Effective the Summer of 2025

Sound Ideas has upgraded ALL of its sound effects collections to

UCS filename and metadata standards.

About the Universal Category System
The Universal Category System (UCS) is a public domain initiative by Tim Nielsen,  Justin Drury, Kai Paquin, among others, and supported by sound librarians, vendors, and users from around the globe.

Their aim is to provide and encourage the use of a set category list for the classification of sound effects. They hope that in doing so, they can offer a framework for consistent categorization of sound effects, offer uniformity in a filename structure, and ease the pain of maintaining a sound effects library.

They also hope to provide tools to make naming and categorizing sound effects easier for everyone who maintains their own personal or a professional library.

Visit the Universal Category System site.

Our Process: The team at Sound Ideas reached out to the experts in the field for their help in coding, classifying and upgrading its legacy and previously released sound effects products to conform to the Universal Category System standards. Sound effects have been coded into Main Categories (82 in all ranging from Air to Wood) and SubCategories (more than 750).  

UCS provides designated prefixes to be used for filenames that allow audio professionals and audio enthusiasts alike to consolidate and organize their working sound effects collections while being able to easily navigate to any type of sound they might need. And every one of Sound Ideas filenames, in every format, has now been renamed.

We've spent more than a year on this massive project to upgrade more than 500,000 individual sound effects and we are now ready to offer you a variety of options to upgrade your previous Sound Ideas purchases.

To find out more about the possibilities:

contact@sound-ideas.com

Check out these videos to learn more about metadata conversion and filerenaming: