Disclaimer

1. Beta software, best-effort results

The Service is in active development. Detection algorithms, models, the raag database and the interface change frequently. Any raag identification, tonic estimate, swara set, phrase list or confidence score is a statistical estimate, not a determination. Two runs on the same recording can produce different answers.

2. What affects accuracy

• Recording quality, microphone, room noise, clipping and compression artefacts.
• Presence or absence of a tanpura or drone, which strongly influences tonic (Sa) detection.
• Accompanying instruments, percussion and multi-voice textures that survive vocal isolation.
• Duration and completeness of the phrase — short or ornament-heavy clips carry little evidence.
• Intonation, gamak, meend and microtonal shading that resist discrete swara mapping.
• Raags that share the same swara set and differ only in phrasing, vadi/samvadi or treatment.

Errors, near-misses and confident-but-wrong answers should be expected.

3. Not professional or academic advice

Nothing produced by the Service is musicological, educational, professional, cultural or legal advice. Do not rely on it for examinations, auditions, competitions, grading, publications, research citations, teaching material, broadcast metadata, licensing decisions, or any claim that a performance "is" a particular raag. Always verify with a qualified teacher or authoritative source.

4. AI outputs

AI is used in parts of the analysis. AI systems can be inaccurate, inconsistent, or confidently wrong, and may reflect biases in their training data. AI reasoning shown in results is an explanation of the model's output, not an expert judgement, and is not reviewed by a human before you see it.

Support chat may be answered by an automated assistant. Its replies are informational and best-effort, can be wrong or out of date, and are not a commitment or decision on our behalf. Refunds, credits and account matters are decided only by our administrator, and you can ask for a human at any point.

Release notes on the What's new page are drafted automatically and may be incomplete or imprecise.

5. Practice tools and reference pitches

The on-screen keyboard, tanpura drone, reference tones and the ear and note exercises produce approximate pitches using your device's own audio output. They are practice aids and must not be treated as a tuning instrument or a calibration reference.

6. Using Raag Finder without internet

When Raag Finder has been added to your device, what you see offline is the copy last stored on that device and may be out of date. Features that need a connection are marked and will not work until you reconnect. Practice work created offline is held on the device and uploaded when the connection returns; clearing the site's data or removing Raag Finder before that happens loses it permanently.

7. Raag reference data

The aroha, avaroha, thaat, vadi, samvadi, pakad, mood and time-of-day information in the explorer is compiled from publicly available references and traditional sources. Traditions, gharanas and schools differ, and sources disagree. The data may contain errors or omissions and is offered as a study aid only. Corrections are welcome at admin@raagfinder.com.

8. Community and third-party content

Moods, comments, votes and suggested videos come from users. They are personal opinions, are not verified by us, and do not represent our views. Embedded performance and explanation videos are hosted by YouTube and remain the property of their uploaders; playing them is governed by Google's terms, and their inclusion is not an endorsement of the video, the performer, or any claim made in it. We remove content on valid complaint — see the takedown route in our Terms of Use.

Forum topics, connect requests, directory profiles and chat messages are created by members. Profile details such as talents, languages, occupation and city are self-reported and are not verified by us. Any lesson, collaboration, engagement, payment or meeting you arrange with another member is strictly between you and them and is undertaken entirely at your own risk.

9. Headphones, drone and hearing safety

Live singing asks you to wear headphones so the tanpura drone does not bleed into the microphone. Set your volume to a comfortable level before starting the drone or the headphone check, and lower it if anything sounds loud or uncomfortable. Prolonged or loud headphone listening can damage hearing. The headphone check is an acoustic estimate and can be wrong in either direction; use your own judgement. Practise with the drone only in a setting where you can safely stop hearing your surroundings.

10. Practice reports, lyric scoring and live streams

Practice reports are produced automatically from pitch measurements in your browser. They are a rough coaching aid, not tuition, examination or certification, and a report that flags a note as "outside the raag" or out of tune may simply be reacting to microphone noise, a wrongly set Sa, an instrument's timbre, or a legitimate ornament. Treat every report as a prompt to listen again, never as a verdict on your singing.

Lyric extraction and scoring use automated speech and pitch models. Transcriptions are often wrong, especially with ornamentation, fast passages, background sound or languages the model handles poorly, and are always shown in English letters rather than a native script. Where we cannot align words honestly we show swaras alone rather than invent lyrics.

Practice recordings made with "Start session" are stored only in your own browser on that device. Clearing browser data, using private browsing or switching device will lose them and we cannot recover them. Live streams depend on a third-party media provider and on your network: drops, quality loss, delay and failed recordings can happen, and credits consumed for a block that has already started are not returned for such interruptions.

11. Availability and data loss

The Service depends on third-party infrastructure and can be interrupted, degraded or withdrawn without notice. While we take care to store your analyses safely, you should keep your own copies of any recording that matters to you. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability or the permanent retention of any file.

12. No affiliation or endorsement

Workolo Entertainments is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any gharana, academy, institution, artist, label or rights holder, unless expressly stated. Names of raags, artists and works are used for identification and educational reference only.

13. Limitation

Your use of the Service and any reliance on its output is at your own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for loss or damage arising from reliance on a result, community content, or reference data. The limits of liability in our Terms of Use apply in full.

14. Contact

Workolo Entertainments · 191/6, Lamech Street, Janaki Nagar, Valasaravakkam, Chennai 600087, Tamil Nadu, India
admin@raagfinder.com · +91-4443300011