Annerather
Active member

Hi, up until the May update, I have been using the android app SongMeter Touch by Wildlife Accoustics to record birds in the field. It felt like the perfect app for me as it has the 3 second pre-recording function, shows the spectrogram of the recording and it can be easily shared into the Merlin app or WhatsApp. With this I can get very short and precise recordings that I don't have to crop at home later on. Merlin is missing the pre-recording function and BirdNet I find a bit cumbersome to use (and it is highly dependent on being online, which is not always available in the field). Unfortunately the SongMeter App stopped working on my phone and their support could not help. Somehow it seems to be using my phone functions instead of simply using microphone and speaker and I cannot get it changed in the settings (playback volume cannot be adjusted, it switches to call volume, but I still cannot hear the recording, also the recording is muted according to the spectrogram, so I guess they got something very wrong). Are there any android apps with similar functionality? Or does someone have a solution for fixing the app? I am helping myself with RecForge II currently, but it is missing the spectrogram and pre-recording view...