The Interface

DayTracker's window is divided into a few clear areas. Once you know what each one is for, the whole thing is straightforward.

The top of the window shows the DayTracker logo, the app name, and the tagline "Your Station's Air Archive." The ? button in the top-right corner opens this help file.

The Two Tabs

Two tabs sit at the upper-right edge of the content area, just under the banner:

Audio Logging — The day timeline. Lanes of markers, scrub line, click-to-seek, the date list down the left side, and the VU strip on the right while recording.
Airchecks — Scheduled airchecks. Each card defines one recurring MP3 extract: name, schedule, daypart, and output folder.

The active tab appears in a lighter shade with charcoal text. Click a tab to switch between them.

The Date List

Down the left side of the Audio Logging tab is the list of days DayTracker has recorded. Today's row is at the top and shows live recording state — a small pulsing dot when audio is arriving, the elapsed time, and the current quality level.

Click any day in the list to load its timeline into the main area. The current day stays live; older days are read-only.

Selecting Multiple Days

You can select several past days at once, the same way Finder lets you select multiple files:

⌘+click a row to add or remove it from the selection without disturbing the day currently loaded on the timeline.
Shift+click a row to extend the selection from the most recently clicked row down (or up) to that one — every row in between gets selected.
Click and drag across rows to select them as your cursor passes over each.
Plain click on any row resets the multi-selection back to just that single day and reloads its timeline.

Today's row is never part of a multi-selection — a recording in progress can't be deleted, so it stays out of any group action. You can still click it normally to load the live timeline.

Right-Click Options

Right-click any row to see the actions available for it.

On a past day's row (single selection):

Show in Finder — opens a Finder window with that day's MP3 highlighted, so you can drag it elsewhere, look at neighbors in the folder, or check its size.
Open in Editor — opens the MP3 in whatever app your Mac uses by default for MP3 files (QuickTime Player out of the box; Audacity, Logic, or anything else if you've changed the default).
Delete — permanently removes that day's audio, marker CSV, manifest, and waveform cache after a confirmation alert. Can't be undone.

On a multi-selection of two or more past days, right-click any of the selected rows and the menu collapses to a single bulk action:

Delete N Recordings… — a single confirmation alert lists every day being removed; clicking Delete clears them all in one pass. Useful for cleaning out a span of older days without confirming each one separately.

On today's row:

Stop Recording… — ends the live capture after a confirmation alert. Ghosted when DayTracker isn't actively recording. This is the only right-click action on the live row.

The Timeline

The main area is the day timeline — 24 hours, midnight to midnight, laid out left to right. It is divided into horizontal lanes, one row per category of event:

Lane	What appears here
Hours	Vertical tick lines at every hour boundary. The faintest stripe along the top of the timeline.
Breaks	Horizontal bars showing the start, end, and length of each commercial break or stopset.
Voicetracks	Triangular IN and OUT markers framing each pre-recorded voicetrack. The bar between them spans the talk segment.
Live mic	Same shape as Voicetracks but for live-mic IN and OUT events from the studio.
EAS	Emergency Alert System activations.
Notes	Custom markers and automatic silence events. Silence is drawn in orange so it stands out at a glance.

A frozen 76-pixel column on the left labels each lane so the labels never scroll out of view as you zoom.

The Status Bar

The black bar at the very bottom of the window shows what DayTracker is doing. Hover your mouse over any control and the status bar shows a plain-English description of what that control does. When your mouse moves away, it returns to showing the current status.

Status Bar Elements

Orange speaker icon — DayTracker is healthy. Audio is arriving, markers are coming through.
Status text — Current activity. "Recording," the day being viewed, the position of the scrub line, or the name of the marker your mouse is over.
Connection dot — Green when AutoCast's TCP audio link is alive. Red when it isn't.
Gear icon — Opens Settings. Source mode, capture options, recording quality.

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If you're ever unsure what a button or control does, just hover your mouse over it and read the status bar. No guessing required.

The VU Strip

On the right edge of the Audio Logging tab, while you're viewing the live day, a narrow vertical VU meter shows the incoming audio level in real time. Two segments: left and right channel, peak-hold dots above the bars. The VU strip is hidden when you're viewing a past day, since there's no live audio to meter.

The Window Title

The window title shows the app name and version: DayTracker 0.1.116. When the trial is active, the title also shows how many days remain. After activation it shows the version only.