What's Snapper? When you select an audio file in the Mac Finder, Snapper immediately appears right beneath the current window, showing you the wave form.
Play:
Hit the space bar or double-click in the wave form to play. Or use auto-play to start playing the moment you select the file. Vari-speed is available too.
Drag, Drop and Convert:
In the Snapper wave form you can select a part of the sound file and...
- drag it out, to create a new file.
- upload it to your Pro Tools cursor.
- turn the selection into an mp3 file.
- split stereo files into separate .L and .R files or vice versa
- convert to mp4 and attach it to an email in one go.
- export to AIFF, WAV, BWF, mp3, or m4a.
Which formats can it handle?
All of them.
Snapper opens over 50 sound file formats. That includes compressed files, split stereo, 192 kHz, 5.1 surround files, red book audio, CDs and movies containing audio. It shows loops, markers, timestamps, regions, BWF annotations, even album covers. You name it, Snapper can handle it!
Version 1.0.5:
>New features: - Due to popular request, Snapper now allows customization of settings for mp3 and m4a files.
- When converting mp3 to mp3, ID3 tags from the original file are now copied over to the resulting mp3 file.
- When converting Broadcast Wave to mp3, any annotation in the original file is now copied into a 'comment' ID3 tag in the resulting mp3 file.
Bug fixes:- Reading ITU G.729 files on Intel machines (Mac Pro or MacBook Pro) would yield heavily distorted audio. This has been fixed. These files have always been correctly interpreted on PPC machines (PowerMac G4 or G5, or PowerBook G4).
- If you select an mp3 or m4a file, and have that same format selected for the 'Mail as MP3' option, Snapper no longer first converts the file, but attaches it immediately to an empty email message. Note: 'Convert to MP3' will still always do a conversion, or you would not be able to always get the desired output format.
- Snapper now recognizes file names with non-roman characters, such as Japanese, properly.
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, for mp3 export the (free) LAME codec. Snapper can upload to Pro Tools 6 or later.
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