Observed arrival · 2026-10-27
Taper, a live-show recorder built for tapers
Taper is an upcoming iPhone and Apple Watch app for recording live shows, marking songs, and preparing split tracks for the Internet Archive.
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- For
- Live-music tapers recording shows with an iPhone
- Worth noticing
- A second iPhone or iPad can mirror recording controls and song marks; the site says the master recording remains untouched.
Field notes
The site lays out a recording workflow that supports a phone microphone, an external interface, or a soundboard feed, with marks placed during a set and corrected later on a waveform. It also describes battery warnings and recovery behavior, including saving continuously to disk and stopping cleanly at 3% battery. These are presented as app capabilities, while the App Store link remains forthcoming.
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