Trouble With Voice Memos

I've been struggling with the same issue. Previously, voice memos would sync from my iPod Touch to iTunes, then back to the iPod Touch in a predictable way. That is, there would be a "Voice Memos" folder on the iPod Touch that would exactly mirror the contents in iTunes. So the Voice Memo app would serve as a kind of temporary holding area for incoming voice memos, which would then be properly filed with iTunes upon sync.

But lately, voice memos in iTunes', as you observed, don't seem to make that round trip.

My theory is that with iOS5, Apple decided that voice memos, when on your iPhone or iPod Touch, should only exist in the Voice Memos app, which is why they steadfastly refuse to transfer back to iOS device. This is massively inconvenient for me, because I like to use iTunes to organize my voice memos, then be able to hear them back on my iPod Touch.

One (incredibly inconvenient) workaround is to copy the Voice Memos to the finder, delete them from iTunes, then bring them back into iTunes. This seems to sever the association with the Voice Memos app and let them be treated like any other audiofile. But needless to say, this isn't a great solution.

Tonight I started googling/searching for the same issue. One thing I tried that worked was to right click on the files in iTunes that would sync and select "Create MP3 version". Effectively it created a duplicate of the file but in anothe file format. I moved the MP3 version to the playlist that syncs to my iphone and VOILA! It worked. I moved memos from my iphone to my ipod touch.

That's not a bad solution, but there's one minor caveat: every time you transcode to a lossy audio format such as mp3, you degrade the sound quality slightly. For a voice memo and a single conversion from aac to mp3 this probably isn't a big deal, but it's worth being aware of the general principle.

i'm looking for help on the same thing i have a iphone 4 3gs memos are on itunes not on phone and i want them removed they show up to be on phone but not