IcedAudioFinder
The audio library and production base station Mac producers relied on from 2003 to 2026. It is still here, and it still works. It is no longer for sale: its successor is AudioCortex 2.
Your existing code keeps working · not sold any more · free on request for AudioCortex 2 owners
Questions about AudioFinder? Write to support@icedaudio.com.
Why AudioCortex is a new app, not AudioFinder 7
AudioFinder is in maintenance mode. It runs natively on Apple silicon and on Intel, it gets fixes when macOS needs them, and existing licences keep working. New features go into AudioCortex.
AudioFinder’s design is twenty years old, and macOS has changed almost everything underneath it since then. Rather than keep stretching it, we started fresh. AudioCortex keeps what AudioFinder did best: browsing, previewing, tagging and finding your sounds fast. It’s built for today’s Macs, with room to grow: instruments, an editor, tracks, and Oscilla, the cybernetic assistant.
New in 6.1 Universal
AudioFinder runs natively on Apple silicon (6.1.1 makes sure it opens that way, rather than under Rosetta). One download carries both the Apple silicon and the Intel version, and Rosetta is no longer needed. The audio engine, its mixers and your Audio Unit plug-ins all work in the native version, and Ogg Vorbis plays on both.
REX files still need the ReCycle Library, which has no Apple silicon version here: on an Apple silicon Mac, open AudioFinder using Rosetta to play them, or install a current library from the maker of Reason. Also fixed: shift-click extends a selection in the sample editor again, a fade-out follows the trim end only when there is one, and the dark look reaches the release notes, the Delay Calculator and a few clipped labels.
6.0.10 made the Tag Browser match whole tags and let tag renames and deletes reach every file that carries them. Since 6.0.8, the old 2021 AudioCortex that was built into AudioFinder is gone: its menu and toolbar button say “Open in AudioCortex 2” and open the real one.
On 6.0.7 or later? Check for Updates offers 6.1.1. On 6.0.6? Download it here: 6.0.6 can’t verify this update on its own.
Already own it?
Keep using it. Authorize it with your code as before (AudioFinder ▸ Authorize…). Lost the code? Re-send it to the address you bought with on the purchase page.
Moving to AudioCortex 2?
Thank you for the years. AudioFinder stays yours; AudioCortex 2 is $99 during the beta, the same intro price as for everyone.
Own AudioCortex 2?
You can have AudioFinder too, free. Write to support@icedaudio.com with your AudioCortex 2 code and we'll send you an AudioFinder code.
Groundbreaking Mac Finder integration
Sophisticated metadata database with notes for keeping track of things
Integrated Audio Editor — trim/loop/fade with beat slicer
Browser, bookmarks, history, favorites and navigation tools
Apple Loop, BWF and ACID Wav metadata display, multi-channel playback and display
Formats: Apple Loops, CAF, AIFF, AIFC, SDII, BWF, WAV, REX, RX2, MP3, AAC, M4A, SYX, MID, FLAC, OGG Vorbis
Peak analysis, pitch analyzer, Micro-Harmonic Sound Compare, find duplicate sounds by analyzing content
Reviews
“With pitch detection, BPM calculation and MIDI triggering too, AudioFinder is the missing link in your audio-production chain.”
— Macworld UK
“This is a superb program that stands out as an essential purchase for Mac musos.”
— Computer Music Magazine
“We had some fine choices this year, but when the dust settled, the nod went to Iced Audio's AudioFinder, a Mac OS X jack-of-all-trades utility that takes the grind out of managing your audio files. AudioFinder automates and simplifies so many tedious tasks, it's hard to know where to start.”
— Electronic Musician Magazine
“AudioFinder has been my right-hand man (on my right-hand monitor) for every film and television series that I've scored over the last 10 years. It has the speed, the tools, the look, and flow that a professional music app should have. My sounds would be lost in a sea of digital entropy without it.”
— Greg Tripi · greg-tripi.com
Ambassadors
AudioFinder was used in pro studios, film and TV scoring suites, game audio shops and sound design houses around the world.
- The Glitch Mob
- Richard Devine
- Groove Quantize
- Andy Martin · sound designer
- Fork Media · film post-production sound studio, Hong Kong
- Paul Haslinger
- Len Sasso
- ScrewMaker Music
- Jafbox Sound
- Surround SFX
- Mark Hessburg
- Combovaria · music production & sound design
- Watkins Film School · Scott W. Hallgren (composer/sound editor)
- BT · Brian Transeau
- Damian Candusso · The Lego Movie
- Johnnyrandom · BBC, NPR, Wired, Apogee, Boing Boing
- SoundBits · sound design / SoundFX
- Loris "Kooza" Venegoni · producer (Milan, CPM)
- Smart Post Sound · Matthew Kallen
- Clinton Bradley · Nine Inch Nails programmer, FreqMachine
- Greg Tripi · film & TV composer