Hi, I guess I wouldn't use the Online MIDI files as a gauge of whether the tunes we have are correct or not. As you know, we have thousands of songs and thousands of tunes. The master copies of the lyrics are in text (not HTML) format, and the master copies of the tunes are in SongWright. The Digital Tradition comes out (usually) twice a year, and Dick sends the lyrics and texts to Max for posting in the online version. Because of the huge number of files involved, Max makes the conversion by batch processing. This works pretty well, but it ain't perfect. I think that most of the defects in the online MIDI files are caused by defects in the batch processing. For some reason, we got LOTS of mistakes in the current version.
If you think one of our tune files should be corrected, it might be an idea to check the SongWright tune on the downloadable version of the database. If you don't have the downloadable version and an online tune isn't working and you'd like to hear it, post a message in the Help Forum (or send me a personal message), and I or one of the JoeClones ™ will e-mail a copy to you. Be sure to include your e-mail address in your request, unless you're listed in Mudcat Resources.
Thanks.
-Joe Offer-

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However, in this case, the original SongWright tune in the Digital Tradition is indeed missing its last measure. I've harvested the tune for the database already, so there's not much need for it to go in Mudcat MIDIs. Thanks, Liland.