Release Date: January 19, 2025
Version: 1.5.3
It was always the intention to make the number of tracks/sample rate/bit depth save between takes, so the last used one would be the default when creating a new take. This broke somewhere along the line, but I have it fixed now.
There have been a number of dependency and gradle components updated as well.
As always, please reach out if you have feature requests or find bugs!… Keep reading
Release Date: December 22, 2025
Version: 1.5.1
The maps have been a bit subpar, since I’ve mostly been using them on the web app. So here are a bunch of changes for the android version….
I started writing FieldLog after frustrations from how poorly I handled organization after a trip to England in April. Well, I’ve been using the Android app (and syncing online) since around the start of September, and I took it on a recent trip to Japan for two weeks in November. I generated about 600GB of /stuff/ a mix of video, audio, and photos.
Particularly when it comes to audio I generated 21 ambiances, and another dozen plus longer form takes.
As I get through processing things, I’ll upload them to my YouTube channel you can find at https://www.youtube.com/@houstinwehaveaproblem… Keep reading
Version 1.5.0 might not look different on the surface, but it feels dramatically better. I fixed the text input lag that made typing feel sluggish, and updated a ton of dependencies. It’s amazing how much the mobile ecosystem moves on even in a few months.
A lot of these problems I found while using the app out in the field on a Japan trip. So it was a lot of small problems that didn’t come up sitting at my desk.… Keep reading
This one isn’t really technical, and probably better described as rambling, so buyer be warned…
In 2016, as part of a work project, I traveled to China to demonstrate some technology I had developed. The project was a lot of fun for a younger engineer in his 20s, it allowed me to see a lot of different places while following the trade show booth. The China trip though, was my first visit to Asia, and became the first real trip I took a nice camera along on.… Keep reading
Greetings all!
Here are the things I worked on this week with FieldLog. Feature sets are getting there, but still in very much a testing phase. Bug reports and additional feature requests are still very much appreciated.
I am excited to announce that FieldLog now supports Progressive Web App (PWA) technology, bringing you a mobile app experience without needing to download anything from the App Store. While not a complete replacement for a native app, it gives you the most important features to you regardless of connection status!
This new feature is hot off the presses, so please reach out if you are having any issues!
A Progressive Web App is a web application that uses modern web technologies to deliver an app-like experience directly through your browser.… Keep reading
If you’ve spent any time field recording, you probably have had similar pain to me: Folders full of ZOOM0001.wav and TASCAM_2025-09-01.wav, with no clue what’s actually inside those files without clicking and listening. Months later, that recording of “birds at dawn” might as well be “busy airport.”
I got frustrated with this exact problem — so much so that I ended up writing FieldLog. I was kind of jealous of my Fuji camera’s GPS tagged photos with their full EXIF data.… Keep reading
When I started building FieldLog one of the earliest design decisions was awkwardly simple: what word should I use to describe each captured sound file?
In the world of audio, two terms compete for this role: take and recording. Both have long histories, and both are technically correct. But I went with take.
In audio culture, these words come from different lineages:
Recording grew out of archival, ethnographic, and broadcast traditions. It simply means captured sound, whether a dawn chorus, a radio interview, or dictation.
Field recording is as much about capturing the context as it is about capturing the sound. When you’re deep in a session—whether you’re documenting urban soundscapes, recording foley in the wild, or capturing that perfect bird call at dawn—the metadata you log can make the difference between a usable library and a digital graveyard of unnamed files.
Field Log offers three powerful ways to annotate your recordings: UCS tags, free tags, and notes. Each serves a different purpose, and understanding when and how to use them will transform how you organize, search, and recall your field recordings.… Keep reading
