Credits and licence

The software

Melody Acquaintance is a modified version of FolkFriend, written by Tom Wyllie. Its tune-recognition engine is the FolkFriend engine with Melody Acquaintance's changes.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

The tunes

Tune names, settings and recording counts come from thesession.org. Contains information from The Session's database, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL).

More tune settings come from four ABC collections:

Henrik Norbeck's ABC tunes, by Henrik Norbeck.
O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1903), transcribed to ABC by the O'Neill's Project: John Chambers, Henrik Norbeck, Bob Safranek, Trish O'Neil, Dan G. Petersen, John B. Walsh, Stephen Foy, Michael Hogan, Tom Keays, Norbert Paap, Chris Falt, Dave Wooldridge, Robert Thorpe, A. Lee Worman, Nick Terhorst and mvhplank.
O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland (1907), transcribed to ABC by Frank Nordberg (Musica Viva).
Ryan's Mammoth Collection and Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes, in ABC by John Chambers, Ray Davies, Bob Puckette, John B. Walsh and other contributors.

Melody Acquaintance converts these transcriptions into the melody outlines it matches against; any error in that conversion is ours, not the transcribers'.

Thank you to everyone who typed these tunes in.