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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 CustomRanch_ »

Thanks for building this! Bookmarked.

I notice that searching by artist can be inconsistent; for example, if I want the song "Sinners Defeat" by Mors Principium Est, I can find it if I search by title[1] but it doesn't appear in results by artist[2], while on UG I get that song plus a few more[3] (text tab only).

Very handy--the search is fast and looks like a search ought to look. Nice work!

1. https://freetar.androidloves.me/search?search_term=sinners+d...

2. https://freetar.androidloves.me/search?search_term=mors+prin...

3. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?title=mors+princi...

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

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Post by scop »

boringg wrote: post #48
jampekka wrote: post #39

Ooh, this is a godsend. UG is so full of dark patterns and nags it's almost unusable. It's a travesty and whoever runs such scam on community provided content should do some serious soul searching. Transposing chords doesn't seem to be implemented (or should the plus/minus buttons do that)?

Right? It was such a great resource for such a long time and then they just butchered it.

I played a ton of guitar in high school and UG was my go-to resource for a lot of stuff. I then stopped for a long time due to career, marriage, kids, etc, only to pick up the ol’ axe again this year. I dutifully opened up UG and was shocked at how horrible it was. Ok fine, I’ll download the damn app you dirty bastards. Oh, you mean I’m still accosted by all the dark patterns in the app too? I can only assume any PII given to them is sold quickly and efficiently.

FWIW, I have really enjoyed seeing what old artists have put out post-COVID. Seems like a big creativity boost. For example, I really hadn’t checked in on Joe Satriani in years. Nothing in his work had stood out to me in a long time. His 2022 “Elephants of Mars” though is just excellent. The opening track has a guitar entry at about two minutes in that you can’t help but scrunch your face and bang your head to.

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

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Post by pastinaaak »

FigurativeVoid wrote: post #47

Two things: 1. This is really excellent. I looked up some tab that I had added to the site, and it does a great job presenting it. Most importantly, it does it in a very printable format. 2. If you a classical guitarist, or interested in classical guitar, you should check out https://www.classtab.org/ which is a gem of the internet.

Also: https://www.delcamp.net/

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

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Post by Kaibeezy »

Dudester230602 wrote: post #27
schnebbau wrote: post #15

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Realistically, he cannot contact all the thousands of content creators. Also I doubt that UG is paying them in any case. He should include author nicknames though. Hopefully, bro scraped the content in case UG bans him. There will not be good electric guitar music past 2010s anyway, so no missing out on new content...

Polyphia, though
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