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Rewind: Reverse Voice Recorder | 3.1 ⭐️ | Free with IAP | 4.4MB |
> Rewind allows you to passively record your surroundings. This app continuously runs in the background and records everything your phone hears, allowing you to save recent recording when you hear something you would like to ...
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Ambient voice recording app (Android)
Leave it running in the background and it'll continuously record the last hour (or 3 hours if you pay a couple bucks). If something happens, hit save.
Uses bugger all battery, so I used to leave it running back when I was in a more dodgy living situation. Sometimes can stop phonecalls from working because the mic is being used by the app, just FYI.
Not that I'd expect you'd need it necessarily, but might be handy if they try to kick you out. My assumption is that you'd be considered a tenant and they'd have to formally evict you with a notice period.
Rewind: Reverse Voice Recorder | 2.5 ⭐️ | Free with IAP | 4.4MB |
> Rewind allows you to passively record your surroundings. This app continuously runs in the background and records everything your phone hears, allowing you to save recent recording when you hear something you would like to ...
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I only ever found the Rewind app.
Not too bad really. Though you might be unlucky and it will let you down in weird ways. Try it out extensively before using it live, to be sure you can trust it on your phone and configuration etc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=icechen1.com.blackbox
I used "Rewind" in the past https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=icechen1.com.blackbox
Rewind: Reverse Voice Recorder | 2.5 ⭐️ | Free with IAP | 4.4MB |
Simple Voice Recorder | 4.6 ⭐️ | Free | 6.5MB |
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Rewind: Reverse Voice Recorder | 3.0 rating | Free with IAP | 100,000+ downloads | Search manually
> Rewind allows you to passively record your surroundings. This app continuously runs in the background and records everything your phone hears, allowing you to save recent recording when you hear something you would like to ...
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Rewind: Reverse Voice Recorder - 2.8 rating - Free with IAP - Search manually
Smart Recorder – High-quality voice recorder - 4.6 rating - Free with IAP - Search manually
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Should add Rewind to your list.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=icechen1.com.blackbox&hl=en_CA
/u/icechen1's somewhat new release <em>Rewind: Reverse Voice Recorder</em> is free, has its source code available, and is currently rated 3.5/5.0 stars (partially due to people misinterpreting its name).
<em>Easy Voice Recorder</em> will probably work just fine for your purpose, or anyone who stumbles upon this thread with the same need, but I still felt the need to add it to the list.
Yes, Cogi comes to mind, and I think there may be one or two other apps with something like that (though I can't remember them at the moment).
Cogi has the option to be listening so you can press record and it will record last 15 seconds or something like that. And there is another app called Rewind which I think does the same (though may not do the notes/tags part).
We would recommend our app - for lecture recording etc. - but it does not have the notes/tags feature.
it has some other features however which maybe useful for lecture recording:
you can use the Ear Detect feature - so you can just flip the phone on your desk and it will start recording - this way you can record just the parts you want - without having to fiddle with buttons etc.
it has a real-time monitoring feature - just plug in earphones before you start recording and it will mirror to your earphones - then you can click Effects - Volume (or Equalizer) and set things so you are recording ok- or even amplifying the speaker to the level you want
for the Ear Detect feature you can even set up Pause Away from Ear setting - so that it Stops instead of Pausing (this way every time you flip phone so it is face down it will record a new file) - later you can use the Folder (which is a full featured file manager - choice of 5 top file managers) to organize your recordings.
while recording you can quickly organize recordings into Trash/Favorites sub-folders (or a Cloud folder) - so in a way it is a way to tag - but only in these 3 types of classes (the process to categorize is very fast and intuitive - click Action button on bottom-right and Trash etc.)
I would think it might be simpler to use the Ear Detect feature and essentially split up your lecture into the sound bites you want - instead of constantly be busy with the phone fiddling with typing in notes and tags etc. - with our way you would not even have to think about the app while taking your notes or listening.
By default the recordings are organized into Daily Folders - and the files themselves are time-stamped. If you use Ear Detect and set the Pause Away from Ear setting to Off (i.e. so it does record/stop instead of record/pause) - then you would create many files for that lecture. Then after lecture just click Folder - and select files and put them into a sub-folder to keep things neat etc. You would not be able to tag/notes - but you could every time you flip the phone to record say something to identify the section (not ideal).
Interestingly, Auto Shazam is an iOS-exclusive feature because, as of Android 4.4 at the end of 2013:
> Danker told me that Shazam would love to bring the same functionality to its Android apps, but as of now, Android doesn’t allow two apps to use your microphone at the same time. In other words: You wouldn’t be able to do answer a phone call while Shazam was running. The company is currently talking to Google (S GOOG) to get this fixed in future versions of Android.
https://gigaom.com/2013/12/19/shazam-adds-automatic-music-and-tv-show-recognition-to-its-iphone-app/
I'm not sure if the situation changed with Android 6.0.
I note that Shazam haven't updated the iOS app to use the Apple Watch's microphone through watchOS 2, rather than the mic of the iPod touch / iPhone / iPad.
Anyway, thanks for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=icechen1.com.blackbox , /u/icechen1 .
With reference to https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/46fx06/dev_just_released_rewind_a_voice_recorder_that/d055m4b , have you tested it in conjunction with any phones that can record calls natively in https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nll.acr and/or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skvalex.callrecorder ?