Somewhere between what you love and what you’ve never heard. Pick a sound. Follow the thread.
No rankings. No right answers. Just a little further from the familiar.
Choose a reference song and discover recordings with a related sound. Audio matching is provided by the independent, open-source Soundalike project, using precomputed audio representations for timbre, texture and broader acoustic similarity, with pacing and dynamics safeguards.
Sound similarity is subjective. This is not emotion recognition, melody identification or a guarantee that two songs will feel alike. Songs missing from the original index are analysed on demand using an available 30-second reference preview. This can miss other sections of a full song. No usable preview means no on-demand match. Song searches are sent to the UK iTunes Store and Soundalike; the chosen reference is sent to Soundalike; no listening history or account credentials are sent. Sound Atlas does not run its own audio model.
Promotional previews are looked up separately in the UK iTunes Store and can differ from the indexed version. The optional genre map is hand-curated; its positions are editorial suggestions, not audio measurements.
Saved tracks and artists stay in this browser when local storage is available. Nothing plays automatically. The genre explorer is inspired by Glenn McDonald’s Every Noise at Once.