Ethan Sarif-Kattan has recently released a free desktop app for music producers who bounce a lot and want a cleaner way to stay on top of versions while finishing tracks.
Producer Player features version tracking, mastering workspace, album ordering, all in a single window.
It’s built around version management across an ordered track list, with features like loudness measurements, streaming platform previews, track ratings, and timestamp-based notes.
I made it out of personal need after getting tired of messy bounce folders and losing track of what changed between versions.
Producer Player features
- Version Tracking: Drag in a folder of bounces and Producer Player groups versions automatically (Track v1, Track v2, etc.), with archive-aware handling for older exports.
- A/B Mastering Workspace: Compare your master against reference tracks with measured loudness, peak stats, tonal balance, and sample-rate visibility. Quick A/B with mix playhead restore after reference auditioning.
- Platform Normalization: Hear what Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and TIDAL will do to your track with headroom-aware gain limits.
- Album Ordering: Drag and reorder songs into your album sequence. Order persists through rescans, restarts, and relink flows.
- Checklists & Ratings: Per-song checklist workflow and 1–10 rating slider to annotate and evaluate tracks.
- Time-Stamped Checklist Notes: Add a checklist item and it captures the exact playback position. Click the timestamp to jump right back.
- Export Latest: Exports the latest version of every song as numbered, album-sequenced files with ordering JSON for handoff.
- Playback Controls: Play/pause, next/previous, repeat, scrub, and volume with per-song playhead continuity.
Free and open source, Producer Player is available for Windows, macOS and Linux.
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