Tools
CueOrganizer
A cue library, search engine, and delivery tool for working composers.
For macOS · local-first library
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At a Glance
- A home for every cue you’ve ever written. Years of film, TV, and trailer work end up scattered across project folders, old drives, and forgotten sessions. CueOrganizer pulls it all into one searchable, taggable library — so your back catalog becomes something you actually use.
- Find music you already own. When a director asks for “something tense, around 90 BPM,” search by mood, instrumentation, genre, key, or project and be auditioning candidates in seconds — instead of digging through Finder and guessing from filenames.
- Deliver without reopening a session. Loudness-target mastering (Spotify, YouTube, broadcast, or custom) and batch export with filename templates mean a pitch reel or delivery folder comes straight out of the library — no DAW required.
- Nothing is destructive. Tags, gain, clips, and metadata live in the database; your original audio files are never touched until you explicitly export.
- Works across all your machines. The library is a local folder you own — sync it through Dropbox or iCloud and every edit propagates, with field-level conflict resolution when two machines touch the same cue.
Inside CueOrganizer
Your Whole Library at a Glance
Every cue you’ve ever written, filterable by project, tag, or free-text search — with composer, key, BPM, time signature, and duration all visible in the columns you care about. Pick a project on the left to scope the view; select any row to work on it.
Find the Right Cue in Seconds
Type into the search box and the library narrows in real time across titles, notes, and composer. Combine it with project chips or tag filters to zero in on “the tense piano piece from Nightfall, around 90 BPM” without scrolling — even at 400+ tracks.
Edit Ten Cues at Once — Safely
Multi-select cues and every field turns into an opt-in checkbox: only the fields you tick get overwritten, everything else stays as-is. Ideal for retagging a whole project, assigning a composer, or moving a batch between projects in one pass.
A Composer’s Tag Vocabulary, Pre-Loaded
600+ musical descriptors are seeded into every library out of the box — Epic, Mysterious, Ambient, Genres, Instrumentation, Production Era, Character, and more — grouped into 27 categories so a fresh library is never a blank slate. Add your own custom tags and categories anytime.
Manage the Vocabulary the Way You Think About Music
Flat table view of every tag: rename, recolor, delete, or fetch synonyms so a search for “creepy” also matches your “Eerie” and “Haunting” cues. Each change propagates across every library on this account.
Group Cues by Film, Show, or Trailer Reel
Projects sit above cues — one per score or album — with a color chip that flows through the sidebar and cue-table. A note field keeps brief-to-brief context, and the cue count tells you at a glance whether that project’s ready to deliver.
Loudness-Target Mastering, Without Leaving the Library
Pick a target (Spotify, YouTube, broadcast, custom) and CueOrganizer computes exactly how much gain each cue needs to hit it — LUFS, non-silent LUFS, and true-peak all measured with ffmpeg-quality analysis. Apply per-cue or across every visible cue in one click. Gain is non-destructive; source files stay untouched until export.
Multi-Library Setup + Cross-Device Sync
Enable as many libraries as you want — local, on a NAS, or synced via Dropbox/iCloud — and pick which one imports land in. Give each device a display name so the conflict log tells you which laptop overrode which desktop, and configure per-library defaults for composer and loudness target.
Every Edit Propagates, Every Device in Sync
Cue rows, tags, projects, ratings, gain settings — anything you change on one machine syncs to every other machine sharing the library folder, with field-level conflict detection when two devices touch the same cue at once. The Sync button gives instant feedback: what pushed, what pulled, what needs your attention.
Batch Import With Per-Cue Polish
Drop in a folder of new tracks and the import dialog lets you set composer, project, and tags for the whole batch in the Apply to all strip, then walk cue-by-cue to fine-tune title, key, BPM, time sig, notes, and per-cue tags — with a scrubable waveform preview so you can name each track from memory instead of guessing.
Everything a Cue Holds, in One View
This is a single cue’s full record, end to end: metadata, versions, clips, mastering analysis, and the entire tag lexicon with the active tags highlighted. Every field is inline-editable — no separate edit screen, no lost context.
Every field you’d want on hand while scoring — composer, year, project, key, BPM, time signature, notes — plus a live-scrubable waveform and tag list. Edits commit as you type; nothing to save.
Specs
- macOS 12+
- Local-first library — your audio lives in a folder you choose, never in a cloud you don’t control
- ffmpeg-quality loudness analysis and rendering built in
- Cross-device sync through Dropbox, iCloud, or any synced folder
- Installed, licensed, and updated through the free Accent Tap Hub
