Release notes

Fixed

• Audio file path resolution for large sessions whose media spans multiple drives. In a session with files interleaved across several volumes, some files could still resolve to the wrong location (and show offline or fail to play).

Added

• PT Peek now checks for Full Disk Access at launch and explains how to grant it. Full Disk Access lets PT Peek read audio files stored on external drives, network volumes, and in protected folders like Downloads and Documents. If a file read is blocked, PT Peek now shows how to fix it instead of failing silently.

Changed

• Audio file paths are displayed without the /Volumes mount prefix, so online and offline files show the path the same way and the text is shorter.

Fixed

• License detection at startup is more reliable. The license helper now waits for PACE's licensing service to be fully ready before its first check, avoiding a spurious "unlicensed" state right after login.
• Audio files on external or secondary volumes — including Pro Tools sessions that reference media across multiple drives — now resolve and play correctly. Previously they could incorrectly show as offline.
• Copy / paste / cut / undo / redo now work in every text field in the app (Bug Report, Feature Request, license sign-in, etc.). The Edit menu's Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo/Redo items were previously emptied out, which silently broke the corresponding keyboard shortcuts inside text inputs.

Fixed

• Audio files referenced via Finder aliases (including Resilio Sync selective-sync placeholders) are now resolved to their real target before checking existence, playing back, or importing to Pro Tools.

Fixed

• Audio playback to multi-format devices (Universal Audio Apollo, Pro Tools Aggregate I/O, and similar) that report duplicate L/R channel labels now plays out of the main monitor pair instead of a higher-numbered aux/cue pair that typically has nothing connected.

Changed

• License helper now waits for PACE's LicenseD daemon to come up before attempting license checks. Avoids a hang when LicenseD isn't running yet (briefly at user login, or indefinitely on a misconfigured iLok install).
• Troubleshooting window now distinguishes a "hung" helper from a "not running" one, and Report A Problem submissions now include helper-side startup events from before the app launched — helpful when diagnosing "license not detected" issues.

Changed

• License helper now waits for PACE's LicenseD daemon to come up before attempting license checks. Avoids a hang when LicenseD isn't running yet (briefly at user login, or indefinitely on a misconfigured iLok install).
• Troubleshooting window now distinguishes a "hung" helper from a "not running" one, and Report A Problem submissions now include helper-side startup events from before the app launched — helpful when diagnosing "license not detected" issues.

Added

• Audio output menu now has a "Report A Problem…" item that opens Send Bug Report with a diagnostic log of recent audio playback attempts (device, channel routing, file/clip info) pre-attached.

Changed

• Troubleshooting → iLok License Manager row now shows the PACE LicenseD daemon version. Same info is included in Report A Problem submissions.
• Report A Problem (licensing) now captures helper-side events too — previously only app-side events made it into the report, which made it hard to diagnose helper-specific issues.

Fixed

• Session Setup tempo now reads the Manual Tempo widget value when Pro Tools' Conductor is disabled. Previously, sessions with Conductor off were displayed as "120 BPM" regardless of the actual tempo Pro Tools plays.

Added

• Help → Troubleshooting now has a Report A Problem… button. Clicking it opens Send Bug Report with a license diagnostic transcript pre-attached — PACE/helper/token/Keychain status plus an event log of license activity since launch — so "license not detected" reports include enough context to debug without back-and-forth.

Fixed

• Import to Pro Tools: Clips not importing correctly when sample rate converted.
• Import to Pro Tools: Track color not processed correctly in some cases.
• Import to Pro Tools: Import with duplicate track name error.
• Session Setup: Interleaved field not reading correctly foer some sessions.
• Tracks list: Playlist clips not seen in some cases.

Changed

• Report A Problem… button for Import errors automatically lets you notify us of a problem so we can fix it fast. Thank you, Paul

Added

• Every Import to Pro Tools dialog (success and error) now has a Report A Problem… button. Clicking it opens Send Bug Report with a diagnostic transcript pre-attached as a text file (sample rate, frame rate, session start, full PTSL command/response log) and a context-aware description pre-filled. No more digging in Console.app to send a useful report.

Fixed

• Right-clicking a clip and choosing "Import to Pro Tools…" now imports the selected clip(s) — the same as the File menu command. Previously it ran the audio-files import flow by mistake.

Fixed

• Quick Look preview and "Open With → PT Peek" no longer hang on a spinner when previewing certain large sessions (the parser was getting stuck on a block-size overflow inside the .ptx file).

Fixed

• Session Setup reports the correct frame rate on some 23.976 fps sessions that the previous parser misread as 29.97 fps. (Follow-up to the 25 fps fix in 1.0.1.41 — these sessions stored the rate in a different location.)

Fixed

• Export Session Report: the exported PDF was rendering with white text on a white background when macOS was in dark mode. The report now always uses dark text on its white page regardless of the system appearance.

Fixed

• Session Setup now reports the correct frame rate and start time on sessions that the previous parser misread — most visibly some 25 fps sessions and sessions whose timecode starts at non-zero values such as 00:59:30.

