Recovered takes

The web app doesn’t record audio, so it has no takes to recover: this is on the Mac, Windows, the iPad, the iPhone and Android.

How a take is kept while it records

While a take records, its sound goes into a file beside the song, in the Recordings folder next to the song’s file, a little at a time, about every half second. When you stop, the take becomes a clip as usual (Audio tracks), and the file is removed once the song has been saved with the take, or when you undo the take.

If Stab stops before that, the file stays, and it holds everything recorded up to the last half second or so.

When the song opens again

Open the song and its interrupted takes come back by themselves:

• Each is placed where it began, as a clip on the audio track it was recorded on. If that track is gone, they go on a new audio track called Recovered.
• They’re named Recovered Take 1, Recovered Take 2…
• For a moment, a note in the pane says how many came back, such as “Recovered 1 take recorded when Stab last stopped”.
• A take recorded at a practice speed is brought back to the song’s tempo, as it would have been had you stopped normally.

Bringing them back is one undo step, Recover Takes. Undo it if you don’t want them; the song is then as it was saved. A fragment shorter than a twentieth of a second isn’t brought back.

The recovered takes are then kept like any others: in the Takes folder beside your songs, or in the song, as Keep new takes says (Where takes are kept).

Which songs are covered

Takes are kept this way for the songs in your library, and for songs opened from a file. A song you’ve joined in Play Together lives on the host’s device, so a take recorded into it isn’t kept on yours.

For a song that won’t open at all, or one that opens repaired, see Damaged songs.