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

#121
post #36

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Something UG added a couple (?) of years ago was support for standard notation. Songster is strictly tabs. For me, that is a deal breaker.

Have you tried TuxGuitar?

No, I haven't. When I create transcriptions I use musescore.

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

#123
Love this, thanks!

One question - is pagination broken or not implemented? eg. searching for a band with a large discography like Built to Spill / Okkervil River only returns a small selection of tabs. It actually doesn't seem to be the first page even, more of a random selection.

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

#124
post #32

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That thing requires registration.

Hi Dudester230602! Yeah, if you want to create your own music in there, you'll need an account. If you don't want to create an account, you can browse the public stuff that's been posted: https://www.soundslice.com/community/ We don't do any Instagram-like "Please register to continue viewing this" nonsense.

It's excellent, thank you

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

#125
post #70

I made a similar web app a few years ago. I think it competes quite well with this one. It has syntax highlighting :) https://tabviewer.app/

relevant: https://github.com/tablature-viewer/tablature-viewer.github.... WRT the sibling comment, and your "click for the repo" comment, unless we're now honoring the "license":"ISC" in package.json as formally legal, there is no license in your repo

I added an explicit LICENSE file with the ISC text now. It's mentioned in the README that we use UG for searching tabs currently.

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

#126
post #37

I wonder if someone can use this to slowly download everything to have an offline archive - which then could be shared somewhere else.

I added a PR[0] to a CLI project doing exactly this for all your saved tabs. Could probably be extended for all tabs on the site as well.

[0]: https://github.com/Pilfer/ultimate-guitar-scraper/pull/2

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

#129
I love this! I usually use the UG iPhone app which isn't great, so if this is PWA-abble, I'd be stoked. The biggest issue I have with UG is that it can't be used offline. Often I'm out camping or something and just need a refresher on the lyrics but am thwarted by connectivity
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