What's New

*4/22/2003
Whoops.. Missed my update in March! Bah!

Oh well, I did do a lot of updating this month. Here's what we got:
A Long Way From Home, I Am Waiting For You, Touch Me If You Dare, The Templehouse, The Shepherd's Daughter, The Sailor on the Rock, The Reel of Rio, The Raheen Reel, President Garfield's Reel, Paddy Taylor's, The Old Torn Petticoat, O'Connell's Trip to Parliament, The Mooncoin Reel (not to be confused with the Mooncoin Jig), McFadden's Handsome Daughter, Leslie's Reel, Jack Roe, Ivy Leaf #1, In the Tap Room, The Holy Land, The Hare's Paw, The Graf Spee, The Gatehouse Maid, Flax in Bloom, The Fair Haired Lass, Jig Away the Donkey, The Dogs Among the Bushes, Dan Breen's, The Crooked Reel, Con McGinley's, The Broken Pledge, The Bird in the Bush, Ah, Surely!, Killaghbeg House, Wissahickson Drive, Kiss the Maid Behind the Barrel, Johnny's Wedding, The Knotted Cord, Last House in Connaght, Junior Crehan's Favorite. This pushes the archive to over 700 tunes and songs!

future Plans:
I can save the sheet music images as 1-bit black and white files, instead of 8-bit greyscales. That means the biggest image in this list is 13K, and the average is around 4K, which only takes like 1-2 seconds to load even with dialup. Compare that with 6K-87K done in grey-scale (8-bit). It'll take a me a while to convert them all, but I'll do a little each month, starting with the biggest ones.

I also plan to change how I save tune names. Currently, if a tune has more than one name, I save it in the database with both names in the name file, with a html break separating them. I am going to start making multiple records, one for each name, to make song-by-name searches more accurate, and prevent duplication. I've already done a few. Again, I'll do a few each month. I got 32 done today, and only got through the Cs!