Liland, read what I said carefully.

The MIDI files are bound to have a number of mistakes, because they are converted from SongWright files en masse. We don't really have the time to fix all the ones that are bad - so if they're wrong, we just kind of hope that they come out right the next time. The online version is provided as a courtesy to those who don't have the technical ability to deal with the downloadable database. The downloadable database is the source, the basic edition of the database. We do our best to eliminate the mistakes from that base version.

In the case of BEGGARDH, the SongWright file was also missing that last measure, so I submitted a correction (but the correction won't appear in the database for another 6 months or so).

If a MIDI is bad, we don't really have the time to be concerned about it. HOWEVER, if there's a problem in the SongWright file the MIDI came from, then that's a matter of concern for us and we'll do our best to correct it. We were trying to fix MIDIs for a while, but we just got too big a volume of problems to deal with - so that means it doesn't do you a lot of good to post notice of a bad MIDI or a bad MIDI link.

If you want a tune that's supposed to be in the database and the online tune isn't working, just let us know, and we'll convert one of the SongWright tunes to a MIDI for you, and send it to you by e-mail. As an alternative, you can check the tunes at Yet Another Digital Tradition which converts our SongWright tunes in a different manner (Yet Another Digital Tradition is listed on our Links page).

Hope that's clear now.
-Joe Offer-