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Can a help page be added for each of the main chordie pages explaining how things work? For example, the text from the reply on 2006-08-01 can be used to explain the Most Popular Songs feature.
In addition, it would be good to explain how the chordie search works. For example, "born to be wild" produces no hits, but "steppenwolf born to be wild" does.
As a new member does anyone know where I can get guitar chords for the great musical songs sung by people like Fred Astaire eg Putting on the Ritz, Lets face the music and Dance, Putting on my top hat etc
Many thanks Alan Silverston
Note that this particular forum section is for information on Chordie itself, not the music. Try one of the music forums (e.g., Bands and Artists). Also, check the web to find the song writer (e.g., Irving Berlin for Putting on the Ritz).
Tom
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.
Can this be done on a monthly basis (e.g., top 100 songs for June)? I'm assuming you have server tracking on individual page hits, so you would just need to go back from the URL to the artist info. A monthly job could be run to calculate the differences from previous hit counts and generate the new top-100 listing.
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