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Does anyone know of a shareware app that allows quick and easy
autitioning of WAV files?  I store all my samples as WAVs on one
of my PC's hard disks. but browsing and auditioning the samples
by just dbl-clicking on them is very slow.  I have tried using various
flavours of Media Player, Sound Recorder, etc, but nothing is
really satisfactory.  I get either a long pause before the sample
plays, or the end truncated, some sample rates or bit-depths won't
play, etc.  Ideally I'd love to have a simple app with an Explorer
style interface, which would allow quick auditioning.  Even better,
a prog that I could just point at a folder, and it would play every
wav in the folder in turn till I hear something interesting.
Anything like that out there?

Leszek Gasiorek
leszek@...
www.controlzone.com
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At 10:50 AM 18/10/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Does anyone know of a shareware app that allows quick and easy
>autitioning of WAV files?  I store all my samples as WAVs on one
>of my PC's hard disks. but browsing and auditioning the samples
>by just dbl-clicking on them is very slow.  I have tried using various
>flavours of Media Player, Sound Recorder, etc, but nothing is
>really satisfactory.  I get either a long pause before the sample
>plays, or the end truncated, some sample rates or bit-depths won't
>play, etc.  Ideally I'd love to have a simple app with an Explorer
>style interface, which would allow quick auditioning.  Even better,
>a prog that I could just point at a folder, and it would play every
>wav in the folder in turn till I hear something interesting.
>Anything like that out there?

Cool Edit 2000 is a good one - it won't automatically play all of the
sounds but if you set it's file open option to autoplay you can just click
on each file in turn and it plays them with very low latency. 

If you have two sound cards then you can have your auditioning app address
one while Logic works through the other -- this is how I audition samples
especially drum sounds. AFAIK two cards are necessary because Logic 4.6
will still not release audio in the background with some audio drivers (ASIO).

Regards,
Murray

you can do this in logic audio. just open the audio window, select 
"add new audio file"(or whatever it is), then you navigate the window 
to the folders you want. Open the folders and you get a list of all 
the sounds, hit the "play" button, and they play. Use the arrow key 
to move through the list, each will play as you arrow to it. If you 
can to use a file, click "add", it moves to the add list, and you 
carry on auditioning. Have fun!
	PS this is how it works on a mac...I assume this is not a a 
missing pc feature!

>Does anyone know of a shareware app that allows quick and easy
>autitioning of WAV files?  I store all my samples as WAVs on one
>of my PC's hard disks. but browsing and auditioning the samples
>by just dbl-clicking on them is very slow.  I have tried using various
>flavours of Media Player, Sound Recorder, etc, but nothing is
>really satisfactory.  I get either a long pause before the sample
>plays, or the end truncated, some sample rates or bit-depths won't
>play, etc.  Ideally I'd love to have a simple app with an Explorer
>style interface, which would allow quick auditioning.  Even better,
>a prog that I could just point at a folder, and it would play every
>wav in the folder in turn till I hear something interesting.
>Anything like that out there?
>
>Leszek Gasiorek
>leszek@...
>www.controlzone.com
>-----------------------------------------
>
>