited resource.

Rita-The delays in updating have nothing to do with which version is considered the master copy; it's been due to the several layers of volunteer programmers between us and the online version. What I'm working on now an arrangement that permits me to interact directly with the website, while enabling me to maintain a single platform-independent version. Which will cerainly include the tunes, in some form or other.