Re: how to export voice messages to media

On 2/20/25 12:31, VanguardLH wrote:

bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:
 

On 2/20/25 11:13, Roger Mills wrote:

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.

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more adendum, apologies but I'm being given details in very piecemeal
fashion.
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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.
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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.
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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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Thanks everyone, I just got off a very long chat with Telus and am
tired. Will be back after lunch. These are facebook messenger messages
and I 'could' forward them but only to other facebook users and it's
unclear if or how anyone could export them. Later.

 I found this:
 Decipher Messenger Export
https://deciphertools.com/decipher-messenger-export.html
 but it's not free ($20).  There might other similar tools, and maybe
some free, but I don't do Facebook, or any other social needy media
sht...shhtuff, so my eyes skimmed other that part of your posts.
 I have no idea what functions are available if you login into your
Facebook account using a web browser (i.e., use their web app).
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https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/713635396288741
  From some users that tried doing this, it takes time for Facebook to
build the .zip file before you can download it, so you have to check
back later to see if the file is available for download.

Again, I want to thank everyone who chimed in! I'm not familiar with sphones yet so I just took a shot at Roger's suggestion and started jack, then Audacity, and plugged the phone headset cable into the soundcard mic port and recorded with Audacity. Seeing nothing on the wave profile was at first a downer but it was THERE. Amplified the weak trembling voice mostly +30*-ish and ...done.
I don't like ventilating personal details on open net but owe this much to those ready to help. My son collapsed and died without warning near midnight a month ago with only his 7 year old son and dog as other occupants in the house. So far little is known about what went on all night but in the morning my grandson took the phone out of his father's pocket as he had been trained and dialed his mother living elsewhere (using facebook messenger). She was probably sleeping so it took half a dozen tries but they finally connected and she rushed over, tried to resuscitate to no avail of course and also called the medics who on arrival immediately took care of the kid and control of the situation. He had been a nurse and took three major Covid hits on the job and was also obliged to take all vaccines, either or both of which are documented as destroying artery walls among other things; in his case a coronaty artery burst and that was it. Full autopsy data will take up to a year before getting to *us*.
Other than the Covid issues I'm a little put off by finding that the ORIGINATOR of an audio message would have to jump through hoops to have a physical copy of his own voice message while it exists in who knows how many 'clouds' of all places! I don't do any social media either as a matter of policy.