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From: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West)
Newsgroups: net.music.gdead
Subject: Proposed Format for Exchange of Dead Songlists
Message-ID: <984@sdcsla.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 00:25:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcsla.984
Posted: Wed Sep 25 00:25:57 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 05:10:18 EDT
Reply-To: west@sdcsla.UUCP (Larry West)
Organization: UC San Diego: Institute for Cognitive Science
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It seems like it would be useful for all concerned if we had an
agreed-upon format for passing songlists & tape descriptions
around.   (Of course, this is unlikely to work, but I thought I'd
make an attempt anyway.)   The advantages are that this allows for
easier troffing into more legible form, and it allows for the
possibility of using database-access-like routines to look up
concerts, etc.

Here is a description and a short example:

------------------------------------------
| .ig
| 	Format here is similar to "refer(1)" and "addbib(1)":
| 	Percent char (`%') followed by single key character,
| 	followed by space.   This can be fudged into being
| 	troff code (make `%' act as `.').   Here are the defined
| 	meanings:
| 		%A Artist(s)
| 		%C City
| 		%D Date
| 		%G Generation -- number of times copied since concert
| 		%N Number within volume (e.g., two tapes)
| 		%O Other commentary, notes
| 		%Q Quality of recording, concert
| 		%R noise Reduction (type -- Dolby B or C, dbx)
| 		%S Songlist 
| 		%T Theater
| 		%W Who?   Who has the tape?
| 		%== (break between tape entries)
| ..
| %A Dead
| %T Fox Theater
| %C Atlanta
| %D 20 May 1977
| %G At least 5th
| %N 1 of 2
| %Q Quality is generally very high.   Reported to be soundboard tape.
| %R Dolby B.
| %S
| Promised Land
| Sugaree
| El Paso
| Peggy-O
| Looks Like Rain
| Row Jimmy
| Passenger
| The Loser
| Dancing in the Streets
| %==
------------------------------------------

What I'd like to hear is comments and suggestions about this.
Things like "Use '%B' for 'Band' instead of '%A' for Artist(s)" are
okay, but not very useful as a "sed" script would suffice to remove
the discrepancy.    I know this format uses lots of lines, but the
access programs and formatting macros don't have to.

(  To fend off people I don't really want to hear from: no one is    )
(  going to require anyone to have anything to do with this; it is   )
(  merely a suggestion.   I know this is net.music.gdead and this    )
(  sorta stuff is very peripheral to the main event, which is of     )
(  course being at a Dead concert.   Please send flames to /dev/tty. )

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.   I'll post a summary and
perhaps a changed format outline sometime in October (assuming
this isn't really hairy, et cetera).
-- 

Larry West				(USA+619-)452-6771
Institute for Cognitive Science		non-business hours: 452-2256
UC San Diego (mailcode C-015)
La Jolla, CA  92093  U.S.A.

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