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Import an existing recording

Gistlist runs the same transcription and prompt pipeline against existing audio or video files.

Use any of these entry points:

  • Home -> import a recording from the New meeting card.
  • Quick Create -> Import recording from the sidebar.
  • Drag an audio or video file onto Home or Meetings.

Gistlist creates a new meeting from the file, transcribes it, and runs your prompts. The result lands in your meetings folder just like a recording you captured live.

Anything ffmpeg can decode, including .mp4, .mov, .m4v, .webm, .mkv, .avi, .mp3, .m4a, .wav, .aiff, .flac, and .ogg. Gistlist normalizes to WAV internally before transcribing.

Imported meetings end up with the same on-disk shape as recorded ones — see Where files live on disk. The selected file is copied under audio/ with its original basename, and a transcript and summary are produced from it.

If you imported a stereo recording with one speaker per channel, the transcript will reflect that. If both speakers are mixed into one channel, transcription still works but speaker labels may be less reliable.

The Meetings page has a search bar and a multi-select. You can bulk re-run prompts against any subset of your library — useful if you’ve edited a prompt and want to apply the new version to old meetings.