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In Development

Vinyl & cassette recording

Recording from vinyl or cassette only really becomes useful once the result stops feeling like an orphaned audio file on your desktop. Kanora's version of the feature is less about the red button and more about what happens immediately after it.

What This Means

Recording sessions that start from a live source and end as tagged library entries, with enough metadata and import structure to make them feel native once captured.

In the app

What it looks like today.

Captures of the current build. Status badges above still apply — a screenshot shows what runs, not what is finished.

The Recording screen on the Mac: input device, AirPlay output, recording settings and save location pickers, a VU meter and input level bar, and Start Recording and Start Monitoring buttons.
macOSRecording

What you can do

Monitor the source, make the recording, add details while they are fresh, and import the take as a library item.

The flow is intended for tape transfers, vinyl captures, radio recordings, and other sources that do not arrive with metadata attached.

Why it matters

A lot of personal audio history lives outside standard catalogue data. It might be a cassette someone made for you, a difficult-to-find pressing, or a transfer you only trust yourself to make. If software is serious about ownership, it needs to take that material seriously too.

The interesting part is not just preservation, but continuity. A recording should become part of the library you already use, not a side project that lives in a different app with different assumptions.

Status

Kanora already has the beginnings of that pipeline in view, especially around live monitoring, recording state, and post-take metadata. The next step is smoothing the handoff so recordings feel fully at home once they land, not merely captured.