dragging into the browser

Live's browser is a window into your computer's file architecture & naturally is the most straightforward way to save samples as you create them as you can drag clips directly into the folders you keep here. Now, this is pretty simple/obvious, but there are a few things you should keep in mind.

When you drag a clip into the browser a new project folder is created. In the root of that folder you'll find a file with the sound's name but the format is .alc - an Ableton proprietary format for clips - which references the audio in the newly created project but does not contain any audio itself. If you move your samples around for organization it's easy for this system to break down as the two files can easily get separated, lost, or accidentally deleted. I think it's better to just keep the audio on its own - you can find it in the "samples" folder under its appropriate category. From here, you can move the .wav file to your sample library.