The Timeline

The Audio Logging tab is where you spend almost all of your time in DayTracker. It shows you the entire day as a horizontal strip — midnight on the left, the next midnight on the right — with each kind of on-air event drawn in its own lane.

Picking a Day

The date list on the left side of the tab shows every day DayTracker has on disk. Today's row is at the top and shows the recording state in real time:

Pulsing dot — audio is arriving from AutoCast right now
Elapsed time — how far into the day the recording has progressed
Quality — the encoding bitrate setting for today's MP3

Click any older date in the list to load its timeline into the main view. Older days are read-only — you can scrub, listen, export selections, and copy airchecks from them, but the recording is finished and the markers are fixed.

The Lanes

Each horizontal lane holds one kind of event. The 76-pixel column on the left labels the lanes and stays put while the timeline scrolls and zooms. Lanes alternate background tint so adjacent rows are easy to tell apart.

From top to bottom:

Hours — Twenty-four vertical tick marks, one per hour boundary, labeled HOUR with the hour number.
Breaks — Horizontal bars covering each commercial break or stopset, from break_start to break_end.
Voicetracks — Pre-recorded talk between songs. A right-pointing triangle marks the IN, a left-pointing triangle marks the OUT, and a bar between them shows the duration.
Live mic — Same triangle-and-bar pattern as Voicetracks, but for live-mic open/close events from the studio console.
EAS — Emergency Alert System activations, drawn as bars from mic_start to mic_end on the EAS lane.
Notes — The catch-all lane for custom markers and automatic silence-detection events. Silence markers are drawn in orange so they stand out.

Scrubbing and Seeking

Click anywhere on the timeline to move the playhead to that spot. The playhead is a vertical line that spans every lane and a matching marker in the top ruler.

The same controls work whether you're playing or stopped:

Control	What it does
`Click`	Seek to that time on the timeline.
`Spacebar`	Play or stop.
`←` / `→`	Jump to the previous or next marker.
`Shift`+`←` / `→`	Back or forward ten seconds.
`⌘`+`←` / `→`	Jump to the previous or next hour boundary.

Zooming

Use a two-finger swipe on a trackpad, or the scroll wheel on a mouse, to zoom the timeline in and out. DayTracker centers the zoom on the playhead so the moment you're focused on stays under the cursor as you zoom in.

Zoomed all the way out, you see the entire 24-hour day at once. Zoomed all the way in, you can pick a single second to scrub to.

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Hovering your mouse over any marker shows that marker's label in the status bar — song title, voicetrack name, break number, or the custom note you wrote. No clicks required.

Filtering Lanes

The filter bar above the timeline lets you hide lanes you don't care about for a given task. For example, hide everything but Breaks while you're working on a stopset aircheck; hide everything but Voicetracks while you're reviewing talent performance. The recording itself isn't filtered — only what's drawn on screen.