Thanks, sixwheeledbeast. I confused a garage page and a package page, I thought they were the same thing. I have requested to become a maintainer and hopefully will get to the point of being able to upload updates.

For the impatient ones, here is a first taster, with three new features:
1) Orecchiette now remembers the selected audio source on exit and selects the same source on the next start.
2) A new tickbox in Preferences allows it to start recording immediately on start-up, from the last selected source (see #1).
3) The file name has a flexible format, more-or-less following the format of the Unix "date" command. So you can use a string like e.g. %Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S.

The app has a built-in documentation feature (well done, Copernicus!) which has been updated accordingly. It might be a bit verbose, sorry about that. I will try to make it more concise.

Dowload the attached zip and try it out. It contains just the compiled binary. Warning: it was built on the phone with CSSU and, as peterleinchen noticed over here, your libstdc++ may not be compatible. That should be sorted out when a regular update through extras becomes available.