Bouncebin 1.2.0

A playlist you are happy with is the start of a record, not the end of one. This release is about what happens next.

Collect masters. The library holds 192k MP3s on purpose — a thousand bounces have to stay quick to move through, and small enough that keeping them costs nothing. But once a playlist is in the order you mean, you want the opposite: the real files, together, somewhere you can work. The album view has a Collect masters… button that finds the wav or aiff behind each song and copies it into a folder you pick, numbered in running order.

It works out the plan first and shows it to you — how many songs, how big, how many masters it actually found — before it opens a folder chooser or copies a byte.

It looks for the master in four places, in order: the bounce itself if it is already lossless; a file of the same name sitting next to it, which is how most people bounce both at once; another bounce of the same song elsewhere in the same project; and failing all of that, the MP3, labelled as the MP3. A song that only ever existed as a lossy bounce is reported as exactly that rather than quietly copied as though it were the master.

Shortcuts to the projects. The same folder gets a Projects folder with a shortcut to the Logic, Ableton, Reaper or GarageBand project behind each song, and a Running order.txt listing the sequence, the times, which file each track came from and which project made it. The folder explains itself when you open it again in three months.

Nothing is moved. These are copies, and no original is touched, renamed or relocated. A bounce that lives only in iCloud is downloaded, copied, and handed straight back to iCloud in the state it was in — pulling four 200 MB wavs onto a full disk and leaving them there is not the app's decision to make. It refuses the job rather than filling the volume.

The details panel is reachable from a playlist again. The arrow that opens it had been wrapping onto a line of its own below each row, where it stopped looking like part of the song it belonged to. It is back on the row, in both the album and the list view, with the same contents it always had: where the file came from, where Bouncebin's copy lives, why the scan picked it up, and the buttons to show it in Finder or open its project.

Everyone on 1.0.2 or later is offered this through Bouncebin → Check for Updates…. Anyone still on 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 installs it once by hand and is on the update feed from then on.

Requires macOS 13 or later. Nothing else to install. Signed and notarized by Apple.