After denying permission two times, the app is crashing while opening till we allow the permission from settings.

Ref Video:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/38963667/147447509-89639c1c-8f97-403f-874c-991dcd30ddbd.mp4

Hi,

I've added a widget for quick recording starting. I've created it based on other Simple apps, so there is an icon configuration. The widget works in a way that after tapping, it starts the app with recording turned on. If there is already recording going on, it doesn't stop the current recording.

I tried to do this without opening an app, but I got an exception on setting audio source. I found a workaround which was opening the MainActivity, starting service and closing the app, but I wasn't able to do this without initial render and I decided to not go this way, since it wasn't looking nice with a blink of an app on the screen. However, if you'd prefer this way, I can modify the code.

I have tried the new app and I have seen that the files are recorded with the .mp3 extension but MediaInfo says that they are in AAC format. I also notice that the sound is a bit metallic, is there any noise reduction applied to the recordings? Thanks for this new app.

If there's no metadata that matches current locale (eg. ro-RO), F-Droid tries to use en-US but if that's not available either it will show first metadata language code found eg. Arabic

Hi,

I've added an option for starting recording after launching the app.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/85929121/137784459-06503709-1e0a-4678-8770-65e6678a21c0.mp4

Fdroid has this app listed as an Apache License 2.0 https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.voicerecorder/

Here on github it's listed as a GPLv3 License. The Apache 2.0 License is compatible with the GPLv3, but I'm not sure it works the other way.

I'm assuming one of these are incorrect, so I thought I would point it out. One difference is Apache allows sublicensing, but the GPLv3 doesn't. So, it could make a difference on how the code is used.

Environment

Phone: Moto G7 Power OS: LineageOS 16.0, 19.1 (LOS v. 16.0 is equivalent to stock Android 9, and v. 19.1 is equivalent to stock A12)

Reproduction steps

1. Kill the app. Make sure it is not running in the foreground or recently backgrounded.
2. Start the recording from the widget
3. Hit the power button to lock the phone
4. Unlock the phone
5. Stop the recording using the widget (a toast appears saying "recording saved successfully")
6. Open the app, check the recordings list and see that it is empty
7. Tap the empty recordings list to make the recordings reappear
8. Notice the latest recording is only 2 seconds long
9. Play the latest recording to confirm it is only 2 sec long

see comment below for alternate reproduction steps (background process timeout)

How I use the app

I make recordings almost every day, and have been doing so with Simple VR for a while now. Usually my recordings are 20 to 30 min but I have gone much longer. I usually use the widget to quickly start capturing audio, and don't use my phone until I'm done. When finished, I unlock my phone, then I press the widget again to stop the recording. I rarely go back and check my recordings, so I assumed my recordings were successful since the widget stays orange until I finish the recording and press the widget again, then it turns back to white.

The bug

I believe there is a bug that stops the recording when the app goes to the background, when the display goes to sleep, or I hit the lock button on the side. I can tell because I just checked my recordings and saw that for the last month and a half, they are all very short, on average less than a minute and a half, some only a few seconds, and some of the files are empty! As I said before, I usually record for 20 mins or much longer. Sure enough, I listened to some of these short recordings and found that the recordings were cut off. I lost about 90 days of recordings! :(

Notable observations

This would also imply that the widget is misleading me into thinking my recorder was recording the whole time since it is still orange when I go to tap it again and end the recording. Usually I have to unlock my phone first, then I see the widget is still orange.

My list of recording files shows that this problem began on July 1, because I have long-length recordings up to June 30th.

Last week I updated my phone's OS from Lineage 16.0 to 19.1, so I had to reinstall the app. However, I just discovered this problem an hour ago so it must be related to the app, or at least not my OS.

Hi, as the title I notice this issue yesterady. Step to reproduce: 1 - Start recording 2 - Pause the recording 3 - Close the recording

If you try instead to pause - unpause - stop recording then it stops and save the file properly. Well, nothing crititcal, just to inform.

crDroid 7.5 (Android 11 based)

Hello @SimpleMobileTools I believe us should mirror our repos to Codeberg because:

1. Codeberg is libre, free, open-source, privacy-friendly, non-profit
2. GitHub is privacy-invasive, proprietary
3. People on Codeberg like me can contribute to the project
4. GitHub can take down your repos

Here are some sources for you:

1. https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub
2. https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech/issues/33
3. https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/discussions/1894
4. cadence.moe/blog/2022-07-03-git-forge-opinions-github-gitlab-gitea-sourcehut
5. https://github.com/andersju/webbkoll/issues/35
6. https://docs.codeberg.org/advanced/migrating-repos

FAQ

1. Q: - GitHub Actions -- this is a huge time saver for me - Forcing all contributors to modify their current setup and move to another hosting -- we may just lose contributors in the end

   A: As I said, we only just mirror. The repo will be available and contributable on both sites.