Changed

• Marketing version simplified from "1.0.0" to "1.0". No code changes vs. 1.0.0.38.

Changed

• First public 1.0 release. Same code as the most recent 0.9.0 beta — marketing version bumped to mark general availability.

Changed

• First public 1.0 release. Same code as the most recent 0.9.0 beta — version bumped to mark general availability.

Changed

• Renamed the "Purchase" / "Purchase License" buttons (Welcome window, Troubleshooting window, unlicensed banner) to "Buy", pointing at the new purchase page at app.neyrinck.com.
• Help menu now offers "Buy License…" below "Activate License…" when PT Peek is unlicensed.

Fixed

• Multi-mono playback (stereo / 5.1 / 7.1 clips and audio files) now stops and rewinds the playhead to the start when it reaches the end, matching how single-file playback behaves. Previously the playhead stayed pinned at the end and the row had to be clicked twice to play again.
• Multi-mono channels are now routed to the correct output speakers based on their channel label (.L → Left, .R → Right, .C → Center, .Ls → Left Surround, etc.) instead of by file order. Sessions where Pro Tools wrote .R before .L no longer play swapped, and the play button, space bar, and standalone audio window all route identically.
• Multi-channel output devices configured in Audio MIDI Setup → Configure Speakers (Quad, 5.1, 7.1) now have all of their channels recognized correctly. Previously only the first two channels of any device with more than two outputs were treated as L/R and the rest were unaddressable, which could send a 5.1 file's surround channels to silent outputs.
• Fixed multi-mono playback through 16-channel output devices (BlackHole 16, large aggregates, HDX): each input was being smeared across all 16 outputs at very low gain instead of routing to the correct stereo pair.
• Send Bug Report: the placeholder text inside the Description box ("Please describe the issue with as much detail as possible…") is now visible.

Changed

• Send Bug Report submissions now include a System info block at the bottom of the report (PT Peek version, macOS version, iLok / PACE availability, Helper status, license token state, Quick Look extension registration), so we don't have to ask follow-up questions to triage.

Changed

• Preview content now stays anchored to the top-leading corner at any window or Finder column width. When the window is too narrow to show every column, the view scrolls horizontally instead of centering the content and clipping both sides.
• Column header labels (Comments, Inserts, etc.) and Session Setup values truncate or stay on one line instead of wrapping when the window narrows.
• The PT Peek window minimum width is now 240 pt (was 500 pt) so it can be tested at Finder column-view widths.

Changed

• Session Setup now collapses from three columns to two when the window is too narrow to fit all three.
• The preview stays left-justified when the window or Finder column is narrower than the content. Previously content was centered and clipped on both sides; now any overflow only clips on the right.

Fixed

• Offline audio files in the Tracks and Clips sections now show the Audio File Path in italics, and the inline waveform column shows an italic "Offline" label instead of an empty player.

Changed

• Up/down arrow navigation in the Tracks section now flows through expanded tracks Finder-style: arrowing down off a track header steps into its first clip, arrowing past the last clip steps to the next track, and arrowing up from a clip lands on its track header.

Changed

• While inline playback is active, pressing up/down (and left/right when they change the selection) now switches playback to follow the new selection. Arrow keys still only change selection if nothing is playing. Selecting a track header stops playback.

Changed

• Pressing space to play a multi-mono clip or audio file now plays all channels together (matching the inline waveform play button).

Fixed

• Fixed a crash when clicking play on a multi-mono waveform while the system output device has more than 2 channels (e.g. 5.1, 7.1, HDX, BlackHole, multi-output aggregate).

Fixed

• After installing an update, PT Peek now restarts its background License Helper so the new helper code takes effect immediately — including when upgrading from a build that didn't yet record the helper's last-seen version. Previously the old helper kept running until the next logout or reboot.

Fixed

• After installing an update, PT Peek now restarts its background License Helper so the new helper code takes effect immediately. Previously the old helper kept running until the next logout or reboot.

Fixed

• Tracks containing clip groups (.grp compound regions) now display their member clips on the timeline instead of appearing empty.

Added

• Import to Pro Tools: when the source session's sample rate doesn't match the open Pro Tools session, the dialog now offers "Convert and Import" instead of blocking. Conversion uses Pro Tools' built-in sample-rate / bit-depth conversion.
• Import to Pro Tools: imported tracks now carry the source track's color (Pro Tools 2025.09 or later required). Tracks left at PT's default color in the source pick up PT's per-type default in the destination.
• Import to Pro Tools now supports Aux / Master / VCA / MIDI tracks (and any other clip-less track type) — these create a track of the matching type with no clips.
• Selecting a clip inside an expanded track row now enables File → Import to Pro Tools and routes the import through the Clips dialog, matching the standalone Clips section behavior.

Changed

• Audio Files import: imports the audio file into Pro Tools' clip list with no track created. Previously this created a new track named after the file.
• Import to Pro Tools written paginated documentation (in repo at IMPORT_TO_PRO_TOOLS.md) so future improvements have a stable reference for sequencing, JSON shapes, and edge cases.

