contact names? "Unknown"

[X4mro]

Hello
Why doesn't the app detect the names of people who called me or I called them?

[nicorac]

BCR-gui has two ways to get other party phone number and name:

• reading metadata .json file (created by BCR call recorder with the same name as the recording audio file)
• parsing the recording filename with a specific regular expression pattern that extracts name, number, timestamp and other fields (this option works with other call recorders than BCR)

To get help you need to give further info, like which recording app are you using and which filename pattern your recordings have...

[X4mro]

BRC module was installed from Magisk level. For phone calls I use Google Dialer version 161.0.721996463.
Files are saved on the SD card in .oga format

[nicorac]

Ok, so you're using BCR.
BCR has an option to create a "metadata" file for each recording. This file has the same filename as the recording but .json extension.
Please check that this option is active (it's available starting from BCR version 1.49).
Otherwise BCR-GUI can only try to extract informations from the filename, but you need to configure a working pattern for it to work properly.

Because of the BCR metadata feature above, which is much more powerful, a RegEx pattern for BCR is not bundled in BCR-GUI because... not needed.
Check BCR-GUI settings page for further informations...

[X4mro]

I reset BRC and it works, but not completely. Some numbers are still saved as , other numbers are shown normally. The metadata option is active.

[nicorac]

Were the <unknown> recordings created before you reset BCR (and turned on metadata creation)?
If so, then maybe they're still missing the metadata, because this file is created just after the call end.

You can now try this:

• open BCR-GUI settings
• click on Edit button next to Filename pattern
• click on Templates and select BCR (should already has been selected)
• click OK and OK again when you're asked to confirm file rescan