Download Riverside separate tracks for your editor

1. Open the studio, select the project and click Recordings in the top menu, then scroll to the recording.
2. Under Tracks, check each participant's status. A track goes through Recording, Uploading and Processing before it is Ready to download.
3. Next to each Ready track, click Download and choose Raw video, Aligned video, Raw audio or Compressed audio. Repeat for every participant.
4. If a guest left before the upload finished, send them riverside.com/upload and wait, or fall back to their lower-quality cloud recording.
5. Riverside's Dropbox integration is no longer available, so the files reach the editor some other way. If a guest left early, Riverside starts processing their partial track 15 minutes after the call, and the tile shows how much of it exists.

Get the raw WAV of each participant from yesterday's episode in The Product Hour for my editor. If anyone's track is still uploading, tell me who, and don't send partial files.

1. 01

   Find the episode you mean

   list_recordings for the studio with since set to the day before gives yesterday's takes. When there are two takes that day, the agent picks the longer one and says so, or asks if they are close in length.

2. 02

   Check every track is Ready

   get_recording shows each participant's tracks. If any is still uploading or processing, the agent stops and names the person, because sending a partial file means a second round with the editor later.

3. 03

   Choose the format the editor can line up

   Raw audio is the default. For video edits the agent asks for aligned video when guests joined late or shared a screen, so every file starts at 00:00 in the editor's timeline.

4. 04

   Fetch only who is needed

   download_tracks with a participants filter skips people you exclude, such as a producer who only listened. Tracks without a link are listed as missing, never silently left out.

5. 05

   Repeat on a schedule without duplicates

   Run weekly, the agent sets since to the date of the previous run, so recordings already handed over are not fetched again. A recording still uploading is retried on the next run instead of reported as done.

Episode 41: Launch week (recorded Thu 8 Oct, 56 min)
Host: raw audio WAV, ready
Guest: raw audio WAV, ready
Screen share: skipped (not requested)
2 download links below. Nothing is still uploading.
Last week's Founders Q&A #17: guest track still Uploading; send them riverside.com/upload.

• Riverside counts separate track downloads against a monthly download-hours allowance per plan; once the account has recorded past that allowance, the option to download individual tracks disappears, and unused hours do not roll over.
• Riverside counts download hours by recording length, not by the number of participants: a one-hour session with three people uses one hour.
• Riverside adds alignment padding only to tracks recorded in a computer browser; tracks from the Riverside mobile app and Mac app come as raw tracks only.
• A raw aligned audio WAV exists in Riverside only when the studio is set to record audio only.
• Riverside compresses its Compressed audio MP3 to 64 kb/s at the studio's sample rate, about one tenth of the raw WAV size.

Every tool here only reads, so it can run weekly from n8n, Make, Zapier or cron without waiting for your OK.

Sources: Riverside Help: Download high-quality tracks · Riverside Help: About download hours · Riverside Help: Recordings status guide · Riverside Help: About high-quality tracks · Riverside Help: Can I export my recordings directly to Dropbox?

curl https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/riverside/download_tracks \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"recording_id":"rec_71d3ab","file_type":"raw_audio"}'

{
  "recording_id": "rec_71d3ab",
  "file_type": "raw_audio",
  "files": [
    {
      "participant": "Host",
      "url": "https://downloads.example.com/rec_71d3ab/host.wav",
      "status": "ready"
    },
    {
      "participant": "Guest",
      "url": "https://downloads.example.com/rec_71d3ab/guest.wav",
      "status": "ready"
    }
  ]
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the tool is riverside_download_tracks. Example data.

• Schedule a Riverside recording session and invite the guest
• Reschedule or cancel a Riverside recording session
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