diff --git a/apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/api.rs b/apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/api.rs
index 96a7f2bb16..1e225041a3 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/api.rs
+++ b/apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/api.rs
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ pub async fn upload_multipart_presign_part(
     video_id: &str,
     upload_id: &str,
     part_number: u32,
-    md5_sum: &str,
 ) -> Result<String, AuthedApiError> {
     #[derive(Deserialize)]
     #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
@@ -68,7 +67,6 @@ pub async fn upload_multipart_presign_part(
                     "videoId": video_id,
                     "uploadId": upload_id,
                     "partNumber": part_number,
-                    "md5Sum": md5_sum
                 }))
         })
         .await
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/upload.rs b/apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/upload.rs
index 06e37f0822..4f4527615b 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/upload.rs
+++ b/apps/desktop/src-tauri/src/upload.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use cap_project::{RecordingMeta, S3UploadMeta, UploadMeta};
 use cap_utils::spawn_actor;
 use ffmpeg::ffi::AV_TIME_BASE;
 use flume::Receiver;
-use futures::{Stream, StreamExt, TryStreamExt, stream};
+use futures::{Stream, StreamExt, TryStreamExt, future::join, stream};
 use image::{ImageReader, codecs::jpeg::JpegEncoder};
 use reqwest::StatusCode;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
@@ -629,17 +629,32 @@ fn multipart_uploader(
     try_stream! {
         let mut stream = pin!(stream);
         let mut prev_part_number = None;
+        let mut expected_part_number = 1u32;
+
+        loop {
+            let (Some(item), presigned_url) = join(
+                stream.next(),
+                // We generate the presigned URL ahead of time for the part we expect to come next.
+                // If it's not the chunk that actually comes next we just throw it out.
+                // This means if the filesystem takes a while for the recording to reach previous total + CHUNK_SIZE, which is the common case, we aren't just doing nothing.
+                api::upload_multipart_presign_part(&app, &video_id, &upload_id, expected_part_number)
+              ).await else {
+                break;
+            };
+            let mut presigned_url = presigned_url?;
+
 
-        while let Some(item) = stream.next().await {
             let Chunk { total_size, part_number, chunk } = item.map_err(|err| format!("uploader/part/{:?}/fs: {err:?}", prev_part_number.map(|p| p + 1)))?;
             trace!("Uploading chunk {part_number} ({} bytes) for video {video_id:?}", chunk.len());
             prev_part_number = Some(part_number);
             let md5_sum = base64::encode(md5::compute(&chunk).0);
             let size = chunk.len();
 
-            let presigned_url =
-                api::upload_multipart_presign_part(&app, &video_id, &upload_id, part_number, &md5_sum)
-                    .await?;
+            // We prefetched for the wrong chunk. Let's try again.
+            if expected_part_number != part_number {
+                presigned_url = api::upload_multipart_presign_part(&app, &video_id, &upload_id, part_number)
+                    .await?
+            }
 
             trace!("Uploading part {part_number}");
 
@@ -671,6 +686,8 @@ fn multipart_uploader(
                 size,
                 total_size
             };
+
+            expected_part_number = part_number + 1;
         }
 
         debug!("Completed multipart upload for {video_id:?} in {:?}", start.elapsed());
diff --git a/apps/web/app/api/upload/[...route]/multipart.ts b/apps/web/app/api/upload/[...route]/multipart.ts
index 45194169d8..5045ae40ec 100644
--- a/apps/web/app/api/upload/[...route]/multipart.ts
+++ b/apps/web/app/api/upload/[...route]/multipart.ts
@@ -141,18 +141,19 @@ app.post(
 			.object({
 				uploadId: z.string(),
 				partNumber: z.number(),
-				md5Sum: z.string(),
 			})
 			.and(
 				z.union([
 					z.object({ videoId: z.string() }),
 					// deprecated
 					z.object({ fileKey: z.string() }),
+					// deprecated
+					// z.object({ md5Sum: z.string() }),
 				]),
 			),
 	),
 	async (c) => {
-		const { uploadId, partNumber, md5Sum, ...body } = c.req.valid("json");
+		const { uploadId, partNumber, ...body } = c.req.valid("json");
 		const user = c.get("user");
 
 		const fileKey = parseVideoIdOrFileKey(user.id, {
@@ -174,7 +175,6 @@ app.post(
 							fileKey,
 							uploadId,
 							partNumber,
-							{ ContentMD5: md5Sum },
 						);
 
 					return presignedUrl;