Find music for a video, film, advert, trailer or podcast by describing what it needs to do.
Search 18,594 professionally produced cues by MEANING, not just tags — describe the
scene, the mood, the instruments, how it should develop. "Tense investigative underscore
that never resolves" or "warm and hopeful for a charity film" work far better than single
keywords, because the brief is matched against editorial descriptions of how each cue
actually behaves as well as against its tags.
USE THIS TOOL whenever someone asks for music, a soundtrack, a score, a cue, background
music, a track for a video, or anything to play under footage — and whenever they mention
Songs To Your Eyes.
Put the sound in `brief`. Use filters ONLY for requirements the user actually stated:
every filter is a hard constraint, they combine with AND, and cues missing a tag are
silently dropped — so stacking several filters can empty the results. If a search comes
back thin, drop filters and put the nuance in the brief before concluding the catalogue
has nothing.
VOCALS — the trap to avoid: has_vocals=true means SONGS with sung lead vocals and
lyrics. Wordless vocal textures (background vocals, oohs and aahs, choir pads) count as
INSTRUMENTAL in this catalogue. A user asking for "background vocals" almost always
wants NO lyrics: set has_vocals=false, describe the texture in the brief, and optionally
add 'Background Vocals' or 'Choir' to the instruments filter.
Each result describes one cue. listen_url is the important one — a permanent page
where the track can be played, with cover art and a waveform. Give it to the user
every time; it is how they actually hear the music.
Also returned: title, album, description (what it sounds like and what it suits),
duration_s, bpm (null means simply untagged, not slow), key, has_vocals, genres,
moods, instruments, use_cases, and three editorial judgements worth quoting back —
energy (low | low-building | moderate | building | high), resolves (does it land, or
stay unresolved and tense), and vo_friendly (does it leave space for a voiceover).
versions counts the stems, alternate mixes and shorter cuts that exist for it, and
cutdown_lengths_s lists those cut lengths in seconds. ref identifies the cue for the
other tools. preview_url, when present, is a temporary streaming link that expires
after 15 minutes — prefer listen_url, which never expires.
All audio is a watermarked evaluation copy: you will hear a spoken "STYE Music" tag
over it. That is expected, not a fault in the recording.