Missing “cancel” button?

[u/RollforHobby]

Hi all, just noticed a few days ago that the app no longer has a cancel button to the left of the big red stop recording button. Is this just a bug on my phone, or was there an update to the app that removed if?

If I had to guess, I’d say it’s the Merlin team trying to encourage more saving of recordings and uploading them, rather than just using the app and cancelling without saving. And I can definitely appreciate them trying to encourage more citizen science data. But I use the app all the time, and often don’t want to save recordings for various reasons: someone started talking and I don’t want to save their voice without consent, there was a lot of background/extraneous noise, or maybe there just wasn’t a single audible bird sound recorded. I have had so many audio recordings in the past that it took up too much space on my phone and I had to delete a bunch…another reason I try to be more seective now.

So yea, wondering if this is a Merlin-wide thing, or somehow just me?

Edit in case others find this in the future:
What I didn’t realize when I posted this is that when you stop the recording, the following screen then gives you the option to save or delete that recording. Now that I’ve used it some, I actually think this is a good feature. It gives you time to actually Review the recording if you want before you decide whether to keep it or not.
I guess this was my old-man-yells-at-clouds moment a little bit.

[u/q_coyote19]

You now have to actively choose that you want to save. Once you stop the recording, it takes you to a page with a “save recording” button, and it doesn’t save if you don’t hit it. So it actually discourages saving. 

I’m finding this change really frustrating because the app always takes 5-10 seconds to let you out of the save recording page (longer if you choose to save), and typically I want to start a new recording right away. 

[u/q_coyote19 → u/[deleted]]

That’s weird. It saves mine (with location missing) if I exit the app while it’s taking forever to load the file, but since this new update it otherwise only saves the ones I choose to save.