Re: how to export voice messages to media

On 20/02/2025 13:05, bad sector wrote:

On 2/20/25 07:48, bad sector wrote:

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I want to save some received voice messages to a usb stick; how to do? Are these plain mp3's in there somewhere?  TIA.

 more adendum, apologies but I'm being given details in very piecemeal fashion.
 It seems that the voice messages were sent by a 7 year old child trained just enough to use his (dead) father's phone in an emergency, so the child sent a few messages to his mother via facebook messenger. These messages are stil listenable on that phone but I need to save them out before they end up in /dev/null.
 

OK, so they're not voicemail messages in the conventional sense, but FB Messenger messages. The fact that you can still listen to them indicates that they must be stored *somewhere* - either on the phone itself or in some cloud or other. Do you need internet access in order to be able to listen to the messages? If so, they'll be on a cloud - if not, they'll be on the phone. If the latter, they'll be in a folder where FB Messenger stores its files. If so, you may be able to copy them to a computer, using FTP or a USB cable. However, they may well be in a proprietory audio format which no other sofware understands - so that may not help a lot.
Does the phone have a headphone socket? If so, the best bet may be to 'listen' via that socket, using a cable to connect the socket to a computer's audio input socket, and then to record the audio using Audacity or similar. [With the correct audio settings on the computer, you'll be able to hear the messages as you record them]. If the phone doesn't have a headphone socket, you may be able to use Bluetooth instead.
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Cheers,
Roger