NEOFINDER
I first heard about NeoFinder on the Audio NowCast— this entry, it seems, will be rife with capitalized words shoved together with no spaces between them (I’m sure there’s a fancy word for that, but I don’t know what it is). The music and audio veterans on that podcast are always talking about how best to back up the years and years’ worth of material they’ve accumulated on various hard drives, so this software was an item of great interest when one of them brought it up.
On the face of it, NeoFinder is pretty simple. You allow it to scan each hard drive (or SD card, or CD-R, DVD-R, or whatever) that you wish to catalog, which doesn’t take as long as you might think. Then, when you find yourself at the point of needing to resurrect some audio stem or video clip from seven years ago, and you can’t for the life of you remember where it is, you open up NeoFinder, run a search, and bam. The file comes up, and the app tells you which drive (and folder within) to access.
It’s kind of like Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine in terms of prep work, though under a considerably more abbreviated timeline. It’s cheap, like 40 bucks I think. And the feature set apparently runs pretty deep, replete with functionality for all sorts of tags, metadata, and yadda yadda. It’s already saved me a ton of time with a couple of soundfiles I wanted to dredge up from old projects, so I can attest to its utility. So I just wanted to mention it. If you’d find it useful, check it out!
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