Sorry for going MIA and thanks for the reply Mike! Things came up and it took me sometime to get around to it- but it worked! Added benefit of being able to set how long the recording should be.
(although in the process it somehow jinxed my UMC404HD audio interface, while recording the audio sounded warped and crackling like on some bad buffer setting even thought the final recording was clean, and after that despite restarting, it no longer sends sound via headphones. Interface works with ipad still so it's not that or the headphones, but had to dust off my Steinberg UR22. Odd!)