Rediscover your Sound library.
Spheric Catalog connects to Soundminer®and keeps your library UCS-compliant automatically. It scans your folders, extracts the useful parts of over-long recordings, and uses AI to recognise and tag every sound — You'll love it.
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The AI similarity model is downloaded automatically from inside the app on first launch.
Works with Soundminer®, Soundly — an existing Soundminer®installation is required.
It's free. It lives on your support.
If Spheric Catalog helps you rediscover your sound library, a donation keeps it growing. One-tap checkout (Apple Pay / Google Pay), secure.
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Use cases & FAQ
What Spheric Catalog does for your Soundminer®(and other) library, and the questions we hear most.
Point Spheric Catalog at a freshly recorded folder. It recognises each sound and writes clean UCS metadata straight into your files — no manual CatID hunting.
Got 20-minute ambiences with only a few good moments? Choose one or more CatID and it detects and extracts those parts, ready to file and name.
mandatory for Soundminer®script. Spheric Catalog reads and enriches your existing Soundminer®database — it is required.
No. Your audio files are never altered; only metadata is written to you files.
If your files were already in a Soundminer®Db, please rescan your folder to see the updated metadatas.
No. Recognition and tagging run locally on your machine. Nothing leaves your computer.
Lucky you! You can use Spheric Catalog for extracting useful parts of long recordings without re-tagging them.
False positives happen - is that bad? Maybe not. It's a chance to tag a sound in a different way, and a classic text search will still find it exactly as before.
No — but a powerful graphics card (GPU) is strongly recommended. Otherwise Spheric Catalog runs on the CPU.
You need to rescan your sound files after your "Cat Wizard" session to see the results.
Both — Windows, and macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel.
The Universal Category System — the industry-standard naming and metadata scheme for sound-effects libraries.
It's free. If it earns a place in your workflow, a donation keeps it growing. And it makes me happy!