diff --git a/client/src/app.rs b/client/src/app.rs
index cb29551..ed9f361 100644
--- a/client/src/app.rs
+++ b/client/src/app.rs
@@ -210,11 +210,11 @@ impl LesavkaClientApp {
                     let req = MonitorRequest { id: monitor_id, max_bitrate: 6_000 };
                     match cli.capture_video(Request::new(req)).await {
                         Ok(mut stream) => {
-                            debug!("🎥 cli video{monitor_id}: stream opened");
+                            debug!("🎥🏁 cli video{monitor_id}: stream opened");
                             while let Some(res) = stream.get_mut().message().await.transpose() {
                                 match res {
                                     Ok(pkt) => {
-                                        trace!("🎥 cli video{monitor_id}: got {} bytes", pkt.data.len());
+                                        trace!("🎥📥 cli video{monitor_id}: got {} bytes", pkt.data.len());
                                         if tx.send(pkt).is_err() {
                                             warn!("⚠️🎥 cli video{monitor_id}: GUI thread gone");
                                             break;
diff --git a/scripts/manual/audio-mic-fetch.sh b/scripts/manual/audio-mic-fetch.sh
index 8d4ae24..8b7e5eb 100644
--- a/scripts/manual/audio-mic-fetch.sh
+++ b/scripts/manual/audio-mic-fetch.sh
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# scripts/manual/audio-clip-fetch.sh
+# scripts/manual/audio-mic-fetch.sh
 
-# Pull & play the most recent 1 s AAC clip from lesavka‑server
-PI_HOST="nikto@192.168.42.253"   # adjust
+PI_HOST="nikto@192.168.42.253"   # adjust if needed
 REMOTE_DIR="/tmp"
-DEST="$(mktemp -u).aac"
+TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
+scp -q "${PI_HOST}:${REMOTE_DIR}/mic-*.aac" "$TMPDIR/" 2>/dev/null \
+  || { echo "❌  no mic clip files found yet"; exit 1; }
 
-scp "${PI_HOST}:${REMOTE_DIR}/ear-*.aac" "$DEST" 2>/dev/null \
-  || { echo "❌ no clip files yet"; exit 1; }
-
-LATEST=$(ls -1t ear-*.aac | head -n1)
-echo "🎧 playing ${LATEST} ..."
-gst-play-1.0 --quiet "${LATEST}"
+LATEST=$(ls -1t "$TMPDIR"/mic-*.aac | head -n1)
+echo "🎤 playing $(basename "$LATEST") ..."
+gst-play-1.0 --quiet "$LATEST"
diff --git a/server/src/main.rs b/server/src/main.rs
index cd3f046..5e6567f 100644
--- a/server/src/main.rs
+++ b/server/src/main.rs
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 // server/src/main.rs
 #![forbid(unsafe_code)]
 
-use std::{panic, backtrace::Backtrace, pin::Pin, sync::Arc, time::Duration};
+use std::{panic, backtrace::Backtrace, pin::Pin, sync::Arc};
 use std::sync::atomic::AtomicBool;
+use std::time::{Duration, SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};
 use anyhow::Context as _;
 use futures_util::{Stream, StreamExt};
 use tokio::{
@@ -84,6 +85,14 @@ async fn open_with_retry(path: &str) -> anyhow::Result<tokio::fs::File> {
     Err(anyhow::anyhow!("timeout waiting for {path}"))
 }
 
+fn next_minute() -> SystemTime {
+    let now = SystemTime::now()
+        .duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH).unwrap();
+    let secs = now.as_secs();
+    let next = (secs / 60 + 1) * 60;
+    UNIX_EPOCH + Duration::from_secs(next)
+}
+
 /*──────────────── Handler ───────────────────*/
 struct Handler {
     kb: Arc<Mutex<tokio::fs::File>>,
@@ -180,10 +189,32 @@ impl Relay for Handler {
         // channel just to satisfy the “stream Empty” return type
         let (tx, rx) = tokio::sync::mpsc::channel(1);
     
-        // forward packets from gRPC to AppSrc
+        // -------- 1 clip‑tap variables ----------------------------
+        use std::time::{SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH, Duration};
+        let mut capturing = Vec::with_capacity(200_000);   // ~1 s @128 kbit
+        let mut next_min_boundary = next_minute();
+
+        // -------- 2 forward packets + collect for clip‑tap --------
         tokio::spawn(async move {
             let mut inbound = req.into_inner();
             while let Some(pkt) = inbound.next().await.transpose()? {
+                /* ---- clip‑tap: accumulate raw AAC ----- */
+                capturing.extend_from_slice(&pkt.data);
+                if capturing.len() > 192_000 {          // keep at most ~1 s
+                    capturing.truncate(192_000);
+                }
+                if tracing::enabled!(tracing::Level::TRACE)
+                   && SystemTime::now() >= next_min_boundary {
+                    if !capturing.is_empty() {
+                        let ts = chrono::Local::now()
+                                  .format("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S").to_string();
+                        let path = format!("/tmp/mic-{ts}.aac");
+                        std::fs::write(&path, &capturing).ok();
+                        tracing::debug!("📼 wrote mic clip → {}", path);
+                    }
+                    capturing.clear();
+                    next_min_boundary = next_minute();
+                }
                 static CNT: std::sync::atomic::AtomicU64 =
                     std::sync::atomic::AtomicU64::new(0);
                 let n = CNT.fetch_add(1, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
@@ -240,7 +271,7 @@ impl Relay for Handler {
         Ok(Response::new(Box::pin(s)))
     }
 
-    /*────────────── USB-reset RPC ───────────*/
+    /*────────────── USB-reset RPC ────────────*/
     async fn reset_usb(
         &self,
         _req: Request<Empty>,