The massive indexing project is done! Whew, finally. There weren't as many loose albums left to add as I had thought a couple of days ago; mostly the time was in checking them all.
I think I am going to go ahead and write a simple web app to search the database online. The flat files have worked great, but this last big push has increased the flat file size to the point where it's hard to load the pages. (1.6 Mb each, to be precise.) It won't take long to write a simple search function, and then it will group the results better than the flat file could do.
Of course I'll still have to add new material as I buy it. Which I'm trying not to go nuts with, but to be honest I have been buying at least 1 new CD a week. My latest acquisition is ¡Sabroso! by Mongo Santamaria. He's more of a jazzman than a Divaville Lounge kind of guy, for instance he wrote "Afro Blue" and had a big hit with "Watermelon Man." But you know, it's from the right era, and I try not to be super rigid about defining the show, and I had heard a couple of excellent songs from ¡Sabroso! on that Internet radio station I like.
The CD only arrived last night and I haven't had a chance to listen to the whole thing yet. (I'm alone in the office this afternoon, and I wish I had thought to put it on my iPod!) What I've heard so far is fantastic. My rule of thumb is not to buy an album for just one song, no matter how good it is, if I haven't heard the rest. That's just too much of a risk -- if the rest of the album stinks, you could end up spending $15 or more for just one song. But 2 songs, if they're this good, and I've been humming them for weeks, and the album only costs $8? That's a bargain.
The two amazing songs, by the way, are "Que Maravilloso" and "Mambo de Cuco." Sylvia told me that "Mambo de Cuco" was probably named in honor of someone, likely one of the performers. The liner notes don't list anyone named Cuco. Maybe it's a nickname.
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