*** This is the discontinued legacy repo of Sample Commander v1. ***

Find the latest, completely rewritten Sample Commander 2 on https://github.com/justlep/sample-commander.

LeP's Sample Commander

An application for browsing an audio sample collection and for copying/moving .WAV files from a fieldrecorder or SD card to the PC. Based on NodeJS and Node-Webkit. Compileable to a standalone program (currently tested on Win7/64bit only), but should easily be adjustable for Linux/Mac.

Update April 2018: can now display spectrograms for the .wav files (requires ffmpeg being installed) in 3 different sizes. Clicks on the spectrograms change the playback position.

With spectrograms (clickable to change the play position):

More screenshots in doc/

Download & Installation (prebuild for Windows 7)

A pre-compiled zip with the latest build can be downloaded here (approx. 65MB, unpacked ~150MB). Just extract it anywhere you like and run SampleCommander.exe.

Build manually using NodeJS 6+

If you have Nodejs installed, you can build the app yourself, starting with

$ npm install

Run locally (with developer tools enabled, optionally start watchers)

$ grunt runDebug

Run LESS/PUG watchers (auto-rebuild CSS/HTML when .less and .pug files change)

$ grunt watchLessAndPug

Build standalone application (uncompressed)

$ grunt buildApp

Build standalone application (with the .exe file compressed; win64 only)

$ grunt buildAppCompressed

After either build task, the executable standalone program is located in

• build/SampleCommander/<platform>/

Build platforms are defined in the config section of package.json. Allowed platforms: ['win32', 'win64', 'osx32', 'osx64', 'linux32', 'linux64']
See: https://github.com/nwjs/nw-builder