Converting VoiceMail messages

[alissa]

how are people doing this? is there a free program that can convert the voicemails from k7? my audio programs don't read them...

[jawbone]

You can have them send them to you as WAV files and then you can play them directly on the show. I think you can change that in your options.

[alissa]

yeah. i get the wav files. but my audio program won't read that format of wav. what program do you use?

[pdadave]

Which audio program? Do you know what codec is being used to encode them? You could always play them back while recording the stereo/mono mix from your sound card. That is what I have to do withe the voice mail files from eVoice.

[gozar]

yeah. i get the wav files. but my audio program won't read that format of wav. what program do you use?

I don't know of any audio program that cannot read wavs. What program are you using? Have you tried Quicktime player, iTunes, or Audacity?

[jeffoest]

Alissa,

I also noticed that iTunes doesn't seem to play them. I load them in Audition and convert to a 44.1 Khz Wave file. I suspect you can do the same in Audacity.

[jawbone]

I open them in Quicktime and they play just fine.

[alissa]

yeah. i can play them in quicktime. but i can't import them into my audio program because it doesn't recognize them. i use protools.

i guess my question is people who are playing them on their show, what are they doing. i might check out audacity. this it he free program right? i've also heard the soundforge can convert them. or i might try the play them through my sound card thing too. that's a good idea.

thanks for the tip.

[ferg]

Alissa,

I also noticed that iTunes doesn't seem to play them. I load them in Audition and convert to a 44.1 Khz Wave file. I suspect you can do the same in Audacity.

I don't have any problem playing them in iTunes (pc), but that's a problem, because once I play them in iTunes, they get loaded onto my iPod, and my iPod not only can't play them, but it locks up when it tries to.

[ferg]

I record on an iRiver IFP 795, with a Behringer Eurorack UB802 hooked up to it. For the voicemails, I have my iPod hooked up to the tape in of the Behringer.

To get them on my iPod, I actually convert them to mp3 files using SoundForge.

[jeffoest]

Ah! - you know what? you are exactly right. THAT was the problem. Sorry - it had been a while since I tried it - forgot that. My ipod didn't lock up but it couldn't play them for some reason.....

Alissa,

I also noticed that iTunes doesn't seem to play them. I load them in Audition and convert to a 44.1 Khz Wave file. I suspect you can do the same in Audacity.

I don't have any problem playing them in iTunes (pc), but that's a problem, because once I play them in iTunes, they get loaded onto my iPod, and my iPod not only can't play them, but it locks up when it tries to.