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“Where words fail, music speaks.” For anyone who has ever struggled to find the perfect track for a project, Envato—the global destination for digital creative assets and templates—has introduced Sounds Like search to make music discovery easier than ever. Part of an exciting series of updates to revamp Envato’s music library, this innovative tool enables users to find royalty-free music based on sound, not just keywords, making music discovery simpler, faster, and more intuitive.

Envato’s Sounds Like search feature is a game-changer for creatives, filmmakers, and marketers who know the struggle—and time-consuming nature—of matching music to mood. By pasting a URL from Spotify or YouTube, users can instantly access a curated list of tracks in Envato’s library that mirrors the vibe, tempo, instruments and style of their chosen reference. 

“We know from speaking to our users that music is hard to find using words,” says Marine Bassy, Head of Product at Envato. “With Sounds Like search, users can search based on the type of track they are looking for based on what they’ve heard before vs having to describe it.”

So how does it work? Every track in the library has a unique ‘fingerprint’, created by the same AI-powered system behind Envato’s decade, genre, and theme filters. When a user copies their Spotify or YouTube reference into the Sounds Like search bar, the system does the heavy lifting—analyzing and fingerprinting parts of the track to compare against tracks in the Elements library. This instantly curates a list of similar tracks, helping the customer find the perfect soundtrack.

With Sounds Like search, Envato is helping their users to connect with music in a way that is more intuitive than ever before. Whether cutting together an epic film trailer or creating background music for a podcast, the tool helps to find tracks that fit—faster.