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CleanTab launches version 2 - Guitar & Bass Tabs in HTML5

13 points by mybbor 16y ago

Hi Hacker News, I have become a huge fan in the last several weeks. I am proud to present my first submission. For the last few months I have been working on CleanTab a guitar and bass tablature site that harnesses HTML5 for an amazing playing experience. I hope you all enjoy.

joystickers 16y ago
Great site, I'll be using this from now on! How do you plan to make money? Affiliate links? Membership fee? Ads?
- mybbor 16y ago
  Thanks so much for the comment. I am hoping to monetize the site through both affiliate programs and advertisements. While the ads will be minimal, I strongly encourage our users to support the artists they enjoy by purchasing music through our affiliates.
bradly 16y ago
Really great site. Tab sites for been terrible for too long. This is a refreshing change from the popups, popovers, and audio ads that plague the existing tab/chord sites.
lhorie 16y ago
Out of curiosity, where did you get the tablature data from? Scraping existing sites?
mybbor 16y ago
Yes, the tablature data is scraped from existing sites. There is a credit to the original page on the top right of every tab.
zck 16y ago
This is pretty cool, but there's at least one piece of data you're throwing out from your scraped pages. Compare The White Stripes' "Offend in Every Way" tab on your site (http://cleantab.com/offend-in-every-way-guitar-tab/white-stripes/v1 http://cleantab.com/offend-in-every-way-guitar-tab/white-str...) and the scraped site (http://www.xguitar.com/guitar-tabs/white_stripes/white_blood_cells/offend_in_every_way.txt http://www.xguitar.com/guitar-tabs/white_stripes/white_blood...). xguitar is telling you where the chord changes happen by placing the chord name over the lyrics (e.g., on the first line, you play a G when singing "plan"). Also, on your blog pages, the top header links to http://blog.cleantab.com/blog/ http://blog.cleantab.com/blog/ , which is a 404. You want to link to http://blog.cleantab.com/ http://blog.cleantab.com/ .
- mybbor 16y ago
  Good eye zck. I will fix up the blog bug here asap. As for the chord location, the text version of the chords are spaced out correctly. You have to turn off the chord diagrams from the bottom tool bar to see this. I am still perfecting translating that spacing over to the chord diagrams themselves. But, hopefully I will have that rolled out soon. I really appreciate all of the feedback. Thanks a ton!
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owyn 16y ago
Kudos. The presentation is pretty good. I've had a similar idea rattling around in my head for a few years, but haven't had the time to build it... There's a major problem with all these sites that has yet to be solved. What that is is left as an exercise for the reader. :)

13 points by mybbor 16y ago

joystickers 16y ago

Great site, I'll be using this from now on! How do you plan to make money? Affiliate links? Membership fee? Ads?

mybbor 16y ago
Thanks so much for the comment. I am hoping to monetize the site through both affiliate programs and advertisements. While the ads will be minimal, I strongly encourage our users to support the artists they enjoy by purchasing music through our affiliates.

bradly 16y ago

Really great site. Tab sites for been terrible for too long. This is a refreshing change from the popups, popovers, and audio ads that plague the existing tab/chord sites.

lhorie 16y ago

Out of curiosity, where did you get the tablature data from? Scraping existing sites?

mybbor 16y ago

Yes, the tablature data is scraped from existing sites. There is a credit to the original page on the top right of every tab.

zck 16y ago

This is pretty cool, but there's at least one piece of data you're throwing out from your scraped pages. Compare The White Stripes' "Offend in Every Way" tab on your site (http://cleantab.com/offend-in-every-way-guitar-tab/white-stripes/v1 http://cleantab.com/offend-in-every-way-guitar-tab/white-str...) and the scraped site (http://www.xguitar.com/guitar-tabs/white_stripes/white_blood_cells/offend_in_every_way.txt http://www.xguitar.com/guitar-tabs/white_stripes/white_blood...). xguitar is telling you where the chord changes happen by placing the chord name over the lyrics (e.g., on the first line, you play a G when singing "plan"). Also, on your blog pages, the top header links to http://blog.cleantab.com/blog/ http://blog.cleantab.com/blog/ , which is a 404. You want to link to http://blog.cleantab.com/ http://blog.cleantab.com/ .

mybbor 16y ago
Good eye zck. I will fix up the blog bug here asap. As for the chord location, the text version of the chords are spaced out correctly. You have to turn off the chord diagrams from the bottom tool bar to see this. I am still perfecting translating that spacing over to the chord diagrams themselves. But, hopefully I will have that rolled out soon. I really appreciate all of the feedback. Thanks a ton!

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owyn 16y ago

Kudos. The presentation is pretty good. I've had a similar idea rattling around in my head for a few years, but haven't had the time to build it... There's a major problem with all these sites that has yet to be solved. What that is is left as an exercise for the reader. :)