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Asked: 2026-05-23T16:24:42+00:00

I am making an app where the user will probably want to import a

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I am making an app where the user will probably want to import a custom settings file.

It is a tuning fork app, and there are more tuning systems in existence than you can shake a stick at. I will supply a settings file that contains maybe half a dozen common tunings. this will satisfy 99% of customers, but those who want to go the extra mile I would like to provide the option of complete customisation.

Now it doesn’t make sense to make an elaborate UI design. it would take users hours of painstaking way looking up numbers on Google or using their calculator, and keying in various tuning systems.

also what if they reset their phone?

what if they want to transmit this data to the iPad?

what if they want to send their configuratino to a friend?

what if I am maintaining a wiki which holds 300 different tuning systems, and they would like to grab half a dozen?

the best solution path I can see is to have the user create a text configuration file, with a simple format. something like this:

theme: "A3"
comment: "An octave below concert pitch (ie A4 440Hz)"
presets: {
A3 220Hz=220.0
}

// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_tuning
theme: "Guitar Standard Tuning"
comment:"EADGBE using 12-TET tuning"
presets {
E2=82.41
A2=110.00
D3=146.83
G3=196.00
B3=246.94
E4=329.63
}

theme: "Bass Guitar Standard Tuning"
comment: "EADG using 12-TET tuning"
presets: {
E1=41.204
A2=55.000
D3=73.416
G3=97.999
}

Question is, how to get this on to their iPhone?

I don’t want to rely on iTunes. maybe they will take their phone on holiday with them, and not their computer. maybe they don’t even have a Mac, and they don’t have iTunes on their PC. maybe they don’t have a PC. maybe they just hate iTunes?

I don’t have the resources to set up server space and actually host something myself.

first question: does there exists some place on the Internet I can deposit a text file and retrieve it with a minimal URL?

second question: I would also like to provide a mechanism for the user to load the file directly from their computer, ( say for example they are off-line ) — how to do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If I paste something into Pastie, eg

    http://pastie.org/2197740

    I can get the raw text back by copying the URL of the ‘ download ‘ link.

    (NOTE: cannot use the ‘raw’ link, as that still displays an HTML file containing JavaScript)

    EDIT: Using http://min.us you can actually deposit a textfile, and then pass the URL — which you get by copying the link from the ‘ download ‘ button on the page ).

    EDIT: gist.github seems to be the perfect tool for this — you can write a text file in the browser, and save it. and pastes typically persist forever. just need to throw the URL through bit.ly to shorten it.

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