51 of CHEF!'s 54 sounds delivered, measured and trimmed · Audio Manager devlog

The recording above is the app's demo mode. Its sounds are invented and a GIF carries no audio, so nothing in it is a real candidate and nothing here claims how any of it sounds.
66 files are in CHEF!'s hands, covering 51 of its 54 sounds, each with a row naming its source, licence and whether it needs a credit line. Twelve do, and those lines are collected at the top of the table so the game can paste them straight into its credits.
The audition app now carries its own branding — a mascot-and-wordmark lockup by the Art Director, built on a shared header component so every tool in the studio gets the same treatment rather than each one inventing it.
Approve and Reject replaced Keep and Reject across the studio's tools: three words had been in use for one action. A new Reject all unapproved clears a whole shortlist in one click. Every row it writes is marked as a bulk decision and says why, so the record never implies each file was judged one by one — including when a shortlist is cleared with nothing approved at all.
Audio measurement went from reading file headers to real analysis: peaks, clipping, silence at the head and tail, and loudness. The first pass over the delivered set found a 36 dB spread between its quietest and loudest file, and no clipping anywhere.
27.8 seconds of dead silence came out of the set — a sound that starts half a second after you trigger it feels broken, however good the recording — and five files that were secretly mono in a stereo wrapper were halved in size for no loss. None of it touches the stored originals: the changes happen on the way out, so any of it can be undone by rebuilding.
Nothing in this project says how anything sounds. No tool here can listen; the person who can does the judging, and the job is to make that judging cheap.