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tunetank/tunetank-mcp — explained in plain English

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TL;DR

An MCP connector that lets AI assistants like Claude or Cursor search Tunetank's royalty free music and sound effect catalog by mood, genre, or length and return preview links.

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    What it does
      Search music catalog
      Search sound effects
      Return preview links
    Tech stack
      MCP protocol
      Hosted HTTP server
    Use cases
      Find intro music for a video
      Find a short sound effect
      Browse moods and genres
    Audience
      Content creators
      Vibe coders

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Ask your AI assistant to find background music with a specific mood and target length for a video.

REASON 2

Ask your AI assistant to find a short sound effect, like a whoosh or click, under a set duration.

REASON 3

Browse available music genres, moods, and themes through the assistant.

REASON 4

Discover curated playlists of royalty free tracks for a project.

What's in the stack?

MCP

How it stacks up

tunetank/tunetank-mcp0x-shadow/crewtrack0xsv1/ghosttype-bof
Stars777
LanguageC++C
Setup difficultyeasymoderatehard
Complexity1/53/54/5
Audiencevibe codergeneraldeveloper

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How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Just point an MCP-capable client at the hosted endpoint, no API key or account needed.

The connector is free to use with no account needed. The music itself is free for personal and non-commercial use only, commercial use requires checking Tunetank's own licensing terms.

Wtf does this do

This project connects an AI assistant like Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor to Tunetank, a catalog of royalty free music and sound effects, using a protocol called MCP that lets AI tools call outside services. Once connected, you can ask the assistant in plain language for something like an energetic rock track around sixty seconds for a video intro, or a short whoosh sound effect under two seconds, and it will search Tunetank's real catalog and return a preview link along with the track's page on tunetank.com. The server itself is free to use, requires no account, no API key, and no sign up, and it is read only, meaning it can only search and return information rather than change anything. It is hosted by Tunetank at a public web address, and setup is just pointing your AI assistant's connector settings at that address, with example configuration shown for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and VS Code. Once connected, the assistant gains six abilities: searching music by mood, genre, theme, artist, name, and target length with some tolerance around that length, searching sound effects by category and length, and browsing the available genres, moods, themes, and curated playlists. Every music or sound effect result comes back with an audio preview link and a link to the full track page on the Tunetank website, where the actual downloading and licensing happens. The README explains that the music itself can be used for free for personal and non commercial purposes. Anyone wanting to use a track commercially, such as in an ad, a monetized video, or client work, needs to check Tunetank's own licensing terms on their website first. The project does not state a separate software license for the connector code itself.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Find an energetic rock track around 60 seconds for a YouTube intro using the Tunetank MCP server.
Prompt 2
Search for a whoosh sound effect under 2 seconds using search_sfx.
Prompt 3
List all the available music moods and genres from Tunetank.
Prompt 4
Find a happy, upbeat playlist suitable for a vlog using Tunetank's curated playlists.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is tunetank-mcp?

An MCP connector that lets AI assistants like Claude or Cursor search Tunetank's royalty free music and sound effect catalog by mood, genre, or length and return preview links.

What license does tunetank-mcp use?

The connector is free to use with no account needed. The music itself is free for personal and non-commercial use only, commercial use requires checking Tunetank's own licensing terms.

How hard is tunetank-mcp to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is tunetank-mcp for?

Mainly vibe coder.

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