digital recording devices

[Michael Hipp]

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.

So what does the format look like? What is the file extension? Get on 
Google and do a search for that extension and see what turns up.

If they are truly saving the audio in a proprietary file format, then I 
think you have figured out what brands *not* to buy.

Michael