Extracting recordings from notes file

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

Does anyone know of an easy way to extract the recordings from Pocket PC
notes files? The problem I have is that the memory on my device gets
full very quickly and I want to delete some notes, but I'd also like to
keep an archive on my hard disk for reference. Obviously, since
ActiveSync is synching the files, if I delete the notes file on my
device then ActiveSync will also delete the corresponding copy in
Outlook on the PC; which is annoying and a very stupid way of doing things.

Ideally I'd like to archive them in a sound format such as WAVE (or even
better, a superb sound format like OGG, but I appreciate that's not
likely...) so that I can play them as needed.

I realise that Microsoft, in its efforts at world domination, tries to
lock people into proprietary formats and tries wherever possible to
force users into using their software; but in this case it's really
impinging on sensible use.

If it's not possible to do what I want (and knowing Microsoft I'm not
holding my breath here) then could anyone recommend alternative software
for taking notes and recording conversations?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

Forgot to say.
They will record to MP3 so you will have better quality and more
space(especially if you do it into flash card)

"Amirov Zakhar" <amirov@tric.ru> wrote in message
news:#FCQ1woHFHA.3484@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Try other recorders.
> NoteM - free but has poor functionality.
> Vito SoundExplorer - not free but much better and more flexible.
>
> "Urp" <a@sdbvksbvibzdfbzdzdnz.com.com> wrote in message
> news:4224b18a$0$8757$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...
> > Does anyone know of an easy way to extract the recordings from Pocket PC
> > notes files? The problem I have is that the memory on my device gets
> > full very quickly and I want to delete some notes, but I'd also like to
> > keep an archive on my hard disk for reference. Obviously, since
> > ActiveSync is synching the files, if I delete the notes file on my
> > device then ActiveSync will also delete the corresponding copy in
> > Outlook on the PC; which is annoying and a very stupid way of doing
> things.
> >
> > Ideally I'd like to archive them in a sound format such as WAVE (or even
> > better, a superb sound format like OGG, but I appreciate that's not
> > likely...) so that I can play them as needed.
> >
> > I realise that Microsoft, in its efforts at world domination, tries to
> > lock people into proprietary formats and tries wherever possible to
> > force users into using their software; but in this case it's really
> > impinging on sensible use.
> >
> > If it's not possible to do what I want (and knowing Microsoft I'm not
> > holding my breath here) then could anyone recommend alternative software
> > for taking notes and recording conversations?
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

Take a look at http://BevHoward.com/bhhpj.htm#Record for a complete
description of what's going on with the default recorder, options for
use and methods to extract previously embedded recordings.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

The easiest approach is to set notes to save recorder files as wav files
rather than embedding them within notes. think it's tools/options/stay in...

Even though the files are "synced" as outlook objects, they can be
copied to the pc directly as wav files.

Easier yet is to configure so that the recordings are stored on a memory
card, then simply plug the card into a card reader on the pc and access
them directly for use or conversion to another format.
tools/options/default/storage(if available) (Note that this precludes
new notes being synced)

An "extractor" is needed only in the case that a valuable recording has
already been made as an embedded object and needs to be retrieved...
since a lower and lower percentage of PC's can't access the recording,
an extractor would be nice, but would be concerned for you that it would
not have a wide audience.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]