Anyone know of a good organizer to keep track of loops, samples etc? Thanks in advance

The browser works for me. 

Links to ProXL SonicExplorer not working for me.

aural probe. free. nice.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/auralprobe/

Although I use the browser exclusively to audition samples and loops, it could do with some improvements, most notably:

1) Fixing its tendency to crash occasionally when you play a loop
2) Fixing its tendency to occasionally fail to play a loop
3) Enable support for your mouse's back and forward buttons to navigate directories
4) Faster navigation. If you click "back" to a directory that has lots of content, there's an very annoying pause while it loads the whole content list again. 

you could always have a dedicated itunes library for samples....

aural probe. free. nice. 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/auralprobe/ 




I just downloaded this and it seems pretty spiffy

yeah simple enough. love the layout. like the categorization by search strings too which can be filenames or directory path info which gelps when you have samples named sttingxx_a in a guitar sample directory with gtr or guitar in the name.

Why is it that we need 3rd party apps to do what the browser is supposed to do?

vintagevibe


Why is it that we need 3rd party apps to do what the browser is supposed to do?

Well..whether anyone needs it is a personal decision..however the more samples/loops/snippets you have the more you are likley to desire the additional functionality.
 
the browser allows heirarchical viewing of samples/loops in their native file structure.. any library software allows an orthogonal view through that file structure for sorting/categorising/viewing using many alternative methods/tags...  eg mp3 songs have an artist/album/song structure, while a library (say itunes) allows sorting by genre, or bpm etc..