Fixed

• Stereo Aux track import no longer silently does nothing — a stereo Aux track is now created in Pro Tools.
• Stereo tracks whose .L and .R clips share one interleaved stereo source file (Pro Tools' "mono views" of a stereo .wav) now import successfully. Previously Pro Tools rejected the CreateAudioClips call with "Invalid source channel identifier 'SChannel_Mono' for file format 'SFormat_Stereo'".
• Importing clips no longer fails with "Invalid clip name '.L', consider using ''" — clip names with multi-mono suffixes are stripped before being sent to Pro Tools.
• Right-clicking a .ptx file in Finder and choosing Open With → PT Peek opens a session window when PT Peek is already running. The Welcome / splash window stays open instead of closing.
• The "Tracks to import (0)" issue on first menu-triggered import is fixed — sheets capture their data atomically.
• File → Import to Pro Tools is enabled the first time you select a track in a freshly opened window (no app-switch dance needed).
• Inline waveform player no longer fails with -50 when playing a clip whose source file is interleaved stereo (or any multichannel file).

Fixed

• Right-clicking a .ptx file in Finder and choosing Open With → PT Peek now opens a session window when PT Peek is already running. (It used to silently do nothing in the hot-launch case.)
• Opening a session no longer closes the Welcome window — the splash stays where it is until you close it.

Added

• The PKG installer's success page now includes a Launch PT Peek link, with a friendly reminder to launch the app once so the Quick Look preview extension is ready.

Added

• File → Export Session Report… (⌘P) writes a paginated PDF report of the current session — Session Setup, Tracks, Audio Files, Clips, Plugins, and Memory Locations. The PDF is built from the parsed session data (not the on-screen UI), so collapsed sections and offscreen rows are all included. The Tracks section preserves track colors and folder-depth indentation.

Changed

• Check for Updates… moved from the Help menu to the PT Peek application menu (under About PT Peek), matching macOS conventions.

Added

• Multi-mono audio files and clips now display as a single grouped path (e.g. Drums.(L R).wav) and play all sibling channels together. Audio Files and Clips both honor this for stereo, 5.1, 7.1, etc.
• Each track's clip rows is now its own selection scope. Selecting a clip in Track A no longer also lights up the same clip in Track B or in the standalone Clips section. Up/Down arrow keys move within whichever scope you last clicked in (Tracks, a specific track's clips, Audio Files, or Clips).
• Tracks list now infers a format when Pro Tools didn't write one: video tracks display "Video" and audio tracks with multi-mono sibling clips display "Stereo" / "5.1" / "7.1" / etc.

Fixed

• Inline waveform player: clicking ahead of the cursor on a long stereo (or any multi-mono) clip or file now jumps the cursor forward instead of snapping back to the start.

Changed

• Audio output picker temporarily shows only "System Default" while per-device routing is being finished.

Added

• Track rows that have clips now use a play-style triangle for the disclosure control (right-pointing when collapsed, down-pointing when expanded), hinting at the audio content beneath.

Changed

• License Activate and Deactivate now sign in with iLok in your default browser instead of an embedded web view. PT Peek opens iLok's sign-in page, you complete sign-in there, and the app receives the result automatically. Cached and refreshed credentials still work silently — the browser only opens when sign-in is actually required.

Fixed

• Newer Pro Tools sessions whose clip timeline positions are stored as ticks (rather than raw samples) now display correctly in the Overview universe and ruler. Previously every clip looked offset by ~21 hours and the universe stretched accordingly.
• Selected-clip highlight in the universe is now visible in Light mode (was invisible against the white background) and no longer gets clipped for clips on the top track row.

Added

• Overview now has a time ruler beneath the universe view. Click it to switch between Min:Sec, Timecode, Bars|Beats, Feet+Frames, and Samples.
• The ruler opens in whichever format the session's Main Counter is set to in Pro Tools (Bars|Beats falls back to Min:Sec on multi-tempo sessions, which aren't supported yet).
• Selecting a clip — from the Clips section or from inside a track row — highlights every matching clip rectangle in the universe with an inverted color and a white outline so you can see where it lives on the session timeline.
• Send Feature Request and Send Bug Report show a confirmation screen with an OK button after a successful submission, instead of vanishing immediately.

Changed

• Overview "Locations" section header is now "Memory Locations" to match Pro Tools terminology.

Added

• Deactivate License window now offers an in-window iLok sign-in when cached credentials are missing or have expired, so deactivation works on fresh systems without going through Activate first.

Changed

• Right-click "Reveal in Finder" and "Import to Pro Tools…" menu items are no longer obscured by the unlicensed placeholder.

Fixed

• Picking Reveal in Finder or Import to Pro Tools while unlicensed now shows a "PT Peek is not licensed." dialog instead of silently failing.

Changes

• Improvements and bug fixes

Changes

• Improvements and bug fixes

Changes

• Improvements and bug fixes