Previous value: -"Musical key, e.g. 'E', 'Em', 'Bb', 'F# minor'. A bare major key also matches its minor ('E' matches E and Em). ~7,100 mains carry key data, about 44% of the catalogue; the filter excludes the rest."New value: +"Musical key, e.g. 'E', 'Em', 'Bb', 'F# minor'. A bare major key also matches its minor ('E' matches E and Em). ~7,200 mains carry key data, about 44% of the catalogue; the filter excludes the rest."

Previous value: -"Only tracks from this album — by name ('Desert Funk') or catalogue code ('STYE1204'); partial names match. Use it whenever someone names an album or asks what else is on the one a track came from. Works with no brief (lists the album) or with one (search inside it). Setting it disables the per-album cap, so the whole set comes back — which is why it is for a user who ASKED about an album, not a way to answer a brief. Answering a brief out of one album narrows the catalogue to one record; spread the picks instead."New value: +"Only tracks from this album, by name ('Desert Funk') or catalogue code ('STYE1204'); partial names match. With no brief it lists the album; with one it searches inside it. Setting it lifts the per-album cap, so the whole set comes back from one record."

Previous value: -"Minimum BPM. Use sparingly: around 54% of the catalogue has no tempo tag, and any BPM filter excludes all of those cues — good matches included. Prefer describing the pace in the brief."New value: +"Minimum BPM. Around 54% of the catalogue has no tempo tag, and any BPM filter excludes all of those cues, good matches included; pace described in the brief has no such cost."

Previous value: -"What the music should sound like and what it is for — the mood, the scene, the instruments, vocal textures, how it should build. E.g. 'tense investigative underscore that never resolves'. Tempo and length belong in the filters below; vocal TEXTURE (wordless backing vocals, choir pads) belongs HERE, in the brief."New value: +"What the music should sound like and what it is for: the mood, the scene, the instruments, vocal textures, how it should build. E.g. 'tense investigative underscore that never resolves'. Tempo and length have their own filters; vocal texture (wordless backing vocals, choir pads) is matched from the brief."

Previous value: -"Only tracks credited to this composer/artist. Partial names match ('Albeg' finds 'Yair Albeg Wein'), case-insensitive. Works alone — 'music by <name>' needs no brief — or combined with a brief to search within one composer's catalogue. Every result carries its `composer` credit either way."New value: +"Only tracks credited to this composer/artist. Partial names match ('Albeg' finds 'Yair Albeg Wein'), case-insensitive, with or without a brief. Every result carries its `composer` credit."

Previous value: -"Owner-curated occasion/context search — see CONTEXTS in the tool description. A context name ('rave-club', 'christmas', 'halloween', 'summer') or a country name (generalises to its regional palette). Unknown names return the full list of valid contexts. Ambiguous contexts return results grouped into labelled directions plus a question to relay to the user."New value: +"Owner-curated occasion/context search (CONTEXTS in the description): a context name ('rave-club', 'christmas', 'halloween', 'summer') or a country name, which generalises to its regional palette. An unknown name returns the full list of valid contexts. Ambiguous contexts return results grouped into labelled directions plus a question for the user."

Previous value: -"Hard-drop any cue carrying ANY of these tags — for a brief's exclusions ('no choir', 'avoid sweeping strings', 'not neo-classical'). Spelling variants and plurals are folded, so 'neo-classical' also drops 'Neoclassical'. Tag-shaped terms only; soft qualities belong in the brief."New value: +"Tags to hard-drop: any cue carrying any of them is removed (a brief's exclusions, such as 'no choir', 'avoid sweeping strings', 'not neo-classical'). Spelling variants and plurals are folded, so 'neo-classical' also drops 'Neoclassical'. Tag-shaped terms only; soft qualities are matched through the brief."

