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Guitar chord forum - chordie → Song requests → Multiple Versions?
I seem to recall that in the older version of Chordie, there were often multiple versions of a song from different sites made available when a Search was performed. These versions were often similar, but some had just chords, others were tabbed, etc. Under the new format, the songs I search for only reveal one version, which sometimes doesn't provide the help I'd been hoping for.
Is this a "Settings" issue that can be resolved, or is this the new normal?
I've had no issues with finding multiple versions of songs. Maybe the one(s) you were searching only has one version in the index?
As an example, I just searched for chords to "Ode to Billy Joe" so that I could add links to the May Song of the Month (in the new Featured Song of the Month Forum) - and I found quite a few different versions of it.
ie: From the Songs Page, choose O and scroll down to see "Ode to Billy Joe" listed 3 times: http://www.chordie.com/browsesong.php/o.php?filter=
Click on one of them to find all the different versions available (brings you to the Artist page for Bobbie Gentry): http://www.chordie.com/allsongs.php/son … index.html
By doing a search in the text box on the Home page: http://www.chordie.com/index.php
You can quickly see that there are multiple versions. Here's a quick screenshot of what I see when I search for this song: 
So, give it a try with this song, and see if you find similar results. I'm guessing that the songs you've been searching for recently simply only have one version available. ALSO - they could be in the index in some other way - maybe the person that originally uploaded the file elsewhere didn't enter the artist correctly, or named the song incorrectly. Often times, popular tunes will just show up under Misc. - In fact, I see there are OVER 5000 listed in Misc. Unsigned Bands! AHHH! Here's that link: http://www.chordie.com/song.php/songart … index.html I notice the FIRST song on the list is titled "1 Nite Stand" and that makes me wonder if it's actually tabs for the song "One Night Stand" - available here: http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.g … 46915.html
Let me know your thoughts after you take a closer peek around!
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TF. I remember what you are talking about..... they're still there. You might just be looking at something that only has one option indexed.... for example if you look up Allman Brothers in the Artist search and scroll down the list, you will see something like "Blue Sky (4)", and if you click on that it will stack the four options on the page for you to choose which you prefer to view.
Thanks for the reply ...
I haven't tried using that Search method, but have been doing this all along:
- I first select the Artists tab
- select the band / person I'm looking for from the Browsing Artists Name listings
- select the View All Songs from the little pull-down menu
- click the Song Title I'm looking for
I'm quite sure the previous version of Chordie had more versions for many more of most artist's songs, or I likely wouldn't have noticed this change so often. I just tried searching under Neil Young, Jethro Tull, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, and Genesis. Any of these artists where it brings up the song listings by View Albums as a default, don't have the multiple versions when the View All Songs is opened.
My browser is Google Chrome ... could that be the problem?
ah ha! I see what you mean now! If you search specifically by ARTIST you only find one version of each song!
This page: http://www.chordie.com/song.php/songart … index.html
And even if you change the view to "all songs": http://www.chordie.com/song.php/songart … sort=songs
However, if you search either from the songs page: http://www.chordie.com/browsesong.php
Or via the search bar located on the home page, you'll get the multiple versions that are indexed.
I'm not sure why this is, I have a feeling it may have been a coding decision that was made or an oversight when the search feature was updated. I'll check with Per on this though! I did notice in particular, one of Neil Young's songs, "After the Goldrush" which just so happens to be the featured song of the month for June, is spelled with a space between Gold and Rush on the artist page and a bunch of the other versions in the index when searching by song title do not have a space. It may simply be the fact that there are so many possible differences in spelling that it was better to just provide ONE version, than to attempt to provide all "possible" versions. OR it could totally be a bug! 
In the meantime though, you now know that if you are looking for a song by artist/album, once found you can search then by song to find the alternate versions! At least there IS a work around to your previous search method. I'll let ya know what I find out! THANK YOU for sticking it out in clarifying the issue you're seeing and providing a clear explanation.
Guitar chord forum - chordie → Song requests → Multiple Versions?
