A New Holistic Music Search

Do you have trouble always translating your vision for music into precise keywords? If so, this guide on how to prompt using Cyanite’s Free Text Search is your answer.

It’s a revolutionary way to search your music catalogue and discover music that allows you to use complete sentences to describe soundscapes, film scenes, daily situations, activities, and environments.

NEW UPDATE: You can now input your search in several languages & use cultural references in your prompts! Find out more below.

The Key to Success: Specificity

Before we dive into the exciting possibilities of Free Text Search, it’s essential to understand that like any other prompt-based search experience, specificity is the key to success.

The more details you provide in your prompts, the better your results will be. Whether you’re a music enthusiast, filmmaker, or content creator, specificity is your friend.

1. Describing Sound

With Free Text Search, you can now add context and even cultural references to your search, making it possible to find the perfect soundtrack for your project and get the most out of your music catalog.

Here are some examples of how to describe sound:

“Trailer with sparse repetitive piano and dramatic drum hits with Star Wars style orchestra themes”

“Laid-back future bass with defiant female vocal”

“Staccato strings with a piano playing only single notes”

“Solo double bass played dramatically with a bow”

These prompts go beyond keywords and provide context, allowing Free Text Search to understand the relationships between words and deliver top results.

Now, even combining words like “laid-back” and “defiant” leads to success. 

An example result for the prompt: “Laid-back future bass with defiant female vocal”.

2. Describing Film Scenes

Film scenes can evoke a wide range of emotions and visuals. When using Free Text Search for this purpose, consider whether your prompt can be objectively interpreted or if it’s your personal interpretation.

With our new update you can reference popular movies like: Pirates of the Caribbean or Stranger Things in your search prompts!

Here are some scene description examples:

“Riding a bike through Paris”

“Thriller score with Stranger Things style Synths “

“Tailing the suspect on a Middle Eastern bazaar”

“The football team is getting ready for the game”

The last example is a good one because it indicates the feeling of getting pumped up but can be interpreted in various ways.

To fine-tune your search, add different words like “orchestral,” “industrial rock,” or “hip-hop” to steer it in the direction you want.

An example result for the prompt: “Riding a bike through Paris”

3. Describing Activities, Situations, and Moods

Free Text Search empowers you to be as specific as your project demands. Whether it’s high-energy gym sessions, road trips, cleaning the house, or silent work and concentration, you can pinpoint the ideal tracks that resonate with your activities and moods.

Here are some examples:

“Latin trap for the gym.”

“Mellow California rock for the road trip.”

“Colorful pop music to listen to while cleaning the house.”

“Soundscapes for silent work and concentration.”

Of course, you can combine all of the above to create the perfect prompt.

Example result for the prompt: Mellow California rock for a road trip”

Wrap-Up: How To Prompt – Your Music Discovery Journey

With Free Text Search, the possibilities are (almost) limitless. This innovative approach allows you to search your music catalog based on detailed descriptions, making it easier to find the perfect soundtrack for any project or mood. 

Whether you’re pitching music for sync, to artists, or labels, looking to underscore a film scene, or setting the mood for an activity, Free Text Search empowers you to explore music in a whole new way.

As you craft your prompts, remember that the more specific and objective you can be, the better your results will be. Use concrete details like instruments, playing styles, and specific scenes or activities. 

You already have the resources in your library. Get more out of it with Cyanite’s Free Text Music Catalogue Search.

Curious? Request a Trial

Try Cyanite’s Free Text Search and discover the perfect soundtrack for your next project. Just send us an email to sales@cyanite.ai or fill out this typeform and we will provide you with a free trial.

Your Cyanite Team.

A Step-by-step guide: How to write a song bio for DSPs like Spotify, Youtube, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Tidal, Deezer, and Pond5

In one of our latest blog posts, we showcased the best ways to utilize Cyanite as an artist or producer. With AI on the rise, you won’t be surprised that you can also make use of these tools to write a song bio.

Cyanite + ChatGPT: How to elevate your pitches for various DSPs.

Distributors and DSPs want to know as much as they can about your song to ensure they can place it in the right playlists and target the right audience – and we all know how challenging it can be to find the right words to describe our own music. Writing a good song bio is crucial to get playlisted on DSPs.

1. The Power of AI Tagging – Log into your Cyanite Account

First things first: If you don’t have an account yet, sign up here. Cyanite provides a ton of metadata for your song, and for up to 5 songs per month, it’s free. Need more? We’ve got you covered. Just upgrade to a subscription for an additional 15 monthly analyses, or get some extra one-time credits.

2. Upload your song to Cyanite

Head to “Library” and upload the song you want to use. For this use case, we need the genre, advanced moods, character, and movement tags.

To get the best results, choose the right tags from each “mean” section, offering you a percentage of every tag. Leave out the ones that you might not agree with personally, but be careful not to be too subjective!

For even better results: use Cyanite’s Augmented Keywords and AI Descriptions to enhance your prompt in the next step – only available for subscription users

3. The Almighty Chat GPT

For the next step, you need to log into your ChatGPT account and start writing your prompt. Be as specific as possible about the platform you want to use the description and keywords for.

Let ChatGPT know what you are looking for – this could be anything from whole text descriptions or keywords to a brand new song title.

Then copy the genre, character, mood, and movement tags and paste them into the chatbot. 

For a better result, add Cyanites AI Description to the prompt.

4. Pimp Up Your Prompt

You might have already found what you’re looking for. But there’s potentially more. Just like with copying homework, you want to be careful not to have the same results as everyone else on Spotify.

Try to enrich your ChatGPT prompt with personal details. This could range from anything like musical inspirations to the place where it’s been recorded. 

Pretty much anything you can think of.

5. Refine your Results

When writing your song bio, there’s no magical solution for everything, so in each case, this can be a source of inspiration rather than a finished text description or song title.

So it’s best to rewrite the text in your own words.

In any case, you’ve surely obtained results that will help you distribute your track on a variety of platforms.

Curious how the song we used sounds?

In case you discover further interesting use-cases for Cyanite, feel free to reach out to us here.

A big thank you to Guillermo Pareja for supporting us on this post. He got in touch with us to let us know about this use case and how benificial it has been to him.

Your Cyanite Team.