I’m trying to find out which app (sample manager, I can guess) to use in order to organize all the songs of a catalog.

The idea is to be able to tag the songs in different ways so they can be found quickly and previewed (ideally so may files can be compared visually, etc at the same time).

An important point that it allows ‘pointing’ to different folders so you can separate finding ‘songs’ vs ‘samples’ so both are not mixed up.

These are some contenders I’ve read about - I’m looking for a practical and good program that is not super extensive to learn but it’s reliable and worthwhile to choose - also that keeps your files private and won’t connect/share them on the internet:

AudioFinder (Ice Audio)

Soundminer

BaseHead (free version)

ADSR Sample Manager (free)

Synonym

Any other?

Thanks!

 

Best Sample organizer? -----> https://audiosex.pro/threads/best-sample-organizer.78710/

 

I use the traditional method of cataloguing stuff, that is name-revision, of course.

So a typical tune would be named: "Copy of random123-ass-testrender-#8-pre-final-truefinal-lastedit_v2_version3.wav"
If it's individual tracks/sections/clips then they're named after use: noise-lo/noise-hi/midnoise/noisy/syn1/syn3/syn4/syn7/ryt/rhythm etc.

Makes things very easy to find, so easy I often find the same thing multiple times on different tracks.

But seriously, I keep things organized by mostly by directories even if they get crowded, samples etc. then it's either directories or using Ableton's browser (directories, tags, and similarity search).