Les Mikesell wrote: > On 4/12/2011 5:12 PM, ken wrote: >> I'm shopping for a small/tiny audio recorder, the kind for recording in >> a class, interviews, etc... not really music, just voice. Per usual, a >> lot of these write their audio files in some Windows format, e.g., WMA. >> As a confirmed Linux guy, I'd want to offload the audio files in some >> format that Linux can read/play natively. I've read a sketchy >> suggestion that there's a Linux app or utility to do a translation from >> WMA,<http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/127583>, but I always like to >> keep things as simple as possible and so would much prefer avoiding the >> hassle and possible failure of conversion apps and Windows-format crap >> generally. >> >> Secondly, connecting to my laptop... I've got a sound card, but it >> doesn't have LineIn, just mike and headphone jacks; neither of these is >> good for input, but... Many audio recorders these days connect with USB >> (which I've got), so that's the most likely connection path. >> >> Given these parameters, does anyone have good experiences with a really >> small audio recorder and offloading and then playing its sound files on >> Linux? > > Android phones have an app called 'voice recorder' (and probably others) > that might be good enough to avoid carrying another device. The one on > my phone stores an .asf file. I don't have a linux box with audio > enabled but I think mplayer is supposed to handled that. > ASF is Microsoft proprietary format. MPlayer can play it only if you add non-foss decoder/codec. Ljubomir