Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcsla.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcsla!west 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 Lines: 76 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. ARPA:or UUCP: {ucbvax,sdcrdcf,decvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!sdcsla!west or {sun,mplvax,gti,ihnss,whuxlb,ulysses}!sdcsla!west