Q: voice memos not showing up in itunes

Hi

I have not read the discussion, but today I was unable to syn the voice memos on my 3G phone using ITunes and thought I should pass on the experience as it may help someone.

I tried several times by checking and unchecking various boxes to no avail.

I then noticed that the last recording on the IPhone was quite long and it seems that I must have forgot to press the 'stop' button to end the recording. I played it ok and it had a long time with just background noise, confirming my suspicions. I noticed the time of this recording was listed as 0 sec whereas all the previous memos had more than this. Once I deleted this 'o sec' recording, the sycing worked fine.

I use the voice memo app to record way points such as street names while making a gps track on my cycle which I use to update the Open Street Map. Often the phone runns out of memory before I finish the ride and did so today and I think this coincided with me forgeting to end the recording.

It was a releif to find I was able to syc once the last '0 sec' one was deleted.  I was able to listen to it OK? Glad it wasn't impotant.

cheers

The problem recording was only a couple of minutes long, so not that large but it seems that it was probably not completed correctly due to the phone shutting down to to power loss I guess.

Worked great and took all of 2 minutes. thank you!

This worked well for me - thank you Sagal! http://downloads.ecamm.com/PhoneView.zip

Can't believe this is STILL a problem with the new OS. Fustrating hours spent trying to figure this out until I read this thread and then by trimming the recording it worked and synced over wifi, easy as.  However the trim function in the new Voice Memo is really annying to use.  You can't zoom in on the waveform for a detailed trim of the audio.  Really clunky to use. It took a while to trim a memo to the right point as so not to delete the acutal recording!  Come on Apple...

I recorded a one and a half hour lecture today. Tried to get it off my iphone 4s (ios7) to my idevices MBAir. Itunes did not show the file. Tried to share it via email. No luck.

Ended up using imessage on iphone and imessaging it to myself. Laptop now has it, it was 17mb in size.

Worked but a clunky work a round. Bettery to use Rode recorder pro I think.

Never had this problem until iPhone 5s/iOS7. iTunes on my MBA does only sees old recordings. iTunes on my iMac (the machine I use for my iPhone back up) does see the new ones. After syncing on the iMac, the MBA does also see them. But that doesn't solve my problem: I want to transfer the recordings while travelling, because I want to work on them right away.

iPhone Explorer and iFunBobx don't seem to work with iPhone 5s/iOS7. PhoneView did the job for me. But that costs $ 29,95 after a trial of a week.

How is it possible a third party app can see the voice memo's and iTunes can't?

Is there a alternative recording-app that does it's own transferring (not bij mail, my recordings are always way too big)?

Edit: iExplorer (not iPhone Explorer as I named accidentally it in my previous post) does work with iOS7. I now use Recordium to record my interviews, iExplorer sees them without a problem. Great solution. And Recordium is a beautiful and highly praised app. Got it for free once, it costs $ 2,99 now. No solution for recovering old interviews, but you can try PhoneView for that, it's free the first week. Good luck!

And Apple, come on...

I found all my old recordings in User/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Voice Memo's. You can copy them or play them from there.

[Now hoping that someone can help me with my problem, see the two posts above.]

Everyone should be drowning Apple in feedback about this - go do so if you have not, or do it again if it's been a while:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

There's NO EXCUSE for the delay on getting this fixed somehow and they haven't done ONE **** THING in YEARS with this ridiculous situation.  Apparently, they even let this issue slide right on into iOS 7, which is already at 7.0.2 due to other more serious issues.

Apple quality is really sliding.  Anyone with a Mac on Mt. Lion notice their sloppy update revealed the mach_kernel file (have to set it back to hidden with Terminal for them)?  How about checking for updates as a Standard user and the Mac App Store saying "No updates available", but then you login with an admin user and there they all are?!

This Voice Recorder issue was the canary in Apple's QA coal mine.  Are they hiring old Microsoft QA staff from the 90's or what?!  Johnny Ives could care less as long as it's pretty and shiny, while Cook is too busy counting inventory.  What gives with them these days?!

Ridiculous.

CORRETION: The voice memo's do work and I was able to sync from my 4S to LATEST version of itunes Oct 2013.

Make sure you understand how to do this. My recording was 1h and 45mins long. There is some lag when you bring up long recordings like this on your iPhone, as someone noted,  after you hit stop and go and look at the recording it says 0 mins! - but wait a bit as it's writing the file to disk/ram   This was my experience with my poor old 4S with 32Gigs of memory. Make sure you have plenty of free storage space too and if you guys are messing about with old iPhone 4's or 3GS froget it, these phones are orders of magnitude slower and you're asking for trouble. Using a 4 compared to a 4S is noticable faster in every way. 

Better still just pay the $5 and get the RODE rec app, works like a champ and has compressors etc and you can use the program to upload to an ftp site of Dropbox. 

Oh and my method / workaround does not work if you have audio that needs to be tweaked as this will compress the audio and make it impossible to edit in LogicX or the like because it's a lot worse quality than the original. If you have nice clean audio the iMessage trick will work.

It seems that since apple made us upgrade to IOS7 - nothing works

syncios doesn't work and macroplant doesn't work anymore since the IOS7 upgrades.

:/

they don't appear in iTunes either

how do u trim the voice memo?

On my ipod which is running ios 6.1.5, you go to "voice memos" and then select the blue circle with the white greather than sign for the voice memo you would like to trim. You then click on "Trim Memo".

On my iphone which is running ios7.0.4, you select the memo and then the blue rectangle with arrows to trim the memo.

Hope this helps!

Really frustrating......Please...could you help me?

I can't sync voice memos with mu iphone 4 IOS 7

Thanks