Zoom Toolkit is a bilingual desktop application designed to manage audio recordings from Zoom field recorders. It streamlines the process of extracting files from SD cards, removing accidental short clips, and organizing recordings into date-based folders. The tool supports both Gregorian and Hijri calendars and offers a dark "Field Console" interface for optimal usability.
Key Features:
Audio Extraction: Efficiently pulls audio files (e.g., WAV, MP3) from nested folder structures on SD cards into a single directory.
Short Clip Removal: Automatically identifies and moves exceptionally short clips to a dedicated folder based on a configurable duration threshold.
Date-Based Organization: Sorts recordings into cleanly organized folders based on date.
Bilingual Support: Provides full English and Arabic UI, including right-to-left (RTL) layout for Arabic users.
Safe Operations: Features dry-run previews, a plan summary before sorting, and an automatic per-run log saved to the output folder.
Drag-and-Drop Functionality: Supports seamless drag-and-drop of folders for easy file management.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for field researchers, journalists, linguists, and audio professionals who work with Zoom field recorders. By automating time-consuming tasks like extraction, cleaning, and organization, Zoom Toolkit enables users to focus on their core work while ensuring data integrity and efficient workflow management. Its bilingual support caters to a global audience, particularly those working in Arabic-speaking regions.
Zoom Toolkit can be installed via winget for easy setup on Windows systems.
README
Zoom Toolkit
A bilingual (English / العربية) desktop app for managing audio recordings pulled off Zoom field recorders. It extracts files from SD-card folder structures, cleans out accidental short clips, and organizes recordings into date-based folders — with a dark "Field Console" interface and a live level-meter progress indicator.
Download
Grab the latest Windows build from the Releases page — download Zoom Toolkit.exe and run it (no install needed).
> On first launch Windows may show a "Windows protected your PC" SmartScreen notice because the app isn't code-signed. Click More info → Run anyway. Some antivirus tools may also flag PyInstaller executables; this is a known false positive.
Features
Audio Extractor — pulls .wav/.mp3 (and more) out of nested sub-folders (e.g. Zoom FOLDER01 SD-card layouts) into one directory, renaming to avoid overwrites, with optional auto-sort by date.
Audio Cleaner — moves exceptionally short clips (misclicks) into a short_audio/ folder, with a configurable duration threshold.
Auto-Sorter — organizes a messy folder of recordings into clean date-based sub-folders.
Bilingual + RTL — full English and Arabic UI, with Gregorian and Hijri calendar support.
Safe by design — dry-run preview, a plan summary before sorting, stop/cancel mid-run, and an automatic per-run log saved to the output folder.
Quality of life — drag-and-drop folders, remembered settings, configurable file types, recursive scanning, and an "open output folder" shortcut.