Title Track

An Android recorder for music memos. Count yourself in at a tempo you choose, play, and if the third bar goes wrong hit Restart without looking. Takes are written as plain WAV files into a folder you pick, so they are on your phone's storage rather than locked inside the app.

Early-stage release — expect rough edges. Feedback and bug reports welcome via Issues.

While a take is being made

* Two buttons that matter — full-width, thumb-height Done and Restart. Done ends the take and saves it; Restart wipes it and counts you back in.
* Count-in — off, one bar or two, at a tempo you set, with an accented downbeat.
* A live waveform while you play — the last eight seconds as a scrolling peak envelope, drawn red near full scale so clipping is visible as it happens.
* Silent visual metronome — one dot per beat under the buttons, the lit one walking the bar, starting with the count-in. On by default because an audible click on a phone speaker ends up inside the take.
* A click through the take (optional, off) — for headphones, where there is nothing for the microphone to pick up.
* Listen before recording (optional, off) — draws what the microphone hears before you press Record, so mic distance is settled while it still costs nothing.
* A level test, not a guess — hold Record and play the loudest thing you will play; it reports the peak in dBFS and offers a gain that puts it at −9 dBFS.
* Recorded honestly — the least-processed microphone source the device offers, and unlike voice recorders no filtering of any kind.

Tuner

A third tab, in two faces. A needle, damped like a moving-coil meter so it settles rather than twitches while a peg is turning; and a strobe, two rings that come to a standstill when the string is in tune. There is no guitar/bass switch to set wrong: it names the nearest note across the whole range, with its octave. Equal temperament against A4 = 440 Hz: a guitar tuned on a pedal's sweetened preset will disagree by a few cents, and neither is wrong.

Your folder, your files

Pick any folder once — Music/Recording, an SD card, a synced folder; takes land there as 44.1 kHz mono WAV. Browse it in the app, make sub-folders, rename, move, star, share, delete, play back. The bpm you played to is written into the WAV itself as a LIST/INFO comment, so it survives being copied to a computer.

The player

Every take is drawn as a peak envelope in decibels — the same shape the record screen drew while you were playing. Touch anywhere on it to seek, drag to scrub, pinch to zoom in. WAV is read straight through; anything else the device can play is decoded and drawn just the same.

* Trim puts two handles on the waveform. A WAV cut to a WAV never decodes — the header is rebuilt and the selected bytes copied through, so what survives is exactly what was recorded.
* Level normalizes a quiet take in the file — Peak, which cannot distort, or Loudness, aiming at −14 dBFS RMS.
* Note attaches whatever the take needs saying about it: the chords, the words, what the idea was.

Both edits offer a choice when saving: overwrite the take, or save a lossless copy beside it as FLAC or WAV, tempo included.

Playback outlives the screen it started from — a mini player sits above the tabs wherever you are.

Languages

English and German, with a Language row in Settings. On Android 13 and up that is the per-app language in Android's own Settings.

Known limitations

* Recording stops if the app leaves the foreground — Android takes the microphone away from background apps. So keep your hands on the guitar.
* Mono only. Phone microphones are effectively mono.

Permissions

The microphone. No internet permission at all — the Support dialog's links open in your browser, which fetches in its own process.

License

GPL-3.0-only. The wordmark and the icon are CC BY 4.0; the name is not licensed, so a fork needs its own.

Is Title Track free to download?
Yes. The APK file linked from this page is free. The developer may offer in-app purchases once installed, but obtaining the installer itself costs nothing.

What Android version does Title Track require?
Android 4.1+ or newer. Installing on older devices may cause crashes or refuse to install.

Is Title Track safe to install?
We link to the exact APK published by F-Droid Open Source. We do not modify the file. Still, as with any sideloaded app, scan it with a reputable antivirus before opening it, and only grant permissions the app genuinely needs.

How do I update Title Track?
Install the newer version on top of the old one — Android will keep your data. If the signature differs, uninstall first (you may lose local progress).

Why is the app not installing?
Common causes: not enough storage, an older Android version than 4.1+, or a conflicting build already installed. Free up space, check your OS version, and uninstall any previous copy before retrying.

1. Tap the Download APK button above and save the file to your device.
2. Open your device Settings → Security (or Apps → Special access → Install unknown apps) and allow your file manager or browser to install unknown apps for this one file only.
3. Open the downloaded de.singular.recorder.apk file from your Downloads folder.
4. Tap Install and wait for Android to finish.
5. Open «Title Track» by F-Droid Open Source and grant only the permissions it actually needs.
6. Revoke the "unknown sources" permission once you are done installing.

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