2. Q: - Transferring issues -- is this possible? Issues here represent a technical knowledge base we can't live without - Transferring wiki and all edit history -- possible?

   A: Yes, it is possible. a. Example for issues:

• https://github.com/andersju/webbkoll/issues/35
• https://codeberg.org/dataskydd.net/webbkoll/issues/35
• https://github.com/andersju/webbkoll/issues/33
• https://codeberg.org/dataskydd.net/webbkoll/issues/33
• https://github.com/zyachel/quetre/issues/7
• https://codeberg.org/zyachel/quetre/issues/7

b. Example for commits:

• https://codeberg.org/dataskydd.net/webbkoll/commit/6ddfbc6c71ab92f754252dd4904cf49fb19672a6
• https://github.com/andersju/webbkoll/commit/6ddfbc6c71ab92f754252dd4904cf49fb19672a6

c. Example for wiki:

• https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/wiki/Home/_history?page=2
• https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/wiki/Home?action=_revision

3. Q: Despite having mirror/s, the project will still continue to be operated from GitHub for development, so having yet another mirror doesn't solve anything.

   A: You can create issues, contribute, view the repos on there without going to GitHub! Example:

• https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
• https://codeberg.org/LibRedirect/libredirect
• https://github.com/zyachel/quetre
• https://codeberg.org/zyachel/quetre

4. Q: How does Codeberg mirror comments from GitHub?

   A: It uses Access Token.

5. Q: My repos are very bandwidth-intensive projects, and I have my doubts as to whether the owner(s) of Codeberg would be prepared for such a massive bandwidth rate increase. I've also had individual projects be disabled on small sites before due to taking too much bandwidth.

   A: Oh.. I think you should directly ask https://docs.codeberg.org/contact/ about if they are ready for massive bandwidth rate increase.

Fixed some issues imported from Weblate.

@tibbi Is it Weblate that's screwing with the formatting of the long descriptions, or is it caused by the translator(s) there? Newlines are gone in all those Weblate imports, so I don't know what it looks like in the Store. I'm guessing it's all flat text now.

Hello there, anyone also having sound problems with their Android or even Pixel 5 with the recording app? It records cracks and does not sound clear. Reinstallation did not solve it. The onboard Google Recorder app sounds just fine ;) So it's not Microphone.

Kind regards, Tobias

Translations update from Hosted Weblate for Simple Mobile Tools/Simple Voice Recorder.

It also includes following components:

• Simple Mobile Tools/Simple Voice Recorder metadata

Current translation status:

For simple voice recordings, can't there be some more byte-saving formats? It's possible to squeeze a lot of monotonous talking to a pretty small file. I wish this app could do that.

44100 sample rate should be removed from constants and at least set by if statement which checks for chosen encoder/format.

Current implementation, if set to OPUS, saves recording in 48000 causing playback to be 4% faster than it should be. It is very audible and also noticeable in recording length.

The solution is to set recording sample rate strictly to 48000 if user choose OPUS, or to provide resampling (https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/audio/sampling-audio).

I will check if I will be able to do first solution myself and create pull request for it.

Android 11 F-Droid voicerecorder 5.10.2

The default location of Internal>Music>Record worked great. I changed it to Internal>Record, it asked me to confirm "use this folder" via android.settings Files, which I did and selected Allow.
Interestingly the initial folder choice dialogue from VoiceRecorder shows 0 items when there are hundreds.