Previous value: -"true = SONGS with sung lead vocals and lyrics. false = everything else, INCLUDING cues with wordless vocal textures (background vocals, oohs/aahs, choir pads) — those count as instrumental here. 'Background vocals' in a request almost always means NO lyrics: use false and put the texture in the brief. Omit = both."New value: +"true = songs with sung lead vocals and lyrics. false = everything else, including cues with wordless vocal textures (background vocals, oohs/aahs, choir pads), which count as instrumental here. 'Background vocals' in a request almost always means no lyrics. Omitted = both."

Previous value: -"Musical key, e.g. 'E', 'Em', 'Bb', 'F# minor'. A bare major key also matches its minor ('E' matches E and Em) — briefs saying 'in E' usually accept both. ~7,100 mains carry key data, about 44% of the catalogue; the filter skips the rest, so use it only when the brief asks."New value: +"Musical key, e.g. 'E', 'Em', 'Bb', 'F# minor'. A bare major key also matches its minor ('E' matches E and Em). ~7,100 mains carry key data, about 44% of the catalogue; the filter excludes the rest."

Previous value: -"Max results. One page per search — there is NO pagination, and repeating a search with the same arguments returns the SAME cues. Ask for as many as you need up front rather than searching twice; raise it toward 25 when exploring."New value: +"Maximum results, up to 25 (default 15). One page per call: there is no pagination, and identical arguments return identical cues."

Previous value: -"Cap how many cues from any ONE album appear, so results spread across the catalogue instead of returning a block from one record. Defaults to 2 for a general search. Raise it, or set it high, when you deliberately want depth from one album — and it is ignored automatically when you filter by album or composer."New value: +"Maximum cues from any one album on the page, so results spread across the catalogue instead of returning a block from one record. Default 2 for a general search; ignored when filtering by album or composer."

Previous value: -"Musical key, e.g. 'E', 'Em', 'Bb', 'F# minor'. A bare major key also matches its minor ('E' matches E and Em) — briefs saying 'in E' usually accept both. ~7,000 mains carry key data, about 44% of the catalogue; the filter skips the rest, so use it only when the brief asks."New value: +"Musical key, e.g. 'E', 'Em', 'Bb', 'F# minor'. A bare major key also matches its minor ('E' matches E and Em) — briefs saying 'in E' usually accept both. ~7,100 mains carry key data, about 44% of the catalogue; the filter skips the rest, so use it only when the brief asks."

Previous value: -8New value: +15

Previous value: -"Max results."New value: +"Max results. One page per search — there is NO pagination, and repeating a search with the same arguments returns the SAME cues. Ask for as many as you need up front rather than searching twice; raise it toward 25 when exploring."

Previous value: -"Musical key, e.g. 'E', 'Em', 'Bb', 'F# minor'. A bare major key also matches its minor ('E' matches E and Em) — briefs saying 'in E' usually accept both. About 7,500 mains carry key data; the filter skips the rest, so use only when the brief asks."New value: +"Musical key, e.g. 'E', 'Em', 'Bb', 'F# minor'. A bare major key also matches its minor ('E' matches E and Em) — briefs saying 'in E' usually accept both. ~7,000 mains carry key data, about 44% of the catalogue; the filter skips the rest, so use it only when the brief asks."

Previous value: -"Only tracks from this album — by name ('Desert Funk') or catalogue code ('STYE1204'); partial names match. Use it whenever someone names an album or asks what else is on the one a track came from. Works with no brief (lists the album) or with one (search inside it). Albums here are curated sets of ~5 cues around one idea, so pulling the whole album is often the best answer."New value: +"Only tracks from this album — by name ('Desert Funk') or catalogue code ('STYE1204'); partial names match. Use it whenever someone names an album or asks what else is on the one a track came from. Works with no brief (lists the album) or with one (search inside it). Setting it disables the per-album cap, so the whole set comes back — which is why it is for a user who ASKED about an album, not a way to answer a brief. Answering a brief out of one album narrows the catalogue to one record; spread the picks instead."

