Well, I guess you could say there are five different versions of our Digital Tradition Folk Song Database.

• On the Internet, you can access the Digital Tradition here at the Mudcat Cafe by putting words from the song into the blue search box that appears on almost every page. When you get to the song, there is often a link at the bottom of the lyrics that says "click to play" (try this one and see if it will work)
• Also on the Internet, you can find a site called Yet Another Digital Tradition, which offers our tunes in various formats, including standard notation on a GIF (picture) file.
  
  In our blue search box, you'll find a dropdown menu marked "Digitrad Links" that will lead you to a link where you can download your own copy (click) of the Digital Tradition and run it on your own computer without being on the Internet.
• The DOS version of the database also runds on Windows, so it's probably the most popular version. It displays the lyrics, and it will also play the tunes of songs on all buy a few computers (it won't play on mine). You move the cursor bar down the lyrics to where it says play.exe, hit "enter", and the tune should play.
• If you have certain MacIntosh computers, you can download a spiff Mac version of the database. I've never seen it, but I understand that it displays the tune and plays it.
• Then there's the UNIX version of the database, which I know nothing about. It's in ASCII, which means it's just the text of the database without any of the fancy features.

So, that's what we have. Feel free to ask us for help.
-Joe Offer-