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Freesound MCP Server

Communityby Community (johnkimdw)freeverified Sep 26, 2026

Search freesound.org's CC-licensed sound library by natural language for SFX pulls.

What it does

Community MCP server for the Freesound.org API: agents search real recorded sound effects, ambiences, and loops with natural-language queries and get back duration, tags, license info, and preview URLs. For a film pipeline this covers the classic library-pull workflow ('thunder for a storm scene, under 30s') with the license metadata attached, complementing generative SFX tools.

Connect

Local install: Clone the repo, then `docker build -t freesound-mcp .` or run from source with uv — no published package

Auth: api_key · env FREESOUND_API_KEY — https://freesound.org/apiv2/apply/ (login required)

Sample tools

search_sounds

Field notes

MIT, ~7 stars, last pushed 24 Jun 2025 and still untouched on 26 Sep 2026 — listed because it is the tidiest option for a library nothing else covers, not because anyone is maintaining it. Search-only: it returns preview URLs, not downloads, so a separate fetch step is still on you. The README's API-key link (freesound.org/api/apply/) 404s; the working one is freesound.org/apiv2/apply/, which bounces you through a Freesound login first. No PyPI release: clone and build. The alternatives are no healthier — MuShan-bit/freesound-mcp adds download by sound ID (1 star, Jan 2026) and timjrobinson/FreesoundMCPServer is Node.js (2 stars, Jul 2025). Freesound licences are per-sound and include CC-BY and non-commercial terms — read each one before it goes in a film.

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