Search Tools

It’s never been easier to search for similar-sounding music across our catalogue!

Pick a reference track and click the ‘Upload’ icon on the right of the search bar to access our Find Similar AI tool. The relevant sections of your results will be highlighted.

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You can upload your own audio:

• MP3
• WAV

You can choose between:

• Ignore vocals
• Prioritize BPM

You can paste URLs from:

• YouTube
• Spotify
• SoundCloud
• Vimeo
• TikTok

Click ‘See Results’ and your results will appear shortly.

 

Once you’ve found your tracks, use our ‘Lightning Project’ feature to build a project quickly. Read more in our blog post.

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Click ‘+’ to add a keyword to your search or ‘-‘ to exclude it from your search. You can use this across ‘Music For’, ‘Genre’, ‘Label’, ‘Moods’, ‘Instruments’. It’s also fully integrated with Advanced Search. Watch our screen recording below.

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Click the ‘Cog’ icon on the right of the search bar to access our Advanced Search panel.

You can now perform specific searches within our catalogue (e.g. BPM, Musical Key, Mood, Instrument etc.)

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Advanced search fields and example queries:

• Mood (e.g. “Fun”)
• Genre (e.g. “Pop”)
• Instrument (e.g. “Harp”)
• Track Title (e.g. “Must Be The Love”)
• Album Title (e.g. “Holiday Hip Hop”)
• Composer (e.g. “Richard Harvey”)
• Musical Key (e.g. “A minor”)
• Release Date (e.g. “2020-2022” or “2020”)
• BPM (e.g. “80-100” or “120”)
• Lyrics or Lyrics Subject (e.g. “Love” or “Empowering” )

 

Top Tips

• You can add your search terms one by one (add your term and click the ‘+’ next to it).
• You can also add all of your search terms into the panel at once and click any ‘+’.
• You can use advanced search whenever you like during your search journey (e.g. if you start off selecting a genre from the ‘discover’ tab you can then apply advanced search.
• Remove any search term by clicking the ‘x’ next to it in the search bar.

 

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Exclude the keywords you don’t want.

Simply add a hyphen before the keyword (e.g. “-piano”) and it will be excluded from your results.

Negative search can also be used in Advanced Search by adding a hyphen before any search.

Click the flag icon on your playlist to flag its tracks across the website. It’s a helpful way to avoid tracks you’ve already used.

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In either the project dashboard view (left) or the left-hand menu (right), click the flag icon to flag all of the tracks in your project.

Then, as you continue to search the catalogue to add additional tracks, you’ll see all of the tracks already in your project now marked with a small green flag icon in the lower right hand corner.

 

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Our Find Similar AI will recommend tracks based on your playlist! Click the ‘+’ to quickly add them to your playlist.

To access our Filtering bar start a music search.

Now you can filter your search by stems, BPM and duration and use our toggles – all, vocal, instrumental and sound design.

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Top Tips

• Filtering works seamlessly with Advanced Search. Update BPM in advanced search, and it automatically updates the filter bar.
• Use ‘Lightning Project’ and the ‘Vocal/Instrumental’ toggle to quickly build curated playlists.
• Use ‘Album View’ to group repetitive results.

 

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Double-click long searches to split them into separate keywords.

Open Advanced Search (click the cog icon) to start a lyric search.

• The description field will be swapped to a lyric preview field.
• Clicking ‘View More’ will take you to the full lyrics.
• Your search word will be highlighted.

Test it out here.

Start typing any word into the search bar and after three characters, you’ll see our predictive search appear.

Browse results in the dropdown and click on one to continue your music search.

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