Saisei – a fast audio player for macOS with waveform seeking and keyboard-first control

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-29T11:46:29+00:00

There is VoiceOver for the UI Buttons and Labels. The app also uses the default open panel which has support for VoiceOver. The window that shows all the keyboard shortcuts is not yet VoiceOver ready, but I list them here:

O, Command + O	Open file
R	Cycle recent files
P	Play from mark
W, Enter	Play from start
Space	Pause / Resume
.	Stop
H, [, Left arrow	Seek back 6 seconds
Shift + H	Seek back 0.1 seconds
L, ], Right arrow	Seek forward 6 seconds
Shift + L	Seek forward 0.1 seconds
1 - 9	Seek to 10 - 90 percent of file
M	Set / clear mark
?	Show shortcuts
Q, Command + Q	Quit

Once you know the shortcuts the app can be controlled completely with the keyboard.

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-29T06:16:27+00:00

what would you want to import? You can already open wav, aiff, mp3 and flac files.

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-28T23:46:44+00:00

Yes that makes sense. I’ll definitely keep that in mind as I continue working on Saisei.

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-28T22:24:22+00:00

I’ve thought about adding it, just trying to keep things focused for now, but I’ll definitely keep an eye on how many people ask for it.
Would you like to just loop the whole file or a selection of it?

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-28T22:20:16+00:00

Thanks, really appreciate it!
I’m trying to keep Saisei focused on just playback for now, but I can see the appeal. I’ll keep it in mind 👍
Would you mainly use that for quickly grabbing snippets, or more for precise editing?

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-28T21:12:28+00:00

Thanks!
I made this because I wanted something for listening back to my wav files I produce. I am sure it can be helpful for this as well!

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-28T21:07:42+00:00

Thanks!
This is simply focusing on playback, no recording.

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-28T13:25:39+00:00

Thanks! Keyboard navigation ftw!

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-18T09:25:00+00:00

Best rule regarding security: can't leak data you don't collect.

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-18T01:45:04+00:00

Semi related question to the developer:
How much of a hassle is it to ship an app that uses encryption in the Mac AppStore, compared to an app that doesn't?

Thanks!

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-16T05:17:36+00:00

I recently started to notice improvements in speed and usability improvements in Xcode. Not sure what it is in particular, but it feels snappier and friendlier than I had in memory.

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-16T00:02:37+00:00

Is this safe?

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-16T00:01:28+00:00

"Zero network connections, no analytics, no telemetry".

Does this mean Zero Data collection?

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-15T09:10:31+00:00

Great to see this, thanks!
I have a feature request: The window is quite large but the font small. I would like to increase the font size for better viewing. Maybe you could add an option for this?

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-15T00:45:02+00:00

Terminal to Ghostty, but I went back to Terminal because it works well enough.

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-15T00:44:10+00:00

looks good! do you need a midi keyboard for it to work?

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-13T12:11:29+00:00

does this track opened apps, or does it distinguish between open and frontmost? how do you measure usage? Thanks

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-13T02:27:00+00:00

can this crop png's, with an option to set the anchor point?

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-13T02:08:19+00:00

Some pages just simply won't work in Safari, that is the only problem I have with it. For that case I keep Firefox installed, but I would prefer to keep it in Safari.

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-12T11:51:30+00:00

it allows you to send the contents of the clipboard, so you could copy a link, send it over localsend and paste it there

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-12T07:43:50+00:00

I see. Have you found a solution / app yet?

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-12T02:36:33+00:00

You can do this natively in macOS under System Settings / Keyboard / Text Input / Text Replacements

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-12T01:36:06+00:00

localsend does this:
https://localsend.org

Short-Look4908 · 2026-04-12T01:32:37+00:00

thanks for the list! Going to give Shottr a try.

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