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Fascinating! It's sort of similar to "bootlegged" guitar tabs on alt.guitar.tab newsgroup and OLGA. There was lots of legal action by publishers and a lot of th

Fascinating! It's sort of similar to "bootlegged" guitar tabs on alt.guitar.tab newsgroup and OLGA. There was lots of legal action by publishers and a lot of the content is now lost, or at least not easily accessible online anymore. ...except for an archive of the classical tabs, selflessly maintained by one guy: https://www.classtab.org/index_old.htm https://www.classtab.org/index_old.htm Don't tell anyone!

ed25519FUUU 6y ago
I’m feeling uneasy because I know there’s a whole generation of “one-person” shops which run these important websites. I hope they have a transition plan in place for the inevitable.
- anchpop 6y ago
  Yeah. I got nervous so I downloaded the site and put a mirror up on IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWG7VPMwC6T1PCp5G77AjrLCJMrmSQshYovf3ieRHWkys https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWG7VPMwC6T1PCp5G77AjrLCJMrmSQshYovf3i... It's not perfect, because if he updates his site my mirror won't necessarily be updated, but hopefully it's better than nothing. I'm pinning that on two seperate computers so it should have some resiliency, but if someone else wants to pin it too that'll do a lot for keeping it up.
  - ed25519FUUU 6y ago
    Thank you for doing the good work.
- lupire 6y ago
  Archive.org to the rescue
sixstringtheory 6y ago
> 2900 classical guitar tabs in plain text format > Use a maximum of 80 characters a line so that the tab prints out ok > An 9MB downloadable zip file is available of the whole site The fact that I had an upwelling of joy reading those lines on a nice, plain webpage just goes to show how far we go to lock down and bloat up so many things these days. Thanks for linking! The scrolling versions of the tabs are neat as well. > do NOT use the 'Tab' character for spacing I had no idea the "tabs vs spaces" debate raged in other corners of the universe...
- williamdclt 5y ago
  I've always felt that Vim would be an incredible tab editor with the right config. I'm not enough into vim enough to actually make it happen, but if somebody is, I'm interested!

ed25519FUUU 6y ago

I’m feeling uneasy because I know there’s a whole generation of “one-person” shops which run these important websites. I hope they have a transition plan in place for the inevitable.

anchpop 6y ago
Yeah. I got nervous so I downloaded the site and put a mirror up on IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWG7VPMwC6T1PCp5G77AjrLCJMrmSQshYovf3ieRHWkys https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWG7VPMwC6T1PCp5G77AjrLCJMrmSQshYovf3i... It's not perfect, because if he updates his site my mirror won't necessarily be updated, but hopefully it's better than nothing. I'm pinning that on two seperate computers so it should have some resiliency, but if someone else wants to pin it too that'll do a lot for keeping it up.
- ed25519FUUU 6y ago
  Thank you for doing the good work.
lupire 6y ago
Archive.org to the rescue

sixstringtheory 6y ago

> 2900 classical guitar tabs in plain text format > Use a maximum of 80 characters a line so that the tab prints out ok > An 9MB downloadable zip file is available of the whole site The fact that I had an upwelling of joy reading those lines on a nice, plain webpage just goes to show how far we go to lock down and bloat up so many things these days. Thanks for linking! The scrolling versions of the tabs are neat as well. > do NOT use the 'Tab' character for spacing I had no idea the "tabs vs spaces" debate raged in other corners of the universe...

williamdclt 5y ago
I've always felt that Vim would be an incredible tab editor with the right config. I'm not enough into vim enough to actually make it happen, but if somebody is, I'm interested!