Sony ICD-SX68 Recorder; can you download onto a Mac?

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Sony ICD-SX68 Recorder; can you download onto a Mac?

I bought a Sony voice recorder - (actually a couple of years ago).

It is a Sony ICD-SX68 Recorder.

It records voice and music very well, but it sits un-used in a drawer, because I have never been able to download its sound files onto my Mac.

Apparently it is only designed to work with Windows (how ridiculous?).

Is there some work-around that I can adopt to get the MP3 files off the Sony onto my Mac computer?

Or should I just toss it into the bin?

At present it is next to useless for me.

TEZZA121

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Feb 1, 2014 11:03 PM

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Dr.Mac.

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Feb 2, 2014 2:13 AM in response to Tezza121

Sony does not in any way support the use of the IC series on any Mac hardware. All of the IC units are hard coded to work on PC and there are no Sony drivers available for your unit. The only thing I can suggest would be to record the playback from your recorder into a program like audacity audacity.sourceforge.net Either that or use Parallels or Boot Camp, and export the audio to the mac in a Wav or MP3 format. To use Boot Camp, you need the Boot Camp Assistant, which is located in Applications > Utilities.

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