WavSniper
a sample librarian for producers
Snipe the perfect sample.
Producers lose their flow hunting through thousands of samples buried in nested folders and sample packs. WavSniper scans your whole library, auto-tags every sound, and makes any of them findable, auditionable and drag-ready in seconds.
Beta v0.85 · Windows 64-bit · free 14-day trial
Scan & auto-tag
Point it at your sample folders. A fast Rust scan reads every wav, mp3 and aiff and turns the folder and file names into searchable tags automatically.
Instant search
A virtualized grid handles 100,000+ samples with no lag. Filter by two tags plus free text to narrow thousands of sounds to the one you want in seconds.
Audition + waveform
Click to preview instantly. A live waveform draws under the selection with a playhead you can click to scrub. No more guessing from filenames.
Drag into your DAW
Drag a sample, or a whole multi-selection, straight from WavSniper into your DAW or any app. The sound goes where your session needs it.
Duplicate finder
A CRC32 hash of every file surfaces exact duplicates, grouped by wasted space. Keep one, send the rest to the Recycle Bin: recoverable, never a hard delete.
Small & cross-platform
Rebuilt on Tauri: a tiny native app instead of a heavy .NET dependency. It never moves or alters your files: it just makes them findable.
2012 → 2026
A fourteen-year idea, rebuilt for today.
The original WavSniper shipped in 2012 as a Windows-only .NET app. The idea held up; the technology didn't. It's been rebuilt from the ground up on Tauri, Rust and React: smaller, faster, cross-platform, and packed with the tools producers actually reach for.