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Topic: Is there a way I can test my formats?

I reformatted one of the songs I play and submitted it as a link. I made sure it was one that wasn't already here, and followed the examples. But as this is the first time I've used this format I'm not sure I did it correctly. Is there a way I can test my format without waiting for the chordie index to be updated? AFTER it's updated, if I correct my source will it redisplay with the updates in chordie?

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<a href="http&#58;&#47;&#47;latierraextrana.com/tab/chordie/PerfumePowderAndLead.txt" target="_blank">  http://latierraextrana.com/tab/chordie/ … erAndLead. txt</a>

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Re: Is there a way I can test my formats?

Yes, there is. You can test it manually by just adding <a href="http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/" target="_blank">http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/</a> before your url. Like this:


<a href="http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/latierraextrana.com/tab/chordie/PerfumePowderAndLead.txt" target="_blank"> http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/latie … com/tab/ch ordie/PerfumePowderAndLead.txt</a>


So, fix your top-tags (both title and subtitle) and the file is fine.


I try not to put too much stress on the remote servers, so I do some caching. Therefore it is hard to say when any change will appear on Chordie, but it will definitely be updated on every

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Re: Is there a way I can test my formats?

You could also use {sot} and {eot} around the tabs. This looks a bit better.

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Re: Is there a way I can test my formats?

Very cool! Thanks for the suggestions. I've made the changes you suggested, but the changes don't show up. I'm assuming because the server is caching it perhaps. Is there any way to see my changes in real time? It's been over 12 hours since I made a change that still isn't showing up now.


Things like the {start_of_tab}/{end_of_tab} weren't immediately obvious to me on how they work, so I'd like to try some things and "perfect" the format before I start converting the fifty odd songs that I've got to chordie format.


Thanks!

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Re: Is there a way I can test my formats?

There might be a bug here. But before I start figuring this out, could you just rename the file? Just to sort out any cache issues.


Post the new url here..

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Re: Is there a way I can test my formats?

<a href="http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/latierraextrana.com/tab/chordie/PerfumePowderAndLead2.txt" target="_blank"> http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/latie … com/tab/ch ordie/PerfumePowderAndLead2.txt</a>


New url, I just added a "2". Interestingly, the old version was displaying the quote mark as seen in "can't" incorrectly. The newly renamed file is showing up immediately with changes as were the others that I've put in that directory.

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Re: Is there a way I can test my formats?

Great!


Ill make a not that there are some cache-issues using that feature. I do not think I will try fixing this.


I will however try to make a "format remote song"-feature. Here I can work around the cache issues.