For quickly thumbing through a new set of samples, SampleFinder is almost ideal. It's better than Finder with or without any extension out there. I've found that it allows me to browse and search my samples without the ingestion-organization overhead of other more involved software, that can be cumbersome when you just want to have a quick peek at a new library as it was delivered, not as it was reorganized by the ingestion process. I have been buying apps for well over a decade and it is rare to find a developer so available, genial and responsive. This is a hidden gem for music sample management on the Mac platform. If you keep your samples in a single hierarchy, this is a great tool to plumb the depths, one directory branch at a time. It's faster than Finder and with the last update, it is just about ideal for the task. You can sort the results and autoplay unattended through each sample file in any directory structure (or through any searchable subset).It's not going to be everything to everyone, but here is how I have been using SampleFinder. When I have just downloaded a new sample pack and want to quickly have a listen through everything inside, this is now my go-to tool. It allows me to do two tasks extraordinarily well: search and browse. I don't download samples from inside my DAW. I download them to the filesystem. That's where they live. I also manage my samples inside the filesystem and use filenames that are up to the task. I'm from the school that the name of a media file should be long and cumbersome and tell you everything about the contents of the file you need to know that can't be revealed in metadata. It's so much easier that way. SampleFinder makes it super easy to search by keywords that exist in file and folder names -- WITH complex search expressions!It gets all the small details right too. It doesn't choke on tens of thousands of samples. There's just not much to choke on here. It remembers the last location you selected upon quit and defaults to the proper audio device. All the small things that get in the way if they're done wrong, and I've seen them done wrong. If you have simple sample management needs, beyond Finder, this may be perfect ... and the price is right. If you have complex sample management needs, again this may be perfect, for a subset of those needs. I for one appreciate the simplicity. I'm of the philosophy that it's better many small software tools that do one or two tasks well rather than a complex monolith. The developer seems to share this philosophy. He should charge more for this little jewel.