When the app is killed/freshly started the Player tab is empty. Some time later (10+ minutes) it will correctly populate. Recording works great. New recordings do not appear in Playback until I force stop VoiceRecorder. Renaming has a similar effect - the change is not reflected until Selecting anything shows a toast of "Error: java.io.IOException: setDataSource failed.: status=0x80000000" and playback does not work at all. The duration is correct on the scrubber but nothing happens trying to play back and scrubbing does not move. Logat has

10-15 19:29:13.512 29942 29942 V MediaPlayer: resetDrmState:  mDrmInfo=null mDrmProvisioningThread=null mPrepareDrmInProgress=false mActiveDrmScheme=false
10-15 19:29:13.512 29942 29942 V MediaPlayer: cleanDrmObj: mDrmObj=null mDrmSessionId=null
10-15 19:29:13.520 32271  1549 W ActivityManager: Permission Denial: opening provider com.android.externalstorage.ExternalStorageProvider from (null) (pid=32153, uid=1013) requires that you obtain access using ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT or related APIs
10-15 19:29:13.521 32153 22200 D mediaserver: openContentUri(content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/tree/primary%3ARecord/document/primary%3ARecord%2F2022_10_04_12_25_52.m4a) caught exception -129
10-15 19:29:13.521 32153 22200 E MediaPlayerService: Couldn't open fd for content://com.android.externalstorage.documents/tree/primary%3ARecord/document/primary%3ARecord%2F2022_10_04_12_25_52.m4a
10-15 19:29:13.521 29942 29942 E MediaPlayerNative: Unable to create media player

Deleting items does not work - It shows a prompt to "Allow Voice Recorder to delete this audio file?" and allowing it makes it disappear from the list, but closing and re-opening shows it returned and never deleted.
Logcat has

10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: java.io.FileNotFoundException: No item at content://media/external/audio/media/235467876
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider.ensureThumbnail(MediaProvider.java:5908)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider.openTypedAssetFileCommon(MediaProvider.java:5849)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider.openTypedAssetFile(MediaProvider.java:5836)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.content.ContentProvider$Transport.openTypedAssetFile(ContentProvider.java:553)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.content.ContentResolver.openTypedAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1983)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.content.ContentResolver.openTypedAssetFile(ContentResolver.java:1888)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.content.ContentResolver.lambda$loadThumbnail$0(ContentResolver.java:4040)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.content.-$$Lambda$ContentResolver$7ILY1SWNxC2xhk-fQUG6tAXW9Ik.call(Unknown Source:10)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.graphics.ImageDecoder$CallableSource.createImageDecoder(ImageDecoder.java:558)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.graphics.ImageDecoder.decodeBitmapImpl(ImageDecoder.java:1862)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.graphics.ImageDecoder.decodeBitmap(ImageDecoder.java:1855)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.content.ContentResolver.loadThumbnail(ContentResolver.java:4039)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.content.ContentResolver.loadThumbnail(ContentResolver.java:4023)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at com.android.providers.media.PermissionActivity$Description.<init>(PermissionActivity.java:694)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at com.android.providers.media.PermissionActivity$DescriptionTask.doInBackground(PermissionActivity.java:531)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at com.android.providers.media.PermissionActivity$DescriptionTask.doInBackground(PermissionActivity.java:458)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.os.AsyncTask$3.call(AsyncTask.java:394)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.os.AsyncTask$SerialExecutor$1.run(AsyncTask.java:305)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
10-15 20:07:56.261  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:923)
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W ContentResolver: Failed to get type for: content://media/external/audio/media/235467876 (No item at content://media/external/audio/media/235467876)
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: java.lang.NullPointerException
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at java.util.Objects.requireNonNull(Objects.java:220)
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.content.ContentResolver.getTypeInfo(ContentResolver.java:3858)
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at com.android.providers.media.PermissionActivity$Description.<init>(PermissionActivity.java:711)
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at com.android.providers.media.PermissionActivity$DescriptionTask.doInBackground(PermissionActivity.java:531)
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at com.android.providers.media.PermissionActivity$DescriptionTask.doInBackground(PermissionActivity.java:458)
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.os.AsyncTask$3.call(AsyncTask.java:394)
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at android.os.AsyncTask$SerialExecutor$1.run(AsyncTask.java:305)
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
10-15 20:07:56.263  1636 25283 W MediaProvider: 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:923)
10-15 20:07:57.072  1636 25283 D MediaProvider: User allowed grant for [content://media/external/audio/media/235467876]
10-15 20:07:57.074  1636 25283 I MediaProvider: Granted permission to 1 items on external to com.simplemobiletools.voicerecorder

Title is self-explanatory, but this would be useful as it's even more discrete than the included widget, and is quicker to activate from any application rather than having to go to the homescreen. I attempted to add the feature myself, but my inexperience with Android app development and programming as a whole didn't allow me to (couldn't understand how to toggle recording in code).