Call recording

Hi,

I have spent hours searching the App store for an App that can record my telephone conversations. I found 2. "Recorder" only works in US and CallRec.me works in most countries but in a most peculiar way; At the same time you make a call you also make a second parallel call to a server center and then you merge the two calls, via your phone. The server center apparently records the message and saves it. Any solution the means having to pay for two calls internationally or anywhere (I travel a lot) must be wrong. You can't start recording in the middle of a conversation without a pause while merging the call to the server center in. !"#€/€"()/€%#"!#

Please advice me in what to do. Isn't there any good recorder out there?
I need the following (it exists for Nokia):
1 - Be able to configure what calls to record (i.e black list/white list, incoming or outgoing or both).
2 - Be able to record incoming or outgoing calls on the fly without have to start yet another App and take time to "fiddle around". I mean it should all work in the background automatically.
3 - A simple configuration; Record all calls I would like.

Since I don't know in beforehand if a call I receive or make will be threatening or for any other reason worth recording the App most be simple to use, automatic and preferably incorporated into the standard dialing App. Of course you could make a new App for dialing your calls facilitating the recording of the call.

I have had this for years in my latest Nokia and it works very well.

Any advice? Please please please!

PowerMac G5 2,7 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Mar 1, 2010 12:59 PM

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Mar 1, 2010 2:31 PM in response to Stefan R

There are varied rules in different countries as to the lgality of recording telephone conversations - some its outrigth illegals, others its legal and in some its legal if one party to the calls knows and in more yet, its only legal if both parties know its being done. This will be part of why Apple have not provided the feature I am sure.

The second is much simpler - you cannot run a third party App at the same time as anything else except the iPod feature. having the App would be pointless as an incoming call would close the App down - there is no way around this.

The features you list are unlikely to come about as they would fall under the first category above - borderline or illegal depending upon where you are.

As the App would interact with the audio channel and the dialling features it again, would never gain Apple approval IMO as it interferes with the core facilities and could be used to hijack your dialling and hence run up large bills.

Simple solution - pocket recorder, next to the phone, with the phone on speaker.

Its not ideal but I don't believe there is a solution out there for you.

Mar 2, 2010 3:23 AM in response to Stefan R

Hi,

Thank you for your input! Where I live (Sweden) it is ok to record messages that I am participating in. I know that there are different legal views on this subject around the world. Hopefully someone has invented a small recorder to be connect in between the iPhone and the headset. That could work! As long as it has a usb interface to download recordings to my computer.

Regards,
Stefan

Mar 3, 2010 2:04 AM in response to Stefan R

Stefan R wrote:

Hopefully someone has invented a small recorder to be connect in between the iPhone and the headset. That could work! As long as it has a usb interface to download recordings to my computer.

I am afraid not that I've ever heard of.

Its possible to cobble togetehr something, like a headset attachment into the audio jack, which connects to both a recorder and a headset/mic combination. I seriously doubt it though, but good luck in getting what you need - even if from radio Shack and having to make one yourself !

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