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> ultimate guitar annoys the hell out of me I'd love to steal all the content back from them (I submitted tabs to alt.guitar.tab and OLGA long long ago, and ha
by heuermh 8y ago
> ultimate guitar annoys the hell out of me
I'd love to steal all the content back from them (I submitted tabs to alt.guitar.tab and OLGA long long ago, and have backups of the archive) and present it in a clean UI.
As you know, plain text files.
I'm curious though, is there a standard identifier authority for artists, albums, and songs that one could use to normalize such content?
- tmh88j 8y ago>I'm curious though, is there a standard identifier authority for artists, albums, and songs that one could use to normalize such content? Here's what UG has to say about it. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/ug_news/are_ug_tabs_legal_and_does_ug_pay_money_to_artists_for_hosting_tabs_yes_and_yes.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/ug_news/are_ug_tabs_leg... Sounds like a load of crap to me. They probably have a small payment stream just to play the "see, we're trying to comply!" card. Otherwise, I highly doubt they fork over any money unless a lawsuit is thrown their way, even then it seems like they just "block" the tabs as that page describes. There are so many artists on there who probably don't even know people have created tabs for their music. I made my tool for my own personal use and mainly because I wanted to try out Django and Postgres on the backend, so that was never a real consideration for me. I might throw the builder portion of it out there for public use when I wrap it up, but there won't be any saving/sharing of tabs. Just export the tab to a PDF or a raw JSON file which can then be re-imported and edited, I suppose.