SoundSpotter is a Music Information Retrieval (MIR) computer music object (external) that runs on Windows, OSX and Linux systems. SoundSpotter is Open Source with C and C++ APIs allowing integration into computer music environments such as Max/MSP, PureData and others. Use the links below to download binaries/patches or source code from sourceforge.

SoundSpotter was written by Michael Casey starting in 2000 with the first open source version released in 2004. The SoundSpotter search engine has now grown into a new project lead by Casey called audioDB which is part of the OMRAS2 project. See below for more details.