Sample the web from inside your DAW.
Paste a URL, clip the range, watch it render, drag the waveform straight into your playlist.
StashTrack is a VST3 that downloads the section you want from any yt-dlp-supported URL, renders a clean WAV with a waveform preview inside the plugin, and hands it to your DAW as a native OS file drag — the same drop FL Studio would receive from Explorer. Its entire UI is a React + TypeScript app rendered natively (no webview) by the VSReacT engine (source).
Publisher: N9 Records Website: https://stashtrack.n9records.com Support: stashtrack-support@n9records.com Version: v0.8.2 Copyright: Copyright (c) 2026 N9 Records License: StashTrack Non-Commercial License v0.1. Free to use, copy, modify, and share for non-commercial purposes only. No commercial use or profit is allowed.
- URL → WAV → playlist in one motion: paste, download, drag. No export dialogs.
- Clip before you download — mark start/end (
30,1:23,2:14:05.5); segment streams mean a 2-hour set gives up its 15 seconds in seconds. - Live progress — the bar under the URL shows real yt-dlp percentages.
- Preview playback — play/pause through the plugin output, scrub the bar under the waveform, watch the playhead track across it.
- The Stash — your last 50 downloads in a sliding drawer; click any entry to reload it for preview and drag.
- Auto-updates — checks GitHub on open. Windows installs in place; macOS/Linux are pointed at the right download for their platform.
- A UI that feels like 2026 — splash screen, animated knob-grade controls, hover states everywhere; written in React, painted by C++ at 60fps.
Grab the latest build for your platform from stashtrack.n9records.com or the releases page:
| Platform | Package | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | StashTrackSetup.exe |
Bundles yt-dlp, ffmpeg, Deno, uv/uvx, and the VC++ runtime — a fresh PC needs nothing else. Installs to the system VST3 folder. |
| macOS | StashTrack-macOS.pkg |
Installs to /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3. Currently unsigned (no Apple Developer ID yet): right-click the .pkg → Open, or allow it under Privacy & Security. Install tools with brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg. |
| Linux | StashTrack-linux-x86_64.tar.gz |
Run ./install.sh (installs to ~/.vst3). Needs ffmpeg and yt-dlp on PATH. |
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Requires CMake 3.22+, a C++17 toolchain, JUCE, Bun, and a checkout of the VSReacT framework as the parent directory (this repo nests inside it — see its README).
# UI bundle
cd jsui-vsreact
bun install
bun run build
# Plugin (Windows; see .github/workflows for macOS/Linux invocations)
cmake -S . -B build-vs -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 -DJUCE_SOURCE_DIR=path/to/JUCE
cmake --build build-vs --target StashTrack_VST3 --config Release
ctest --test-dir build-vs -C Release --output-on-failureDev builds (-DSTASHTRACK_VSREACT_DEV=ON, the default) hot-reload the UI:
rebuild the bundle while the plugin is open and it remounts in place — no DAW
restart. Release/installer builds embed the bundle in the binary.
The Windows installer is produced by
installer/windows/build-installer.ps1; macOS/Linux packages by the scripts
under installer/macos and installer/linux. All three are built and
attached to releases automatically by .github/workflows/release.yml when a
v* tag is pushed.
Source/— processor (preview transport), editor (VSReacT host + native waveform drag), download/update/history utilities.jsui-vsreact/— the React + TypeScript UI app.stashtrack-landing/— the product site (Next.js on Render).installer/— per-platform packaging.Tools/—UiProbe(offscreen UI verification with synthetic input) andDownloadProbe(live yt-dlp progress smoke test).Tests/— download/packaging test suites (run via CTest).
StashTrack's original code and materials are under the StashTrack Non-Commercial License v0.1 — free to use, copy, modify, and share for non-commercial purposes; no commercial use or profit without written permission from N9 Records. Third-party dependencies keep their own licenses.