What's new: scans up front, related pieces, and this page

Aside from the official opening of edits within the archive, a few changes went in over the past week, mostly aimed at one thing: making the archive tell you what's in it instead of waiting to be searched.

This page exists now. Announcements land here, the most recent one shows on the front page, and you can comment on any of them. Posts can carry audio, so when there's a recording worth hearing it can go straight in the post.

The sheet music section opens with what's been scanned recently. That's the part worth clicking, a piece you can actually read. New catalogue records are still listed further down, but quietly, since a brand-new entry is often a title and a publisher and not much else.

Every piece now suggests related ones. Shared arranger first, then composer, then publisher, and each suggestion says why it's there, so you can judge whether it's actually relevant rather than trusting a black box.

You can filter by what's actually held: a score, or the parts. Putting a piece in front of an ensemble needs the parts; studying it needs the score. Holding one says nothing about holding the other, so it's worth being able to ask.

A piece documented in a publisher's catalogue and the copy the archive holds are now one page. They used to be two, with the second mostly pointing at the first. The publisher's own record such as printing date, series, or where the listing came from sits in its own panel, kept separate from what the archive actually has, because those are different claims.

If you've earned librarian status, two things: you can now choose which of your libraries a contribution goes into rather than having it assigned for you, and creating a library is linked from the sheet music page instead of being buried in your dashboard.

As always: if something here is wrong, say so. Corrections are worth just as much to a growing archive as additions are.