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Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Post by duped »

doakes wrote: post #95
BowBun wrote: post #63

This is pretty nice, and there's already a lot of tools out there. I've built some of my own tools to scrape their tabs and store all my own stuff since I expect they will continue locking tabs down more like they already have. I'm a lifetime UG pro member but they keep pushing the envelope too far to monetize more. There's no path for OSS in this domain unfortunately because tabs are often licensed and owned by the…

Artists and/or their publisher own all tabs made for their song? How does that work?

They don't own the tabs, they own the rights to publish transcriptions of the music.

Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Post by berniedurfee »

marricks wrote: post #50
beowulfey wrote: post #29

I've gone to ultimate-guitar since the early 2000s. Some of my tabs are still on there. Visiting it today is a god-damn tragedy. What a mess of a site. I'll definitely be trying this.

The only things from that era that didn’t get outright worse stayed the same (Craigslist). What was beautiful about the internet then was there were so many corners were monetization either wasn’t easy or wasn’t chased so things could just exist. Not so anymore!

Craigslist needs to be added to the list of national historical sites and should _never ever_ be allowed to change.

Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Post by buildsjets »

skrebbel wrote: post #88

Nitpick suggestion: Maybe link to Poetry for those of us not deeply in Python land? It was non-trivial for me to figure out that it’s some sort of package manager for Python. It’s also totally un-googleable so that didn’t help :-)

This right here. I was interested right up until I got to “You need poetry.”, at which point I closed the browser window. I have plenty to do without trying track down some rando developer’s dependencies.

Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Post by globular-toast »

jamesponddotco wrote: post #67

This is awesome! So much cleaner and easier to navigate compared to to UG, it isn't even funny. So much easier to navigate and focus on what's important. Thanks for sharing! I added it to my Awesome Privacy Front-ends[1] list, hope that's okay! [1] https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/awesome-privacy-front-ends

Why does Wikipedia need one? The alternative project doesn't seem to explain this. (In fact, none of them do, but I can probably guess what's bad about most of them if I don't already know).

Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Post by KerrAvon »

nativeit wrote: post #104

I remember OLGA, the On-Line Guitar Archive. In the 1990’s when I was learning to play guitar in my teens, OLGA hosted enough user-generated text-based tabs for me to learn every song I’d ever heard/wanted to play, for free.

The core of UltimateGuitar is the content from OLGA, which is why this particular enshittification is so ludicrous.
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