Vinyl joins online meetings as a bot participant — it connects to your Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom call just like any other attendee. Because recording happens through the meeting platform's audio and video stream, the only control available is whether the bot joins the call at all. There's no way for an external participant to pause recording mid-session in these environments.

So once Vinyl has joined, it records continuously until it leaves the call.

If you need to stop recording at any point during an online meeting, you have two options:

You can remove the Vinyl bot from the participant list at any time. This stops the recording immediately. If you want Vinyl to resume later in the same meeting, you can reinvite it — but this will create a second, separate recording.

How to remove Vinyl from your meeting platform:

Note: Removing and reinviting Vinyl creates two separate recordings in your dashboard. There is currently no way to merge them into one.

If you know in advance that a meeting shouldn't be recorded, the cleanest approach is to turn recording off beforehand:

Because in-person meetings are recorded locally through the Vinyl mobile app rather than via a bot joining a third-party platform, you have full control over the recording at any time.

To pause an in-person recording:

Anything said while paused won't be captured or transcribed, and the recording won't restart on its own.

We know mid-meeting pause is something many customers want for online meetings. It's on our radar — if this is important to your workflow, let us know via the chat in the app.