Well Joe, my idea would have been to have Mudcat more "live" closer to what we tried at folkinfo. The pluses include that once you have the songs in a std format (I'd still favour abc) in a database, you can do pretty much what you want with them and that could include Mudcat being more of a direct feed for the DT.

But there are problems there, politics, DT being independent to Mudcat and using SongWrite and organising the postings (probably loosing some spontaneity if things were to rigid...)

OTOH, things get sort of lost in MC threads, it can take an eternity for corrections and attributions to filter their way through the system. And can't convince myself more permathreads would be the answer...

Then to get anything done would I think mean a hard manual slog by some even with an Index...

I guess if I was still involved in trying to help put an online song collection together, I'd be joining your lobby but now "happily retired" I guess I don't see things as being quite as easy as maybe I once did...???