diff --git a/scripts/install_services.sh b/scripts/install_services.sh
index 6795024..ca896da 100755
--- a/scripts/install_services.sh
+++ b/scripts/install_services.sh
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ create_necessary_dirs() {
   [ -d ${EXTRACTED}/By_Date ] || sudo -u ${USER} mkdir -p ${EXTRACTED}/By_Date
   [ -d ${EXTRACTED}/Charts ] || sudo -u ${USER} mkdir -p ${EXTRACTED}/Charts
   [ -d ${PROCESSED} ] || sudo -u ${USER} mkdir -p ${PROCESSED}
+  [ -d $RECS_DIR/StreamData ] || sudo -u ${USER} mkdir -p $RECS_DIR/StreamData
+  [ -L ${EXTRACTED}/spectrogram.png ] || sudo -u ${USER} ln -sf ${RECS_DIR}/StreamData/spectrogram.png ${EXTRACTED}/spectrogram.png
 
   sudo -u ${USER} ln -fs $my_dir/exclude_species_list.txt $my_dir/scripts
   sudo -u ${USER} ln -fs $my_dir/include_species_list.txt $my_dir/scripts
diff --git a/scripts/update_birdnet_snippets.sh b/scripts/update_birdnet_snippets.sh
index 4d53343..5ebb0b0 100755
--- a/scripts/update_birdnet_snippets.sh
+++ b/scripts/update_birdnet_snippets.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ trap 'exit 1' SIGINT SIGHUP
 USER=$(awk -F: '/1000/ {print $1}' /etc/passwd)
 HOME=$(awk -F: '/1000/ {print $6}' /etc/passwd)
 my_dir=$HOME/BirdNET-Pi/scripts
+source /etc/birdnet/birdnet.conf
 source "$my_dir/install_helpers.sh"
 
 # Sets proper permissions and ownership
@@ -59,6 +60,9 @@ SRC="APPRISE_NOTIFICATION_BODY='(.*)'$"
 DST='APPRISE_NOTIFICATION_BODY="\1"'
 sed -i -E "s/$SRC/$DST/" /etc/birdnet/birdnet.conf
 
+[ -d $RECS_DIR/StreamData ] || sudo_with_user mkdir -p $RECS_DIR/StreamData
+[ -L ${EXTRACTED}/spectrogram.png ] || sudo_with_user ln -sf ${RECS_DIR}/StreamData/spectrogram.png ${EXTRACTED}/spectrogram.png
+
 if ! which inotifywait &>/dev/null;then
   ensure_apt_updated
   apt-get -y install inotify-tools