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Q
19th July 2009, 16:50
ACT is some fileformat used by voicerecorders. I made recordings of the summerschool, but some of them are in this rather obscure format (most are luckily in WAV though).

Does anyone know if one can convert this to a readable format?
New Tet
19th July 2009, 16:56
ACT is some fileformat used by voicerecorders. I made recordings of the summerschool, but some of them are in this rather obscure format (most are luckily in WAV though).

Does anyone know if one can convert this to a readable format?

If there is a solution to your problem of format conversion, it will be found at http://www.doom9.org
mel
21st July 2009, 07:53
ACT is some fileformat used by voicerecorders. I made recordings of the summerschool, but some of them are in this rather obscure format (most are luckily in WAV though).

Does anyone know if one can convert this to a readable format?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT_%28audio_format%29

You can take a look here for some possible options, they give a few links you might be able to use.
Q
5th August 2009, 14:59
Above links haven't been very helpful for me. Any other suggestions?
mel
5th August 2009, 15:03
Above links haven't been very helpful for me. Any other suggestions?

Did you see this one?

http://www.geocities.com/sound_converter/

Edit:

It also mentions this in the wiki article:

There are different versions of ACT; files produced by later devices cannot as of June 2009[update] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ACT_%28audio_format%29&action=edit) be read by any free standard audio player and converter software, only by the supplied MP3 utilities.

So it might just be that you're out of luck if the above tool doesn't work.
Q
5th August 2009, 15:44
Yeah, tried that one and several others. I however run on Linux and Wine support for these obscure third party apps is not always optimal.
mel
5th August 2009, 15:49
Yeah, tried that one and several others. I however run on Linux and Wine support for these obscure third party apps is not always optimal.

You didn't mention you were on linux.

I'm not sure if there's a tool on linux you can use, but do you have a copy of windows lying around that you could run in virtualbox or something just to convert these files for you? I know it's a pain, but preliminary research is telling me that there's no linux software suitable for the job.
Q
5th August 2009, 17:08
You didn't mention you were on linux.
Well, I was hoping for getting more suitable options aswell, or at least being able to run the apps in Wine. I guess I can't always be in luck.


I'm not sure if there's a tool on linux you can use, but do you have a copy of windows lying around that you could run in virtualbox or something just to convert these files for you? I know it's a pain, but preliminary research is telling me that there's no linux software suitable for the job.
I'll ask someone who has Windows to try the suggested options then.