Stability Improvements - Under-the-hood code improvements make Soundly even faster and more stable.
Thesaurus Update - Soundly's specially built Sound Effect Thesaurus has grown and is now even more accurate. Great for professionals using multiple studios!ĭid you Mean - Google-style Did You Mean Functionality helps you spell your searches correctly! Combined with Related Searches and the Sound Effect Thesaurus, Soundly's search capabilities now stands in a class of its own.
Portable Mode - Copy the Soundly application to a USB stick or similar and take it anywhere you go. Multi DB Support - Soundly can now simultaneously connect to multiple shared databases, making file and database organization even easier.Ĭhannel Select - A much asked for feature is finally here with Channel Select, making it incredibly easy to extract one or more specific channels from multichannel files. That means less time searching and more time discovering!
In this video, I talk about how to prepare myself and write metadata and show you how I utilize the Universal Category System in my own workflow.Related Searches - Traversing through millions of past searches, Soundly's AI-powered search algorithm now suggest related keywords for you. Their purpose is to give guidance and direction about how metadata can be categorized and unified. The Universal Category System (UCS) is an initiative brought to life by many sound engineers, vendors, and other individuals from all over the world. It is called the Universal Category System.
Recently a new way of writing metadata for sound effects came to life. You might think why would I use sunset as a keyword in a sound effect, that doesn’t create a sound? It is an important keyword to describe a moment, time, and emotions. Ocean sounds are different in the evening than in the morning. The keywords or tags could look like calm, ocean, waves, beach, sunset. Have you ever searched for sound effects or photos online? Without proper searchable terms (ie keywords) can make it an impossible task to find your desired media!įor example you need a relaxing sound at beach when the sun is setting. These application search not only the filename tags or keywords, but some of these programs can also provide more in-depth written metadata like geotags, locations, and of course, can read the description. Soundly, Soundminer, Basehead or Soundgrinder, Audiofinder, Reaper Media Explorer or Pro Sound Effects Search provide many custom fields to write metadata. This comes in handy if you are serious about selling sound effects online. If you want to have in-depth metadata you can use professional online and offline applications that read and revise metadata. PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS THAT CAN READ & WRITE METADATA? For me, I store many of my recordings on Dropbox and use internal search function to locate the filename keywords. Using keywords as filename can be searchable on both Mac and Windows.
If you find yourself with thousands of files, a categorized and organized file naming system helps you to locate your sounds in just a couple of seconds. In our case, we’re talking about metadata for sound effects and ambience recordings. Metadata describes data about digital files.