Hello, it's been a while since I've posted but I thought I'd share my experience creating a player for the WAV recordings from my SDS100. (Screenshot attached so you can see the layout.)
I'm on a Mac, so my routine is to run Sentinel in a Windows VM, pull the recordings off the scanner, and drag that folder over to the Mac side. I wanted a clean, native way to browse and play those clips without jumping back into Windows, so I built a little app I'm calling UnidenPlayer.
It turns out the SDS100 tucks a lot of useful info into each recording, so instead of a wall of timestamped files, the app shows everything in a tidy list with the date and time, system, department, channel/talkgroup, and site. Click a recording and you get the full details plus playback, and there's even a little map that pins where the site is. Everything gets saved up to the cloud as I import it, and the whole library is filterable by date, agency, or favorites list, so it's easy to pull up everything from one department on a given day without worrying about losing anything to a bad SD card.
Where I'd like to take it next is AI voice transcription, so the recordings become searchable by what was actually said. I'm also planning to index both the audio and the transcripts so I can find similar calls by meaning, not just by keyword.
Since the SDS150 and SDS200 record the same way through Sentinel, this approach should work just as well for those files. It's a personal project and still a little rough, but it's been a fun way to get more out of my recordings. Happy to answer questions if anyone's curious.
I'm on a Mac, so my routine is to run Sentinel in a Windows VM, pull the recordings off the scanner, and drag that folder over to the Mac side. I wanted a clean, native way to browse and play those clips without jumping back into Windows, so I built a little app I'm calling UnidenPlayer.
It turns out the SDS100 tucks a lot of useful info into each recording, so instead of a wall of timestamped files, the app shows everything in a tidy list with the date and time, system, department, channel/talkgroup, and site. Click a recording and you get the full details plus playback, and there's even a little map that pins where the site is. Everything gets saved up to the cloud as I import it, and the whole library is filterable by date, agency, or favorites list, so it's easy to pull up everything from one department on a given day without worrying about losing anything to a bad SD card.
Where I'd like to take it next is AI voice transcription, so the recordings become searchable by what was actually said. I'm also planning to index both the audio and the transcripts so I can find similar calls by meaning, not just by keyword.
Since the SDS150 and SDS200 record the same way through Sentinel, this approach should work just as well for those files. It's a personal project and still a little rough, but it's been a fun way to get more out of my recordings. Happy to answer questions if anyone's curious.
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