Wide Blue Sound presets Finder Audio Tools: Upgrade Finder Forever

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Finder Audio Tools — Upgrade Finder Forever

"You have no idea how this has improved my workflow. I'm discovering samples in libraries I bought years ago but never knew I had. It's like finding cash inside your old coat pocket. Life saver and a game changer for musicians on Mac." — Amir

Hi all, I'm Nathan Rightnour, founder of Wide Blue Sound. We make Kontakt libraries (Orbit, Elysium), the anti-reverb plugin (Silencer), and Audio Plugin Uninstaller. Here's the latest.


The Problem
Browsing samples in Finder is a pain. Quick Look is slow, and adds random amounts of delay before playing back each audio file. There's no hotkey to replay a file. Tagging a file requires several clicks. There's no way to play back all your samples at the same volume for fair comparison. And so much more....


What Finder Audio Tools Does
Finder Audio Tools is a macOS menu bar app that turns Finder into a proper sample browser. It preloads files into RAM so playback is instant. Arrow down, the next file plays. Arrow right to replay it. You can audition samples at tempo with your track using just the arrow keys.

View the waveform automatically: macOS Liquid Glass native — light/dark mode, multiple styles, moveable/resizable, stays where you put it — and clickable to seek through the file.

Auto-normalization matches the perceived volume of every file, so you're comparing the character of sounds, not their loudness. (Your files aren't touched.)

Tag files as you go: Shift+Right cycles through color tags, Shift+Left moves to trash. The whole workflow stays in Finder.

MIDI files play too: arrow through a folder of .mid files the same way. Full General MIDI with multi-instrument support.

Supported filetypes (bold = added since launch)
WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, FLAC, AAC, REX/RX2, CAF (Apple Loops), NKS and .NCW (Native Instruments) and MIDI.

NKS Preview Support: Automatically plays preview audio for Native Instruments presets — Kontakt, Massive, FM8, Battery, Reaktor, Maschine, and all NKS-compatible libraries. No setup required.


"An absolutely great idea to be able to search and organize sounds locally at a faster speed. Really enthusiastic about the features you guys will develop for this one." — David


Updates and Feature Voting
We've shipped four updates since our private launch. RX2/REX support came from a YouTube comment and shipped in the next update within 24 hours.

There's a feature board where owners vote on what gets built next. Everything ships as a free update.

$29 introductory price, the price increases as major features are added.

The best way to browse in Finder: Finder Audio Tools

Happy to answer any questions in this thread.

Enjoy,
Nathan

[Tj Shredder]

In Finder I am happy with the space bar to play files... For more advanced search with automated tagging and categorization there is Mini or Sononym...

[widebluesound]

I am happy with the space bar

Tomorrow we're launching a 20-day demo. I invite you to experience the difference.

-Nathan

[robosax]

[widebluesound]

I'm happy to say that List View is now supported!

FAT v1.1 is live now.

This update also adds Quick Riser Previews, something I've wanted for a long time.

Finding the right riser (whoosh, sweep, etc) is tedious because is takes so long to get to the important part of the sample. That's now solved.

Quick Riser Previews automatically detects risers and starts playback 1.5 seconds before the apex. Enable it in the menu. When you hear a riser you may like, you can use Quicklook to audition the entire file.

The bolt icon turns blue to let you know when you aren't hearing the original file. This blue indicator will extend to future features like pitch-shifting.

– Nathan

[widebluesound]

Waveform view is live!

macOS Liquid Glass native — light/dark mode, resizable, optionally windowless — and clickable to seek through the file.