General questions and glossary


What is Thounds?

Thounds is a social network where users can share music ideas by recording their inspiration and intuitions in a very simple way.
You can create your sample easily by recording it live with a microphone (usually already built into your computer) or by plugging in your instrument. Your sample will be available to your contacts all over the world and they can contribute their ideas at any time.

Why the name Thounds?

It’s the intersection of Thought and Sounds.

What is a “thound”?

The first recording

What is a “thounder”?

The name of the user who recorded the thound (first recording)

What is a “line”?

Every recording following the first one

What is a “thoundstrack”?

The finished track, formed by the thound and all the lines added over it

What is a “favourite”?

It is the specific thound you choose to represent you, like a profile picture does

What is the inspiration meter?

The Inspiration meter tells you how much you are leading the community.
You gain points in many different ways, not only by creating a new thound but also when people add their music to it.

If your thound or lines don’t comply with the Thounds terms and conditions you will have points deducted.

What is a “band”?

It is the group of friends you selected to work together with on a thound

Sign up


Why do I have to sign up?

Registration on Thounds is free. Yu need to be registered to use all the Thounds functions: search for music samples, find friends who share a specific musical taste, collaborate on other growing tracks, share your music through the most popular networks, etc.

What do I do to sign up?

It takes about a minute to enter your name, email, location and a few tags that describe your music style and influences.

You will immediately receive an automatically-generated email asking you to click a specific URLto verify your address and prove the request really came from you.

This information is all we need to know to register you. Any extra detail (such as your website or “about me” notes) is not mandatory and it is up to you to complete your personal profile as you wish.

What is Thounds’ privacy policy?

We care about your privacy which is why the information you provide will neither be visible to users who are not among your friends, nor given to third parties.

Home page and profile page


What is my home page?

Your home page collects a list of all your friends’ Thounds, sorted from the most recently updated to the oldest. You will be able to see who left music ideas on the tracks simply by clicking the “plus” button.

What is my profile page?

The profile page gives control of your information, library, contacts, notifications, inspiration meter. Fill in the information section to tell more about you to your friends, such as your personal website, extra information about you and so on.

What is the library?

The library is the place where your recorded inspirations are stored. You will find both those you started and those you contributed your music to. For each of these recordings you can delete or modify information such as title, tags and cover image.

Record your inspiration


How do I record my sound?

Press the big recording button on your profile page, you will see an interface in two rows: above you have controls for the metronome and below a volume indicator.

Adjust the metronome (that’s the tempo) by pressing “minus” or “plus” buttons, in order to decrease/slow down or increase/speed up. You will see the exact speed written as bpm, beats per minute. When you have tuned the tempo, press “Rec” and you will start recording. You have one minute available for your music. A timer shows how much time you have left and a signal bar shows you the volume of your input. A bar that doesn’t move much means you’d better make more noise!

When your recording is finished press “Stop”. Select which part of the whole you want to keep by moving the two small blue marks to the start and the end), then press the “save” button. You will be prompted to choose a name and some tags for your recording, finally press “save” again and you are done.

Why do I have to use earphones?

When you are adding your music to an existing track, using earphones avoids your recording wiping the original.

How can I add my sound to another track?

Making a contribution to your friend’s thound is easy: just select the audio sample you want to work on, then record your inspiration.

Once you have made your recording you may want to adjust its start to exactly match a specific point. To do this, click on “lines are not in synch” which will show you a slider that helps move your start to the desired position.

When you have found the right place, press “save” to confirm and you will be prompted to choose a name and some tags for your line, finally press “save” and you are done.

What are the Tags?

Tags are a list of words that describe your recording, they can be the specific name of instrument, the genre, the influence, etc. Tags are extremely useful when browsing or searching recordings because they give extra information about your samples.

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