Presented herein are techniques for receiving media at a participant device for a conference session. The media may be transmitted to the participant device using a first transport mechanism. A command is received from a user of a participant device in a conference session to playback a portion of the conference session. A request is sent to the conference server to retransmit a recording of the portion of the conference session requested for playback. Data is received for the recording of the portion of the conference session transmitted from the conference server using a second transport mechanism, wherein the second transport mechanism is a higher reliability transport mechanism than the first transport mechanism.