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Converting dictation recordings to MP3 or Audio CD for storage

RevDarkman
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2007-06-08
Submitted by RevDarkman on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 2:00am.

Hi All

I have a Polycom IP6000 set up with the dictation module in FreePBX to record meetings. Using CE 2.6

The recording works just fine and I can playback the audio through the Polycom, or any other IP phone configured on that extension.

I have tried setting the format to WAV, RAW and GSM but have yet to be able to convert the file successfully, and nothing on a PC, Windwos or Linux based can play the files, only the phones.

What I would like to do is create an audio CD which can be played in anything, and also for archiving purposes.

Does anyone have anything like this working ok?

Ifan

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kevin527
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2006-08-09
Have you tried
Tue, 11/03/2009 - 2:24am

Vlc media player will play most things. You might like to download a trial version of Nero to convert files to cda and then burn to CD.

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RevDarkman
Posts: 166
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2007-06-08
I have tried.....
Tue, 11/03/2009 - 2:34am

sox and Audacity to convert RAW to WAV, MP3 with no luck
I have used VLC, CDEX, Nero and a host of Linux apps to convert from WAV to MP3/audio cd with no luck

There has to be something wrong with the format as recorded, as I can't even PLAY a WAV file in anything, only on the phones


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andrew
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2006-05-30
I have had no problems
Tue, 11/03/2009 - 11:42am

I have had no problems playing the wav files using vlc. Converting the files to mp3 is also easy. Use this command

lame -V2 msg0000.wav msg0000.mp3


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RevDarkman
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2007-06-08
What about...
Wed, 11/04/2009 - 3:18am

so what about converting .raw files?

I left the setting at Ogg Vorbis, and no matter what I do to try and convert to wav / mp3 I get noise and nothing else!

btw vlc does not play the .raw file - only the phones play the .raw and the .wav for that matter


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