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Uncompressed audio taking gigabytes of space (Android)
I’m still seeing some inefficient on-device storage behaviour from the Android app, and I’d love help to fix this to free up my phone storage. Context Device: Pixel 8 Pro Android: 16 Hedy app version: 2.11.4 As a user, I expect all recordings to: be stored in a compressed format like .m4a contain meaningful audio (I routinely delete Hedy sessions that are not useful, including their recordings) What I’m seeing I inspected the recordings directory from a terminal and generated a report (attached) with filename, modified date, size, and file type. Even though I delete Hedy sessions that aren’t useful, I still end up with: Massive uncompressed .wav files, taking up gigabytes of storage, and Very small “junk” recordings (tiny .wav.m4a files with little/no signal). Total: 501 recordings, ~9.7 GB Most files look fine: Extension: .m4a Type: ISO Media, Apple iTunes ALAC/AAC-LC (.M4A) Audio Problem 1: 46 files with .wav extension Type: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 16000 Hz Total size: ~3.75 GB These are large, uncompressed audio recordings that I expected to be saved as .m4a. Problem 2: 38 files with .wav.m4a extension Also detected as RIFF ... WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 16000 Hz (so actually WAV, not a proper M4A container) Total size: ~16.9 MB Most are very small (< 70 KB) and just contain background noise / no useful content About 9 are around 1.5 MB (still not especially useful content) This feels both wasteful and confusing, given my expectation that everything should be stored efficiently as .m4a and that deleting sessions should remove their recordings. I've attached a a report of the files in CSV format. It shows filename, modification date, size, and file command output (file type). Questions Is the app expected to ever store raw .wav files on disk, or should everything end up as compressed .m4a? Are .wav.m4a files an indication of a failed conversion / cleanup step (e.g. temp WAV file that never got transcoded or renamed correctly)? When I delete a Hedy session in the app, should that reliably remove all associated recordings (including any temp or raw files)? Thanks! Let me know what I can do to help fix this.
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