Recordings & Live Audio

Recordings (/recordings) is the audio home — both the saved clips and the live stream.

The home has two views, switched on the sub-tab row: Clips (browse what your station already caught) and Live (listen along in real time).

Clips (/recordings?view=clips)

Clips is a flat, newest-first list of every detection that saved an audio clip. Each row carries the time, the species (with its banding-code avatar) and a confidence bar; play it with the ▶ button, download it, lock it, or delete it.

• Filter chips narrow the list to All, Best (high-confidence), Rare (a confident first-ever record) or Locked clips, and the search box finds a species by name. The chips and search are real links, so any view is bookmarkable.
• Now playing rides the page header while a clip plays and floats up into a compact bar when you scroll past it, with a live progress scrubber.
• Lock (🔒) protects a clip from the disk purge — the same lock you can set from Today; locked clips also show under the Locked filter.
• Select turns on checkboxes and a bulk bar so you can lock, download or delete a whole batch at once.

Live (/recordings?view=live)

Open the Live view to listen along with your station in real time — a per-source audio player and a scrolling spectrogram, with a live trickle of detections as they’re classified. The spectrogram is honest: it scrolls only while audio is arriving and shows a flat baseline otherwise, never a fake waveform. Today’s live-signal card links straight here, and you can preselect a microphone with /recordings?view=live&source=<id>.

The pre-spine /listen, /livestream and /live addresses still work — they permanently redirect to /recordings?view=live.

Species photos

The species Gallery now lives as the Photos view of the Species home (/species?view=photos) — a photo-card grid of every detected species, searchable and sortable. The standalone /gallery address still works.

Each card shows the species photo (cached from Wikipedia, with attribution), the common and scientific name, the detection count, and a confidence pill. Species without a cached photo fall back to an on-brand placeholder tinted in the species’ own color and stamped with its banding code — so the grid stays cohesive even before images load.

All bird photos are cached locally from Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA, and the attribution is shown on each image as the license requires.