Explorer Alternatives

Explorer is described as 'Powerful application that allows you to manage your files with enormous control, for free. Designed from the beginning to work with and support surround and immersive formats, you get incredible control over them' and is an app in the audio & music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Explorer for Mac, Windows and Linux. The best Explorer alternative is Resonic Player. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Resonic Player or ADSR Sample Manager. Other great apps like Explorer are Resonic Pro, Sononym, Soundminer and Soundly.

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  1. Resonic Player icon
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    Resonic plays music files, sounds, and samples out of your existing folders. It's built to be fast, reliable, and powerful. It does what it is supposed to do, without the bloat, and with exceptional usability.

    57 Resonic Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. ADSR Sample Manager by ADSR - a smart sample management tool for your daw. ADSR Sample Manager makes your entire sample library searchable and audible directly in your DAW with smart and custom tags. Preview any sample in your library in the context of your track using MIDI or...

    10 ADSR Sample Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. SoundBuddy aims to take away much of the tedious searching and clicking by storing samples, MIDI and presets from your DAW in handy libraries for instant recall. The libraries constantly monitor your DAW content to ensure changes are synced.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Resonic Pro icon
     6 likes

    A powerful sample manager, audio browser, and creativity tool for audio professionals that comes loaded with a unique set of inspiring and workflow-enhancing features, and an extensive metadata system.

    12 Resonic Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Sononym icon
     4 likes

    Sononym is a sample browser that organizes your sounds using machine learning, and allows you to explore how they are related to one another.

    15 Sononym alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Soundminer icon
     1 like

    Soundminer provides an advanced search engine for both Macintosh and Windows users, a highly advanced batch conversion engine, an integrated metadata management tool, an advanced sound design tool, a DSP processing host, a scalable server for multiple users, a web publishing...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  7. Soundly icon
     1 like

    Soundly is a fully featured sound effects platform for Mac & PC. Find your perfect sound effect in our massive cloud library, index local sounds, and share files in the Soundly collaboration cloud. With a wealth of features and a friendly interface.

    10 Soundly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. AudioFinder icon
     1 like

    AudioFinder can build a catalog of every sound on your system, save it, and search it instantly to find the sounds you need when you need them. Use AudioFinder to create custom sets for sound categories and specific projects, with fast file browsing to audition, analyze...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Snapper icon
     Like

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Samplism icon
     1 like

    Samplism is a full-featured, audio file manager that helps you organize, search and preview your audio sample library.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Samplesort is a Windows, macOS and Linux application designed for musicians, producers, DJs and foley artists to manage and search their audio file libraries. Features include one-click sample auditioning, 32Bit/192Khz audio support, ASIO & WDM and support for over 160 file...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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