Optional Storage Locations For Recorded Audio | Feature Requests

Optional Storage Locations For Recorded Audio

Chris Scott

Hi I would love the ability to be able to save my recording to Google Drive and other Cloud Storage Providers. This would free up space on the phone as well as make it easier to share and find recording.

February 3, 2025

Julian Pscheid

Merged in a post:

Can I choose where the audio recordings are stored on the desktop app for Mac. I would like to store them on the external SSD for doctor, or icloud for IOS

Osman

2 days ago

Julian Pscheid

Merged in a post:

Allow specifying storage directory for audio files

Julian Pscheid

Add the ability to manually select a local folder to store the audio files (such as an secondary or external drive) in order to help free up space.

(request received from Alf via Slack)

2 days ago

Sridhar

Problem

Recordings can easily accrue to take up many gigabytes over time. This is most impactful on mobile. If I lose my device, my recordings are lost with it.

Investigation

I've been hoping to keep the recordings on on-demand sync (available with most major cloud storage services), so that they live in the cloud and only take up local space when I play them.

On macOS, the Hedy app's storage lives in a container at

~/Library/Containers/bot.hedy.mobile/Data/Documents/

. The data (audio files) are mixed in with metadata (

hedy_sessions.db

and a couple of folders).

Redirecting the recordings to cloud storage is nontrivial. If I were to simply redirect the whole folder, the database risks corruption from locking and sync issues. Beyond Hedy's control, there are Apple's restrictions on what can be done in a container.

Requested solution

The ideal solution would:

maintain a clear separation
of user data (recordings) from application data (databases).
allow us to
choose our own folder
on our own filesystem (outside the container) to store our precious recordings.
make recordings
available cross-device
, including on mobile and Web.

User benefits include:

peace-of-mind:
recordings are visible and can be easily backed up
convenience:
access recordings from within Hedy on any device, and even directly if needed
consistency:
recordings can be stored in a subfolder of ~/Documents or wherever is helpful to the user

Risks to manage:

if the user changes the files in any way, that may break functionality within Hedy
if saved to another volume like external drive, network share or cloud storage, how can Hedy behave if it's not available (not mounted/connected, or the file needs to be downloaded on-demand)
there may be syncing/locking issues with external storage

Jacob

If possible, consider adding this feature to the mobile application as well.

Alf Marcussen

yes, this would be great as if you use it as often as I do, then you would start Filling Up your local (C-Drive) folder on your computer and that will start to become a problem in not very long ;-)