Added value: +{
+  "anyOf": [
+    {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "null"
+    }
+  ],
+  "default": null,
+  "description": "Hard-drop any cue carrying ANY of these tags — for a brief's exclusions ('no choir', 'avoid sweeping strings', 'not neo-classical'). Spelling variants and plurals are folded, so 'neo-classical' also drops 'Neoclassical'. Tag-shaped terms only; soft qualities belong in the brief.",
+  "title": "Exclude"
+}

Added value: +{
+  "anyOf": [
+    {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "null"
+    }
+  ],
+  "default": null,
+  "description": "Musical key, e.g. 'E', 'Em', 'Bb', 'F# minor'. A bare major key also matches its minor ('E' matches E and Em) — briefs saying 'in E' usually accept both. About 7,500 mains carry key data; the filter skips the rest, so use only when the brief asks.",
+  "title": "Key"
+}

Added value: +{
+  "anyOf": [
+    {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "null"
+    }
+  ],
+  "default": null,
+  "description": "Owner-curated occasion/context search — see CONTEXTS in the tool description. A context name ('rave-club', 'christmas', 'halloween', 'summer') or a country name (generalises to its regional palette). Unknown names return the full list of valid contexts. Ambiguous contexts return results grouped into labelled directions plus a question to relay to the user.",
+  "title": "Context"
+}

Added value: +{
+  "anyOf": [
+    {
+      "maximum": 10,
+      "minimum": 1,
+      "type": "integer"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "null"
+    }
+  ],
+  "default": null,
+  "description": "Cap how many cues from any ONE album appear, so results spread across the catalogue instead of returning a block from one record. Defaults to 2 for a general search. Raise it, or set it high, when you deliberately want depth from one album — and it is ignored automatically when you filter by album or composer.",
+  "title": "Max Per Album"
+}

Added value: +{
+  "anyOf": [
+    {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "null"
+    }
+  ],
+  "default": null,
+  "description": "Only tracks from this album — by name ('Desert Funk') or catalogue code ('STYE1204'); partial names match. Use it whenever someone names an album or asks what else is on the one a track came from. Works with no brief (lists the album) or with one (search inside it). Albums here are curated sets of ~5 cues around one idea, so pulling the whole album is often the best answer.",
+  "title": "Album"
+}

Added value: +{
+  "anyOf": [
+    {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    {
+      "type": "null"
+    }
+  ],
+  "default": null,
+  "description": "Only tracks credited to this composer/artist. Partial names match ('Albeg' finds 'Yair Albeg Wein'), case-insensitive. Works alone — 'music by <name>' needs no brief — or combined with a brief to search within one composer's catalogue. Every result carries its `composer` credit either way.",
+  "title": "Composer"
+}

Previous value: -"What the music should sound like and what it is for — the mood, the scene, the instruments, how it should build. E.g. 'tense investigative underscore that never resolves'. Tempo, length and vocals belong in the filters below, not here."New value: +"What the music should sound like and what it is for — the mood, the scene, the instruments, vocal textures, how it should build. E.g. 'tense investigative underscore that never resolves'. Tempo and length belong in the filters below; vocal TEXTURE (wordless backing vocals, choir pads) belongs HERE, in the brief."

Previous value: -"true = lead-vocal tracks only, false = instrumental only, omit = both."New value: +"true = SONGS with sung lead vocals and lyrics. false = everything else, INCLUDING cues with wordless vocal textures (background vocals, oohs/aahs, choir pads) — those count as instrumental here. 'Background vocals' in a request almost always means NO lyrics: use false and put the texture in the brief. Omit = both."

Previous value: -"Minimum BPM. NOTE: ~54% of the catalogue has no BPM tag; a BPM filter silently excludes those tracks."New value: +"Minimum BPM. Use sparingly: around 54% of the catalogue has no tempo tag, and any BPM filter excludes all of those cues — good matches included. Prefer describing the pace in the brief."

Previous value: -"What the music should SOUND like and what it is for — mood, scene, instrumentation, narrative arc. E.g. 'tense investigative underscore that never resolves'. Put tempo/duration/vocals in the filters, not here."New value: +"What the music should sound like and what it is for — the mood, the scene, the instruments, how it should build. E.g. 'tense investigative underscore that never resolves'. Tempo, length and vocals belong in the filters below, not here."