Automatic high quality recordings in the cloud

A method implemented by a system including a session host device, the method comprising:

• receiving, within an interactive, real time communication session, a plurality of streams including lossy audio signals from a plurality of session client devices;
• storing lossy audio tracks associated with the lossy audio signals in a first multitrack file, thereby creating a low quality recording of a conversation between a plurality of participants associated with the plurality of session client devices, the first multitrack file comprising a marker at a first temporal location within the first multitrack file;
• receiving a plurality of packets of including high quality audio signals from the plurality of session client devices, the high quality audio signals being either losslessly compressed or uncompressed;
• storing high quality audio tracks associated with the high quality audio signals in a second multitrack file;
• aligning the second multitrack file to the first multitrack file, thereby creating a high quality recording of the conversation;
• and
• inserting another marker in the second multitrack file at a temporal location within the second multitrack file that corresponds to the first temporal location.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions configured to instruct at least one processor to execute a method of automatically generating a second multitrack file from a first multitrack file, the method comprising:

• receiving, within an interactive, real time communication session, a plurality of streams including lossy audio signals from a plurality of session client devices;
• storing lossy audio tracks associated with the lossy audio signals in a first multitrack file, thereby creating a low quality recording of a conversation between a plurality of participants associated with the plurality of session client devices, the first multitrack file comprising a marker at a first temporal location within the first multitrack file;
• receiving a plurality of packets of including high quality audio signals from the plurality of session client devices, the high quality audio signals being either losslessly compressed or uncompressed;
• storing high quality audio tracks associated with the high quality audio signals in a second multitrack file;
• aligning the second multitrack file to the first multitrack file, thereby creating a high quality recording of the conversation;
• and
• inserting another marker in the second multitrack file at a temporal location within the second multitrack file that corresponds to the first temporal location.