Digital Recording Equipment (Proprietary Files)

[Webb Sprague]

I have a small olympus, and you can drag the wav files out of their
(lame) proprietary application into any folder.  From the new folder,
the file can be run then on anything, including media player, real
audio, etc.

The problem is that olympus usb is "u" -- universal.  Grr.  You still
need their software (which you have to purchase if, say, you are on a
Mac) to offload the files.

W

On 2/3/07, Dorothy E Smith <dsmith at oise.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Download software called called Digital Audio Editor. It's not free but
> it's not expensive. You can use it to save audio files in other formats,
> e.g. with a .wav extension that would be compatible with most
> qualitative methods software like HyperResearch which will code audio.
>
> I too have an Olympus. I've tried several and this is my favourite.
>
> The Discourse Studies List wrote:
>
> > I am a graduate student at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,
> > and for my doctoral dissertation I am doing ethnographic research in
> > Israel.
> > Recently, I purchased several Olympus digital recorders with the intention
> > of recording meetings, conducting interviews, etc. However, I am quickly
> > discovering that the proprietary software/files on the Olympus recorders
> > prevents me from using the sound files on any transcription software other
> > than the Olympus software, which has limitations. It is also possible that
> > at some point I may share some of the files, but the proprietary nature of
> > the recordings seems that it would make this difficult. Does anyone know a
> > work-around for this problem? Otherwise can someone suggest a recorder
> > of a
> > similar price/quality that is not proprietary?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Steve
>