Audacity Forum

I have heard that you can use audacity to access this DVR from a Mac. Can anyone tell me how. I would be using a MacBook Pro running 10.5.2
thanks

Very simple.

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... Id=2102970

Or longer equivalent. Plug one of those into the earphone output of the unit and into the Line-In of your Mac. It's the two little black arrows pointing into a circle.

Apple > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input > Line-In.

Play a show on the unit and the Apple sound meter should light up and bounce (you may not hear anything).

Audacity > Preferences > Audio I/O > Recording > Built-In Audio.

Open Audacity. Click once inside the red recording meter, but don't start a recording. The red lights should flash when you press play on the unit.

If you need to hear it, too...

Audacity > Preferences > Audio I/O > Software Playthrough. If that doesn't work right, try the other options down there.

Press Record in Audacity and play on the unit. Enjoy the recording.

That whole thing reads like an engineering treatise, but after the first time you do it, it's pretty simple.

It's like the twelve volume set of "How to Ride a Bicycle."

If you get stuck, check back.

Koz

What I was wanting to do was somehow mount the Olympus VN4100pc so I could put the file directly in the computer from the Olympus memory

The machine uses a wacky 4-bit sound format that only its own software recognizes. You may be able to use Super or Switch on a PC to convert to a 16-bit WAV file that you can open in Audacity. On a Mac, if the files won't open in QuickTime or iTunes, you're out of luck. Somebody may make a third party converter package. Google your brains out. ffmpeg and lame are two possibilities. lame is used to convert in and out of MP3. but it can do a lot more than that. The developers were trying to stop lame from being type cast with its name. Lame Ain't an Mp3 Encoder.

Desperation method, see: audio cable.

Audio files from VN Series digital voice recorders cannot be saved to an audio CD for playback in a music player. This is because the 4-bit bit depth used to expand the memory capacity in the recorder cannot be converted into a format with the file properties necessary to create an audio CD. The files can be saved to a data CD that can be played on a computer using the bundled Digital Wave Player version 2.1 software.

Koz