First Songs and tune (Nyah, jessie!) now up

Ok, I have the first set of pages scanned, and up on the site http://www.gaeliccrossings.com, under the King Street link.

Categories are:
Airs
Reels
Strathspreys
Jigs
Slip Jigs
Waltzes
Hornpipes
Marches
Misc
Long (set) Dances
Polkas
Slides
Scotch Reels
Carolans

At the moment, each file has the imaginative name of the page it came from in the book. as I progress, each will have a separate name, and links will go by name, page number or song number.

If you have any problems, let me know and I’ll correct them.

Oh, the discussion forums work as well, although there are no users there yet.

Let me know what you all think!

Aodhan
Oh, and I mistakenly saved them all as Gifs, instead of Jpg format, so they are a tad large and may take a bit to download on slower connections. Sorry!

Better Jessie? :smiley: :laughing:

[ This Message was edited by: Aodhan on 2002-10-31 11:07 ]

On 2002-10-30 23:00, Aodhan wrote:
Oh, and I mistakenly saved them all as Gifs, instead of Jpg format, so they are a tad large and may take a bit to download on slower connections. Sorry!

Actually, I believe GIFs of printed black & white images can have a smaller file size (and better legibility) than JPG’s, provided they are reduced to 2 colors.

Ridseard

Ridseard is quite correct, 1 bit GIFs will be wa* smaller than JPGs in this application. Additionally, GIF uses a lossless compression format that will result in a higher quality image than the lossy JPG images.

Thnaks for all the work you’ve put into this :slight_smile:

On 2002-10-30 23:12, Ridseard wrote:

On 2002-10-30 23:00, Aodhan wrote:
Oh, and I mistakenly saved them all as Gifs, instead of Jpg format, so they are a tad large and may take a bit to download on slower connections. Sorry!

Actually, I believe GIFs of printed black & white images can have a smaller file size (and better legibility) than JPG’s, provided they are reduced to 2 colors.

Ridseard

I think you are right. It’s been a while since I dealt with straight black and white scans. One thing I did notice is that some of the scans show a “ghost” image of the back of the sheet. I’m going to have to try backing the sheet with a black paper to get rid of it.

I’ll play with the two color reduction, etc.

Aodhan

Those are tunes, not songs! The horror!

:wink:

Ok, for the terminology challenged… :wink:

There are songs as well. The majority are tunes, but there are some songs, so from a low percentage point of view, what I posted as a title originally is correct. hehehehe

Aodhan

On 2002-10-30 23:00, Aodhan wrote:
Better Jessie? > :smiley: > > :laughing:

Yes!

:slight_smile:

GIF’s are fine, but PNG’s are better (if you’re paranoid about legal issues).

I’ll check the compression/size on the .png’s. I’m not worried about the copyright issues, all of these are part of a collection that has a no copyright, freely disrtribute disclaimer in the front of the book.

I guess I should scan that and get it up as well…

Aodhan