Allright, IMO there's room for developers here. A sample previewer should offer the following things:
- Integration into any standard open dialog. You can open files with Mplayer2 if you have it assigned to the appropriate filetypes and then do a "rightclick > play" action, but that's too tedious when surfing multiple files.
Should of course also work as a standalone.
- Wave file information display. Could be plain things such as bitdepth, sample rate, mono/stereo, but it could also also display whether the files do have embedded loop and root note information.
- Loop play without gaps. This should also cover playing embedded loop sections (very important when builiding sampler patches).
- Some sort of "bookmark" option. When dealing with large amounts of samples I often don't remember which file it was that I eventually liked. So I would just like to bookmark those.
- Along with the bookmark option there could be some "copy bookmarked samples into folder of your choice" function. Just imagine how much that would rule when constructing new drumsets made from samples out of myriads of strangely nested folders.
- Last but not least it should have an audio preference dialog instead of depending on your Windows preferences, along with some volume knob/slider. Very important in case your main soundcard has no proper multiclient drivers and you may want to playback stuff through another MME card while your sequencer is "eating" up your main card's drivers.
So, would anybody please program this?
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