v1.1.3 UX

[1.1.3] — 2026-09-09

Added

• A spectrogram in the detail window. Advanced now shows one under the
  waveform, on the same time axis, so every moment sits at the same place in
  both. The selection can be dragged in either of them — a spot you recognise
  by its formants no longer has to be found in the waveform first. A checkbox
  next to the range switches it off. The contrast comes from the recording
  itself rather than from fixed limits, so a quiet take is not simply black.
• Import existing recordings. Import … on the Sessions tab takes WAV
  files from anywhere on disk, analyses them and files them like any other
  session. Files are copied, never moved — the originals stay where they are.
  Each one keeps its own file name, so it shows up in the list under the name
  it had on disk; two files of the same name get a number, and a name that
  cannot be used at all falls back to the normal scheme. A later move puts
  them in the right subfolder without renaming them. You pick one type for the
  whole selection and can change it per recording afterwards. Each file keeps
  its own sample rate rather than being assumed to match the microphone, which
  would put pitch and formants off by exactly that ratio, and its modification
  date becomes the recording time, so it lands in the right month folder and
  the right place in the list. A file that cannot be read is reported by name
  at the end instead of ending the run.
• 8, 24 and 32-bit WAV files can be read, not just 16-bit. Files with
  floating-point samples still cannot — those have to be converted first, and
  the import now says so instead of failing obscurely.
• Recording types of your own. Settings → Options now lists every type
  and lets you add your own — a warm-up, a passage, whatever you keep coming
  back to. They show up in the type picker on the Live tab, in the
  right-click menu of the session list and in the detail window, and they can
  go into the file name like the built-in ones do. Each gets its short form
  once, when it is created, and keeps it: recordings made weeks ago carry that
  short form in their file name, so renaming would lose them. Deleting a type
  says how many recordings use it and what they will read as afterwards —
  their files and values are untouched, but the name behind the type is gone.
• Practice texts you can choose between. The field on the Live tab now
  sits under a dropdown. The built-in text stays where it was, and anything
  you type can be saved under a name of its own — a warm-up, a paragraph from
  a newspaper, a passage you keep coming back to. Save as … offers the name
  of the entry you are on, so revising one is two clicks; on the built-in text
  the field starts empty, and it keeps its own wording. The choice is
  remembered, so the same text is up again next time. Switching away from
  unsaved changes asks first.
• The pitch history reads out under the mouse. Moving the pointer across
  Last 30 seconds draws a dashed line at that height with the frequency
  next to it, so you can measure off the curve instead of estimating between
  the grid lines. The readout follows the line, so it stays put while the
  time window scrolls underneath.
• Both live charts can be cleared by hand. Right-clicking the pitch
  history offers Clear history, the spectrogram Clear spectrogram. Since
  neither is wiped on start any more, this is the way to start fresh — after
  the third exercise the beginning of the first was still in the picture.
  The charts' built-in pyqtgraph menu is gone with it: zoom and axis ranges
  are switched off here, so every entry in it was without effect.

Fixed

• A saved design survives a restart again. Colours, background image and
  card opacity were written to the configuration correctly, but never read
  back: the call that applies them ran before the configuration was loaded and
  therefore always saw the empty default, which reset everything to the
  preset. The startup sequence now loads first and applies afterwards, and
  restoring an empty design is a no-op rather than a reset.
• "Whole recording" in the detail window now does something visible. It
  only reset the numbers back to the stored ones, so with no analysed
  selection in play the button appeared dead. It now opens the selection up
  to the entire recording as well, which is what the numbers in the table
  refer to. While the waveform has not loaded — or the file is gone — the
  button stays disabled instead of pretending.

Changed

• The Month name part is now just the month. It used to contribute the
  year as well, so switching on Year and Month together produced
  2026_2026-03. It now contributes 03, and the year comes from the part
  that is named after it. Recordings named under the old scheme are still
  recognised as self-generated, so a later move sorts them into folders
  instead of leaving them behind. The month subfolder keeps the year —
  it also drives the counter reset, and without the year January 2027 would
  land in January 2026's folder.
• Starting the stream no longer wipes the spectrogram and the pitch
  history. Both carry on where the previous run left off, so stopping to
  clear your throat no longer costs you the last thirty seconds. The clock
  behind the history only advances while the stream is running, so the pause
  leaves no gap in the curve.