Review on 🎙️ Recording Made Easy: Discover the Panasonic RR-US360 Digital Voice Recorder by John Kachinosky

As already mentioned, this device does not record to MP3, but to a proprietary Panasonic system. What they didn't realize is that the files are weird and invisible! They can only be seen by Panasonic's own software. I was running Panasonic Voice Studio software on Windows XP, both Pro and Home editions. No problem starting Voice Studio. No problem with USB connection. But while Windows can run Voice Studio, it cannot display sound files. These files are so well hidden that they don't even show up when you click Windows to show hidden files. This means I can't drag and drop sound files to create backup files. Apparently Voice Studio does not recognize any folders other than the four folders it creates to mirror the folders in the voice recorder. It can convert its proprietary files to .WAVE format and save them anywhere but not if the files are in proprietary form. I can also browse Voice Studio and create new folders, but when I save my proprietary sound files in these new folders, Voice Studio doesn't seem to recognize these sound files while they are in this new folder. Windows can't do that either. Maybe the sound files aren't there, although Voice Studio assures me that they were actually saved there? However, things get even weirder. These proprietary sound files are really fancy. I seem to have made some proprietary files visible on Windows. But new files remain hidden, only old ones are visible. But I'm not sure if they are sound files. I've just used Voice Studio to back up all the sound files to an external hard drive, but Windows doesn't recognize them. I have used this voice recorder several times. Years. I don't use it much. I created a total of 22 files with it. This is a decent recorder in terms of sound quality. I particularly like the external speaker, which not all recorders have. But the most annoying factor is the invisibility of branded sound files. If you drag the entire Voice Studio folder to the backup hard drive, you can be sure that the proprietary sound files are there too. Although Voice Studio doesn't always see them, only sometimes. It is best to drag the entire folder and copy the sound files through Voice Studio to ensure you have copied the proprietary sound files. Or as confident as possible. Too bad Panasonic has this strange system instead of the standard MP. Yes, you can convert them to WAVE files and Windows will see them without any problems. But WAVE files are much thicker and therefore take up a lot of disk space.