Craig

Craig is the open-source Discord bot that quietly powers a surprising number of podcasts, particularly in gaming, tabletop RPG, and creator communities where the show already lives in Discord. Adding Craig to a server gives you slash commands to start and stop recording — /join to begin, /stop to end — and the bot captures each speaker in the voice channel on a separate track.

Recordings can run up to 6 hours continuously and are available to download for 7 days afterwards. Outputs come in FLAC, MPEG-4 AAC, and other modern formats, so the files are ready for any DAW. Craig also makes its presence obvious by adding [RECORDING] to its nickname while active, which handles consent legibility naturally.

For a podcast that gathers in a Discord voice channel anyway, the convenience is enormous — no separate app, no scheduling a recording studio, just press a button when everyone's already there. The trade-offs are inherited from Discord.

Voice codec quality is decent but not lossless — Discord prioritises low-latency conversation over fidelity, and even the highest server bitrate caps below what a dedicated recording tool captures. The bot also requires server admin permissions to add, which adds friction for guest hosts. And there's no editing layer; raw multi-track files come out, and you do everything else in post.