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Review on πŸŽ™οΈ Olympus WS-210S Voice Recorder (141960) (Brown): Compact and Reliable Recording Solution by Derrick Bellando

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Review for Macintosh users and those matching audio to video

I'm killing my head right now. Problem: Looking for a disgusting WMA workaround for Macintosh. One would hope that Olympus would use a more established audio format than WMA. First, find an audio program that actually converts to AIFF (or mp3). Well I found this app called Switch which is now shareware (not free). Luckily I didn't pay for it because the other big problem is that when trying to match Olympus files to video, the slightest discrepancy is in the speed at which the audio files were recorded to 99.75 percent of the video. So you will find that the audio is slowly separating from the video. Too much hassle to handle all this as there is no streamlined workflow. This comes in handy if you don't want to match the video to the audio recorded by Olympus, as drift isn't an easy workaround that I know of. MP3 and even WAV files are easier to edit, but WMA files are not. Again, we're talking about the Macintosh platform. Can't Olympus just use the compressed audio codec used on Windows, Linux and Macintosh? How difficult is it to do?

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  • Negative Impression

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May 30, 2023
Excellent music recorder also!