Anyone know of third-party solution that will allow downloads from Olympus DS-330 digital voice recorder into Lion? I upgraded my Olympus DSS player to work with Lion, but the software doesn't recognize the recorder. Olympus says the DS-330 won't work with Lion. So I can play my previously recorded files. But I can't download any new files into the computer running Lion. Any ideas? Thanks!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Olympus DS-330 digital voice record
This article has an interesting take on continuing to use the recorder (basically don't).
I hate throwing out old technology but you're kind of in a bind using a restricted format file on a player that's 10 years old (which in computer years is like 80 people years).
Thanks! The issue isn't the sound quality or the file format--both of which are fine for what I do. It's that under Lion the software won't connect with the recorder. So I can't record and download what I've recorded. I can only play previous recordings.
Do you know of a player with software that will work with Lion? Or is there third-party software that will allow Lion to connect with and download files from my old DS-330 recorder?
They mention something here about an update for Lion. I don't know if this has anything to do with your player.
http://www.opdsupport.com/news/267-os-x-lion.html
Also, did you try:
http://www.opdsupport.com/mac/98-updating-dss-player-for-mac.html
Maybe somebody else will know of something but I would not hold out too much hope. There isn't too much incentive for anybody to write software (especially Mac) for an older player, and one of the things about upgrading to newer systems is having to leave old items behind. With Apple itself any support for things older than roughly four years is lucky. People who really want to stretch things out try to find something that is about 4 years old that can still run older systems for backward compatibility, but also run new systems (perhaps under dual boot settings) to try to keep up for a while.
Thanks for your help! I did update to the lastest DSS player yesterday. No problem with the player in Lion. But it won't link up to the DS-330 recorder, so there is no way to get my files into the computer running Lion.
I have an older Mac, which is now going to become the home for all the stuff that doesn't work with Lion--and that I don't need on a daily basis.
Happy holi-daze!
Olympus DS-330 and Lion
