Lots of Sounds MCP Server

by lotsofsounds Your server? Claim it

answering

Lots of Sounds is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 21 Sep 2026.

CC0 sound effects API for AI agents — search, preview, and download via MCP.

Uptime history 32 hours of history

32 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

565 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 21 Sep 2026

What changed 1

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 21 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

21 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for search_sounds

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Lots of Sounds every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://api.lotsofsounds.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.lotsofsounds.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://api.lotsofsounds.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.lotsofsounds.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://api.lotsofsounds.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

browse

browse_samples

Return curated free CC0 sample sounds. No API key required. Use this to demo the catalog before a Pro key is available.

download

download_sound

Return a time-limited signed download URL (expires in 1 hour) for a sound. Requires a Pro or Enterprise API key. Only call this when the user is ready to download.

sound

get_sound

Fetch full metadata for one sound by id. Requires a Pro or Enterprise API key.

sounds

search_sounds

Search the full royalty-free (CC0) catalog by natural-language query, tags, category, and duration. Requires a Pro or Enterprise API key. Prefer descriptive natural-language queries (e.g. 'gentle notification chime' over 'chime').

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.lotsofsounds.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	530 ms	3 min ago

Alternatives to Lots of Sounds

same job, measured the same way

Midnight Rgb

by midnight-rgb

Domain registrar for AI agents. Search, register, and manage domains via API.

22 installs/wk local only

MESSORA

by messora

Scrape, crawl and search the web for AI agents via MCP.

5 tools answering

zotio

by orgmentem

Zotero MCP server: local-first search, library checks, and preview-first writes for AI agents.

local only

Sounds

by sfxmint

Free CC0 sound effects for agents: ask by role (button-click, coin), sets, or search 4,600+.

5 tools answering

Handbook

by jannks

MCP server for the Handbook API – manage handbook entries via CRUD, overview and tag search.

28 installs/wk local only

Cralo

by cralo

Pay-per-use tool marketplace for AI agents. Search, price-check, and call APIs via MCP.

answering

Groupdocs Watermark MCP

by groupdocs-watermark

MCP server for GroupDocs.Watermark — add and search document watermarks via AI agents.

local only

Google Maps Scraper

by gmapsextractor

Live Google Maps business search, review, and photo data for AI agents over MCP.

answering

Lots of Sounds — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Lots of Sounds do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: browse_samples, download_sound, get_sound, search_sounds. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Lots of Sounds working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 565 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Lots of Sounds?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Lots of Sounds need an API key?

No. Lots of Sounds completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Lots of Sounds?

It answers our handshake in 565 ms on average, which is faster than 26% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Lots of Sounds open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.