I've been making a few changes to The Session. The most noticable change involves the tunebooks.
Now, I still think the best way to get a printed version of your tunebook is to download the tunebook in ABC format, open it in your ABC software and print from there. That way you can customise the tunes and the printed output.
But...
You now also have the option of viewing the sheetmusic of all the tunes in your tunebook on one page. If you then print out this page (using the "print" function in your browser) you will have a printed copy of your tunebook.
A couple of caveats:
The sheetmusic graphics are really intended for screen reading, not for printing, so don't expect the greatest quality - no matter how good your printer is, the sheetmusic is going to be fairly pixely.
There may not be clean breaks between pages. You might get the title for a tune at the bottom of one page and the tune itself on the next. There's not much I can do about that, I'm afraid.
Anyway, I hope you can get some use out of the new functionality. And don't forget you can arrange the tunes in your tunebook by name, key signature or tune type.
I almost forgot to mention another change I made recently.
If you search in the "Recordings" section and click on an album title to view the track listing, there is now a link at the bottom of the page. The link will say "Shop for...(whatever the album is called)" and leads to a search result at amazon.com.
Just for the record, if anybody does buy something at Amazon as a result of following one of those links, I'll get a couple of pennies.
However, if any money is made in this way (and I'm not expecting to actually make any), then it will be spent on the hosting fees for The Session. This site is, and will remain, strictly not-for-profit.
In the unlikely event of this Amazon generated income exceeding the hosting fees for the site... well, we can have another discussion about which charity should benefit.
You can now print out your tunebooks
You can now print out your tunebooks
I've been making a few changes to The Session. The most noticable change involves the tunebooks.
Now, I still think the best way to get a printed version of your tunebook is to download the tunebook in ABC format, open it in your ABC software and print from there. That way you can customise the tunes and the printed output.
But...
You now also have the option of viewing the sheetmusic of all the tunes in your tunebook on one page. If you then print out this page (using the "print" function in your browser) you will have a printed copy of your tunebook.
A couple of caveats:
The sheetmusic graphics are really intended for screen reading, not for printing, so don't expect the greatest quality - no matter how good your printer is, the sheetmusic is going to be fairly pixely.
There may not be clean breaks between pages. You might get the title for a tune at the bottom of one page and the tune itself on the next. There's not much I can do about that, I'm afraid.
Anyway, I hope you can get some use out of the new functionality. And don't forget you can arrange the tunes in your tunebook by name, key signature or tune type.
Have fun!
# Posted on July 18th 2001 by Jeremy
And another thing...
I almost forgot to mention another change I made recently.
If you search in the "Recordings" section and click on an album title to view the track listing, there is now a link at the bottom of the page. The link will say "Shop for...(whatever the album is called)" and leads to a search result at amazon.com.
Just for the record, if anybody does buy something at Amazon as a result of following one of those links, I'll get a couple of pennies.
However, if any money is made in this way (and I'm not expecting to actually make any), then it will be spent on the hosting fees for The Session. This site is, and will remain, strictly not-for-profit.
In the unlikely event of this Amazon generated income exceeding the hosting fees for the site... well, we can have another discussion about which charity should benefit.
# Posted on July 18th 2001 by Jeremy