By default, recordings are saved to your Music folder. When looking at the download folder, recordings are nested quite deep, as we try to organise recordings so they can be found in a logical order. Folders named Sessions contain recordings you make manually.
If encoding to MP3 with LAME, Ogg Vorbis or FLAC, you can enable Real-Time encoding. There will be no temporary AIFF file created when recording.
When recording, a temporary AIFF file is created which contains the audio. When recording is stopped, this AIFF is then encoded to the audio format of your choice. You can choose to delete the AIFF file or keep it. The AIFF files are fairly large. For every 1 minute of audio, the temporary file is roughly 10 MB in size.
If there is no audio after a set time, recording will stop. This will also stop any scheduled recordings.
Split recordings will start recording into a new file, and send the old file to be encoded. Breaking a recording into chunks is useful for playback on an iPod as you can navigate between each of the chunks, listed in a playlist. Detailed below are some split options.
Only start writing to disk when there is audio playing. If audio stops for some reason (e.g. network congestion, or jump to next track in an online playlist) no data is written so you will not get silence recorded.
If you split by time, you can select to split every few minutes, or you can split a recording 'on the dot'. This means you can have a recording split on the hour, every half-hour, or every 15 minutes. This is useful if you are recording say 2 hours of a radio station, which has half-hour shows, and you want to capture each show individually.