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Snapper is a Finder add-on that shows you the waveform for the selected audio file and lets you play it

When you select an audio file in the Mac Finder, Snapper immediately appears right beneath the current window, showing you the waveform.

If you want to play the audio file, all you have to do is hit the space bar or double-click in the waveform. 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 waveform 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 vise versa,
· convert to mp4 and attach it to an email in one go,
· export to AIFF, WAV, BWF, mp3, or m4a.

Features:

· 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.

· Finder & iTunes
Snapper follows your Finder selection, snapping to the bottom of your Finder window, and it also shows up when you select a song in your iTunes library.

· Pro Tools
You can spot (selections from) files directly to your Pro Tools cursor, or into the Pro Tools region bin.

Requirements:

· For mp3 export the (free) LAME codec.
· Snapper can upload to Pro Tools 6 or higher.

What's New:

· Added support for 32-bit floating point AIFC files.
· If you now export a selection which is a defined region, the resulting file will get the region name, instead of the original file's name with 'snippet' appended.
· Added recognition of AVI movies.
· Previously, Snapper would display either 'Word Size' or 'Bit Rate' for any file, depending on the file type. Now, both file attributes can be displayed independently from each other.
· Fixed reading of certain types of mp3, m4a, and other QuickTime-interpreted files.
· Resolved problems with reading FLAC files (Free Lossless Audio Codec), either by using the FLAC importer plug-in from Xiph (http://people.xiph.org/~arek/flac_import/) or the solution built by Twisted (http://twistedwave.com/TwistedFLAC.html). Both products are free.
· The FLAC importer from Xiph has the advantage that the files are displayed by Snapper as FLAC files, and that their metadata (id3tags) are shown. TwistedFLAC has another approach: you give it a folder with FLAC files, and it will create a virtual disk containing the same files, but with all FLAC files interpreted as Wave files. Any metadata in the original FLAC files is gone, however.
· If you chose a host application whose zoom keys should be used as Snapper's zoom hot keys, this setting would not be remembered. Also, the menus where these key equivalents were shown would not be properly updated.
· Fixed reading of markers in AIFC IMA 4:1 files.
· Made descriptions for some file kinds more specific.
· Fixed issues with recognition of split surround files.
· Changed the bit rate calculation for files containing video tracks, to indicate just the audio bit rate instead of the total movie bit rate.
· Hot key equivalents were not shown in menus just after starting Snapper