New "Create Tune Set" feature in my ABC Transcription Tools

[Michael Eskin]

I've completely redesigned the "Create Tune Set" feature to be easier to use and more powerful.

Tune sets can be opened for playback or editing in a new browser tab or appended to the end of the current ABC.

Click the tunes in the tune list to add them to the set.

Numbers appear at the right of the tune names showing the tune order in the set.

Click a tune again to remove it from the set.

After selecting your tunes, click one of the action buttons at the bottom of the dialog to open the tune set in the Player in a new browser tab, open the tune set in the Editor in a new browser tab, or append the tune set to the current ABC in the editor.

Settings:

"Repeat each tune in the set when played"

Unchecked - Tunes in the set play once.

Checked - Tunes in the set play multiple times, set by the "Repeat Count" value.

"Repeat count"

If "Repeat each tune in the set when played is checked", now many times to play each the tunes in the set when opened in the Player.

The settings are saved and restored the next time you run the tool.

 

If you are working with extremely large tune books of several hundred tunes it will be faster to access this feature from the "Quick Editor" version. 

 

Click the item at the bottom of the hamburger menu to launch the "Quick Editor".

The video is of the "Create Tune Set" features available in version:

2471_050425_1330

or later.

The version number is displayed at the bottom left of the “Settings” dialog in the standard editor.

If your version starts with a number less than 2471, click the version number to do a manual update of the tool.

 

Try my free ABC Transcription Tools
https://michaeleskin.com/abc
 

User Guide
https://michaeleskin.com/abctools/userguide.html

Demo video:
 

 

Edited May 5 by Michael Eskin

[Michael Eskin]

When creating tune sets from very large ABC collections (> 200 tunes), you may find it faster and easier to use the "Quick Editor" instead of the standard editor:

This is particularly useful if you are appending the tune sets to the ABC in the editor, the "Quick Editor" doesn't have to wait for all the tunes to draw, only draws the appended tune set.

Demo video:

 

 

[Roger Hare]

I just tried this, using the Quick Editor on a file with >1000 tunes - it took only a few seconds...

 

It was dead easy to then convert the 'set' to a 'tune book' by simply inserting an X: header at the start of each tune in the set before saving (I know I'm an awkward b*stard, but this is something I sometimes want to do 🙂)...

Edited May 6 by Roger Hare

[Michael Eskin]

Roger, wouldn't it be easier to just use the Delete Tunes feature followed by Reorder Tunes to accomplish the same result? 

If I were doing this with a large tunebook and wanted multiple sets of tunes, not concatenated, but in a specific order

1) Load the large tunebook ABC into the Quick Editor
2) Click "Delete Tunes" on the ☰ menu

3) Click "Select All"

4) Unselect the tunes I plan to make into sets

5) Click "Delete" to remove the unused tunes

6) Click "Reorder Tunes" on the ☰ menu

7) Drag the tunes into the set order you want
8 ) Click "OK"

The concatenated sets that are created by "Create Tune Set" are highly post-processed, have additional annotations added, and may not be well formed if you just start dropping X: tags in the middle of them.

 

Edited May 7 by Michael Eskin

[Roger Hare]

12 minutes ago, Michael Eskin said:

Roger, wouldn't it be easier to just use the Delete Tunes feature followed by Reorder Tunes to accomplish the same result? etc...

Oooh! I never thought of doing it that way. I'm tied up for the rest of the day, but I'll gave that a go tomorrow.Thanks for the suggestion!

[Michael Eskin]

Cool, just seems like you were doing it the hard way if you just want to cull and reorder tunes.

[Michael Eskin]

@Roger Hare Here's the process I would use:
 

 

[Roger Hare]

12 hours ago, Michael Eskin said:

Roger, wouldn't it be easier to just:

 

1) Load the large tunebook ABC into the Quick Editor
...
8 ) Click "OK"

Plus video...

 

Yup! Just tried it. Took only a few seconds. My excuse - I never had occasion to use the 'Delete Tunes' 

facility before, so was only vaguely aware of it's existence.

 

There's more than one way to skin a cat - thanks!

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FWIW, I tried it on one of my 'medium-sized' files - 12000+ tunes...🙂🙂🙂