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The problem with these is that they're not wikis. I fully concede (how could I not?) that there are many people here who have been here waaay longer than me and know the ins and outs much more intimately, but as far as I can see, the IMSLP is fully, wholly, and utterly collaborative, and that means...

IMSLP has been using MediaWiki to serve its 30,000+ scores and it works. Feldmahler has spent a huge amount of time getting it that way, and thanks to him, we have a website to browse and download sheet music. However, it's apparent that we're pushing the bounds of what MediaWiki was meant for and d...

Again, an API would be nice. Actually, a "real" database would be nicer, and would probably be a prereq for an API.

I've rehosted the pre-1923 works on my own site for easier access to each one:
http://aztekera.com/music/stravinsky.xml

It was more of an experiment in XML+XSLT, but hopefully the scores will be useful to you.

In going through some of the Cello and Piano items you processed, I noticed that it program missed a fair number of logos. Especially take a look at the Beethoven Op. 47. There are some isolated pages with logos on Bloch's Schlomo. Thanks for that heads up. Admittedly, I haven't had the time to pro...

IN Harmony is a database of sheet music held by four partner institutes in Indiana: Indiana Historical Society Indiana State Library Indiana State Museum Lilly Library, Indiana University Is this something that we've looked at before? Is this something we could assimilate? http://webapp1.dlib.indian...

oh i c the uploader split them

You have to concatenate parts 1 and 2 to open them

With Imagemagick, do
That will split original.tiff straight down the middle into newpage-0.tiff and newpage-1.tiff.

Ask for an IMSLP api while you're at it.

perlnerd666 wrote:Yes indeed. I now carry around lists for plate numbers of those precise publishers (Richault, Ricordi) to date things (come as they do .

Think you could share these lists?

Can somebody confirm for me that ftp://imslp.org/logo_infested/CDSM/viol ... udies1.zip is corrupt? I downloaded it and could not extract any of it, although it IS a zip file.

I have the following CDs of the CD Sheet Music set: Beethoven complete works for solo piano Chopin complete works for solo piano The Ultimate Piano Duet Album (whose TOC I can't post atm due to copy-protection) Bach: Works for Keyboard and Four-Part Chorales Mozart: Complete Works for Piano Sonatina...

We don't like to keep metadata. The bookmarks are OK as long as there's nothing proprietary included. BTW, I downloaded your cleaned files and they came up as "damaged and unreadable". I use Acrobat Pro version 8 (Mac OS). Try again. I had an issue where my WiFi adapter would overheat fro...

Is there some kind of machine-readable interface or API to the IMSLP database? That is, some way that a native client could access data from IMSLP in XML or other machine-parseable format, thus saving load on Mediawiki and headaches on the programmer?

Not a pressing issue, by any means.

It would be nice if a Serenissima representative would add some details in this forum about their printing process, planned catalog size, company, etc. This reminds me of the Mutopia project, who offer a similar service. Mutopia offer printed scores (although they barely have anything right now) in ...

Any guidelines or best practices to keeping bookmarks and/or metadata? Or do we not care?