Over the years I've asked for his help many times. I bought the software, I've never used it for free, but Don is always on the user forums answering questions and coming up with solutions for his clients. I was going to add that I don't get anything from Don for recommending XYPlorer, but actually in a weird way I do. I bought XY with audio work in mind and intended it only for that purpose, but I have to be honest and say that now I can't imagine doing anything (I mean literally anything at all) on a PC without XYPlorer. For the hours upon hours of work it's saved me over the many years I've used it I'd have been happy to pay 10 times the price Don (the developer) charges for it. What's right for me won't necessarily be right for you.Īll in all, if I had to choose just one file explorer to pay for it would be XYPlorer with no hesitation. I guess it all depends on how you like to work. It's not as good as Sononym but still better than Resonic in my opinion.

The search functions are great but only based on file names, but you can tag samples and add them to collections. Another one that's better than Resonic and still costs less is RYAudio Sample Librarian. I gave up on it and haven't used it for probably 2 or 3 years now, Sononym is way better and costs about the same. I paid in full, waited a few years, still no great improvement. I had an email chat with the developer and he assured me that library functions and tagging etc. It's ok but not particularly spectacular. I find that really useful, but I still use XYPlorer to actually organise samples and folders for all the work that I do. I also use Sononym because of its search function based on 'sound alike' files. Tasks that take ages using Windows can be scripted and just work with one click, it's simply amazing. With the scripting functions you can create custom little scripts that do almost anything. You can label files and folders, create unlimited tags, preview, search, organize. There are so many incredible features to XY that I wouldn't know where to start, not just for music files but for everything that I do on a PC. I organise all my samples, tracks, folders everything with XY. I've been a user of XYPlorer 'pro' for many years now and I couldn't do anything without it.

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