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Retrospective Voice Recorder?
I know this is an iOS based forum, but does anyone happen to know of any retrospective voice recorders, preferably for Android, but really anything along these lines, I'm curious about
Concept: keep an earbud in while I go about my daily life. Beats, melodies, and improvised songs on occuring events pop out all day ... One comes out while grocery shopping, I hit 'save last X min' and bam, voicenote completed
I've gotten BETTER with opening voice notes when inspo hits, but it's kinda cumbersome in most circumstances, and I lose a LOT (that I force convince myself I won't forget this time lol)
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Not android, but loopy pro can do that. The whadisay project I posted on patchstorage is set up to do 1minute retrospectively but can do up to over six minutes retrospectively.
https://patchstorage.com/whadisay/
It can be running while the Lock Screen is on and when loopy is in the background.
Pretty baller! Well done mate.
Probably puts a significant drain on the battery though, I would think.
I guess any always-on recorder would as well, but Loopy has a lot else going on in it. Ideally there'd be some lean recorder, preferably with voice activation.
Not that much of a drain actually. With the screen off and no effects running, it uses surprisingly little cpu.
This is great. I am using it right now. Works very well and no noticeable battery drain (after 4 hours of usage)
Haha funnily enough, whadisay is part of the inspo to my question
First thought was just considering the concept of how wide Retrospective recording is used (or available) then the whadisay template popped into my head as the basis for the available "save last X min" concept on a voice recorder
Sadly, no iPhone, only iPad
However, if I keep the pad close by....
I may have to give this beast a swing (and, you know, get my hands on a bloody iPhone finally lol)
Didn't know loopy could run screen off! Just never a thing I've thought to try
Thanks for the template!
Turns out there were a bunch available like 10yr ago and they just poof lost public interest!
One freeware still available on Fdroid is called Echo (delisted from play store like 7yr ago) - obviously not updated and built for a much older version of Android (reports of it not working proper for many, but others with no issues. By luck, I'm in the latter) but is the base of what I'm looking for (perfect example of concept)
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.mrogalski.saidit/
Downside, only records from phone mic. Hoping for something JUST like this, but will optionally record earbud mic
However its encouraging knowing there's an example I can point towards!
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Still haven't ruled out whadisay on the iPad and keeping it close, however I'll need workaround for phone music/podcast/calls. I'm curious if buds with dual connect would work for mic to iPad but speakers from different phone....
TO THE LAB!!
Well that's interesting
Bluetooth earbud connected to iPad
(never tested much due to latency, but that doesn't matter here), whadisay running smooth
Audio comes out to earbud fine, but I'm more looking for voice recording... And I can't see if there's an option to get audio from Bluetooth bud mic
Understandable if not included at all... Would be non-functional at ALL for regular use- the audio delay to the iPad, double it with return audio from device, and all
But... Is there any workaround or a setting I missed? Or is Bluetooth mic just out of the question entirely?
If the Bluetooth mic is compatible with your device, it should work. You may need to experiment with turning echo cancellation off. The multiroute setting in Loopy’s system settings might make a difference.
They're Pixel Bud Pros so I'll look into that
Discovered an older post about the Air Pod Pros having full connection issues and the Echo Cancelation fix behind that
Attempted that and zero results change. Audio comes into earbuds fine, but only mic options I can find are iPad internal unfortunately (note for clarity: when buds are disconnected, Echo Cancelation is visible. Whether enabled or not, when I connect the buds, audio comes thru the buds and the EC option disappears. So I don't think that's associated in this case)
Side note - hot damn is Wha'd-i-Say exactly what I'm looking for. When I grab an iPhone, that's it, I'll be using this all the time (working on adding on my personal QoL wishes). And if I can get this mic situation sorted, it'll work well even with the few minor "me" caveats (until it's pocketable)
Thanks for pre-cogging all the nitty gritty backend work and constant support!
Edit: tested multiroot audio and buds fully disco'd as warned by the popup
I'll look deeper into comparability but there's zero mic issue on zoom (all works as expected), only popped up in loopy so far