digital recording devices

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, dep wrote:
> greetings, boys and girls!
>
> i'm embarking on a little project that will involve a lot of interviews,
> which i hope to make using one of the small, nifty digital recorders of
> the sort made by sony and olympus (i have one of the little olympus
> devices). these can be dumped to computer via usb port. problem is,
> they seem to save everything in their own, proprietary, file format.
> the format varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, but in each case
> is compressed. the machines also come with windows-only software, which
> allows the user to convert to .wav, which is of course much larger.
>
> so what i'm looking for is either a linux application which can
> manipulate these proprietary formats, a utility that runs under linux
> which will simply convert the files to something that i can then
> manipulate, or a manufacturer of these little recording devices which
> employs a standard format or has software which runs under linux.
>
> anybody have any wisdom to impart?

wine?

Other than that, i think you're out of luck.

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