SoundFisher is a new sound effects database management system featuring content-based recognition and retrieval. You import your sound effects from local disk, network file systems, CD-ROMs, and the Internet, and SoundFisher lets you sort them by acoustic similarity.

Suppose you have a sound of tires screeching around a corner, but it's not quite right. Let SoundFisher find other similar sounds in your library. Maybe it's another automotive clip; maybe it's the sound of a nighthawk; maybe it's the sound of squeaky door yanked open.