Technical questions

Subject: Slightly technical questions
From: Celtic-End Singer
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 02:50 AM

I've been a mudcatter for about two years but only on a casual basis every couple of weeks when I had some spare time at university. I recently spent a long time in hospital. New I'm home and recovering I have been visiting the site a few times a day and am really enjoying it. It's my favourite place on the web

Now I'd kind of like to make the transition to a fully competent mudcat user. Ordinarilly I wouldn't lazilly clutter up the forum with easilly answered questions. Normally I would make a little effort to find out the answers for myself but the "Help" section on the site doesn't seem to be working, and hasn't been for some time. So these unanswered questions have been building up and it's got to the point where I have decided to appeal to your kind nature and ask that you educate me a little.

1) How do you add lyrics to the database? 2) How do you add tunes to the database? 3) Where can you find a list of the keywords for a search? (@scottish, @irish etc.) 4) How can you see another member's profile? 5) Once upon a time you could see a list of all the songs on the database from a-z. Can you still do it? How do you do it?

Thanks all.

Subject: RE: Technical questions
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 03:54 AM

Hi, fellow singer -
I think I can cook up some answers for you.
1. If you'd like to submit lyrics to the database, you can e-mail them to Dick Greenhaus, [e-mail], but we'd prefer that you post them right here in the forum. Be sure to search the database and forum to make sure the song hasn't been posted before. If you post a song, it's best to start a new thread and give the thread a specific title like ADD: [songname] so Digital Tradition editors Dick and Susan can spot it easily.
If you're posting lyrics in the forum, be sure to include the HTML line break <br> tag at the end of each line, so it looks right when you post it.

2. Dick and Susan accept tunes in any format by e-mail or snail mail, or you can post the tunes here in ABC or as a MIDI in MIDITXT (click) format.

3. Our main Digital Tradition Search page has links to keywords and titles from the database (or you can use the links I've put here.

4. The information you furnish to register at Mudcat is private, and is available only to certain, trusted people. Many Mudcatters have submitted profiles and photos to BBC's Mudcat Resources.

5. See 3, or click here for titles.

Another place you might like to explore is our links page, where you'll find all sorts of great resources.

Our Esteemed Bartender, Max Spiegel, is hard at work at a new, improved version of the Mudcat Cafe, which should be up and running any day now. Who knows what wonderful features he will add for us. I'm sure he'll have the Help Forum back in business soon.

Hope that helps.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Technical questions
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 03:28 PM

Joe, I couldn't hhave said it as well. Thanx.

Subject: RE: Technical questions
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 03:28 PM

Joe, I couldn't hhave said it as well. Thanx.

Subject: RE: Technical questions
From: Bert
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 03:32 PM

My escape key doesn't work. I hit it and I'm still here.

Subject: RE: Technical questions
From: Peter T.
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 04:13 PM

Celtic End Singer,
You should know that there are extremely subtle gradations of Mudcatdom -- As far as I know, only Joe is a FCMU (fully competent Mudcat user), though Dick and Susan are in the angelic pantheon.
Far below that in ROUTL, rest of us turkeys land, are ORIMU (officially registered incompetent Mudcat Users), IRCIMU (informally registered completely incompetent Mudcat users), RIMU (ridiculously incompetent Mudcat users), LIMU's (laughably incompetent Mudcat users), MCHB (marginally competent human beings), CP (catspaw in a category of his own), and bbc, who serves drinks in the tavern along with the bartender LEJ. GGM is the Great God Max who created all categories. Just thought I'd clear that up while you were absorbing facts.
Yours, Peter T. (RIMU with bars).

Subject: RE: Technical questions
From: bbc
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 05:33 PM

Hey, Peter,

Just one modification (which Joe mentioned--thank you!)--bbc serves drinks in the Tavern & keeps the Mudcat Resources site, on the side. :)

Welcome!

Subject: RE: Technical questions
From: Peter T.
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 10:26 AM

And is an all around Godsend.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Technical questions
From: bbc
Date: 04 Aug 99 - 11:01 AM

Thanks, Peter! David does much of the more techy work.