Garbled nature of gramophone.net
Wed, Dec 7 2011, 10:11PM
Gramophone.net is an awful site. Most of the reviews are garbled as though someone did a bad cut and paste job of the original reviews. This makes the site virtually unusable which is sad when one wants to find older reviews. The original gramophone.co.uk site had a very clean access to past reviews. I wonder whether other members of this forum will support me to petition gramophone to rectify problems with gramophone.net. I gave been a subscriber to the print version of gramophone for a while so I am not a free loader and have the moral right to request this for the current site is a travesty. Regards Anand
Fri, Dec 16 2011, 2:33PM
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RE: Garbled nature of gramophone.net
Gramophone.net is an awful site. Most of the reviews are garbled as though someone did a bad cut and paste job of the original reviews. This makes the site virtually unusable which is sad when one wants to find older reviews. The original gramophone.co.uk site had a very clean access to past reviews.... Regards Anand
Apologies for the late reply but I rarely descend to the nether regions of this site, not being very technically minded.
I completely disagree with Anand's post quoted above. The Gramophone archive is a magnificent resource which should be celebrated, not knocked. Granted there are plenty of misinterpretations, for want of a better word, some of them quite amusing, but in general pages are perfectly readable. The major glitch is apos apos for " "; this would certainly be irksome on reading articles of major length, but hardly matters for the page or two of a review.
The search function, however ramshackle it might appear, also works well. I normally find what I'm looking for at, or near, the top of the first page of results. I've even found thereby readers' letters, let alone reviews, from twenty or thirty years ago of which I'd only the vaguest memory.
Yes, Gramofile was more orthographically correct but it wasn't perfect. More than once I failed to find therein reviews that I knew existed, because I remembered reading them in the original publication. In any case it was limited to CD reviews since 1983; the archive contains much more besides.
Can't say how good/bad this is (yet), but 24 hours on since trying to register, and I got the successful message, there is no sign of my confirming email allowing me to 'enable'. I checked the spam filters etc., but to no avail (so far). Common problem , or just me?