David50’s four thousand, eight hundred and fifty-five comments

@ Bob Sturm. I wasn't suggesting feeding it the audio. I was suggesting some form of encoding of the audio. more…

In part it seems that you are hoping the system will get the understand the encoding system. more…

Some ideas (last two lines) about money from a musician long gone: more…

It's not a "€35 markup". It's the sort of rate a freelance needs to charge to cover their costs and make a living . more…

@ Coleman. But it has been "exposed to the conventions of traditional Irish music" mixed up with other stuff. more…

@Bob Sturm. Wikipedia entries conform to a subset of grammatical conventions and the vast majority have been edited to weed out departures from those conventions. Not so the tune database here. more…

I wouldn't worry Ergo. They seem to be less accessible than the dross amongst the good transcriptions here. more…

Any attempt at a system to assess if tunes are any good or not? To save humans having to listen through 30,000 tunes? more…

I am of the "the more you mess with it, the less is left" persuasion. How much can one change it before it becomes a different song on the same theme or telling the same story? more…

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