How do I import sound from digital recorder?

Make and model?

I have a little Zoom recorder. It records to a mini-sd card. I can do either:

Put card into adapter, attach to Mac - done.

or

Use the provided USB cable. Nothing to do but connect it to the computer with it, turn it on - done.

Either of those methods used with my recorder resulted in the files being displayed in the Finder.

So list your make and model of recorder here and we'll see if we can help!