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I understand what you mean. I can change that if a lot of people claim this is not logical.

The transpose-feature is independent of the editing function. You will edit the source, but the "-1 transpose" will always be there in the songbook. I could of course let you edit the transposed song, but then I would have to remove the setting that says this song is "-1 transpose" as well.

I am not sure what is best here.

Are you still having this problem?

I tried logging in, and repeating it, but did not get any error. Your problem is related to the apostroph in the songbook name, but I would like to fix this on my side as well.

However I am unable to reproduce.

Actually, it will work if you just print from the original page as well. I am using a css-stylesheet that hides things like menues etc... You will not be writing what you see on the screen.

Unfortunately, you will not notice this "feature" until you press "print". I guess I should find a way to label it...

I have to admit I have not looked at it yet. July was very busy, and right now I am on vacation.

Ill be back in a week, and will fix a lot of bugs...<img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">

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You are right in assuming there is some hidden magic behind that list. It is not 100 percent accurate.

Here is how it works:

* The most popular list is based on what people are adding to their songbooks.

* All songs that I suspect does not format perfectly is deleted. This is done by an algorithm. This might kill a lot of "big hits".

* I do a little trick to rotate the songs on the front page, even if the actual order of the list is not changed ever day (...sorry...)

I should probably find a better way of generating that list. The problem is that most "correct" methods would require a lot of resources from my server. The server is on a very high load at the moment, so this is not a top priority.

I agree that ideally all songs should state as much info as possible. Including who wrote the text and who composed the music. I have added an comment to this song, telling that it was written by Jack Bruce.

To categorize songs primarily by the artist name is not uncommon. If you go to a record shop, and look for the single "We're going wrong", you will most likely find it under "C" for "Clapton".

About half the songs are under the name of a band. These would be very hard to find if they were listed by the author.

Anyway, Chordie is a search engine and a hobby project of mine. It would not be practically possible to recategorize nearly one million songs.

OK. Maybe it is too early. I will give the new rating system some time. At least I will not delete non-rated books.

I might do things like "deleting books with at least two scores below average, and nothing above". "Deleting" the book would not really be deleting it, it is just marking it as "unpublished" in the users songbook-list.

I could also notify the owner of the book that his/her book is no longer online, and ask them to go online if they do not like this. I will have to think about this some more.

Anyway: All ideas that would make the songbook-section easier to navigate would be great.

Here are some ideas I have been thinking about. Please give feedback:

* Adding "genres" like "country","rock","campfire","love songs" etc But havent found a good system for this. What genres to use? Can a song be multiple genres? What about those that just says the book is "all" genres?

* Adding a "search-filter"-function. Like entering "Dylan" and get just the books that contains this word (incl abstract, artists, titles).

* Marking the songbooks where at least one of the songs have been edited. These tend to have higher quality. Do anyone have an idea about how they could be marked?

There are some words about this in <a href="http&#58;&#47;&#47;www.chordie.com/faq.php" target="_blank">http://www.chordie.com/faq.php</a>.

Basically: All songs are attributed to "the artist", not "the writer". The main reason for this is that tablature is a description of how to play a song like a specific artist is playing it. It is not a reproduction of an authors work.

Ideally it whould be noted in the song who wrote it. Please add this as a comment to the song.

Sorry about that. I made a change last night that seems to have caused major problems.

Could you all check if everything is OK now?

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