I posted several months ago on converting ACT files recorded on an MP3 player to something readable on a computer. It’s probably without competition the most-read and commented-on post on this site: there are many people out there who are looking for a tool to do this. And it seems that the ACT files generated by newer MP3 player devices aren’t compatible with the older convertors.
So, one of the readers, Phil “Mumbles”, discovered a tool that works for this stuff. He’s sent me the file after having cut it down from 8MB for a few apps to under 300KB for the just new sound convertor tool.
You can download it here — please post if it works or doesn’t work with your MP3 player/recorder so that other people looking for information on their device can find it.
One closing note from Phil:
and BTW,
It appears to hang if you don’t let it run its course (gives a not responding msg). the “hang” grows accordingly with the .act file size.
Cheers
Phil
[…] Update: The software listed here doesn’t appear to be working for newer hardware. There is updated software available in a more recent post, here. […]
Works great, unlike anything else so far. MY player is OMNI MF525.
thanks
Karl
Finally a Sound Converter that works. Thanks.
I wonder if in the package with 8 MB mentioned by Phil we
can find a TELBOOK.EXE that enables the user to sort the
database TELBOOK.BIN in alphabetical order.
need telbook? its on my driver cd that came with my player If you install the drivers you also get the telbook program and soundconverter 2.0 .act .rcr rec to wav / wave
[link deleted — see comment #5 instead]
This is a better link right from the factory itself
drivers xiron with telbook.exe sound converter 2.0 etc just instal the win98 drivers and you get everything for you’re mp3 player.
http://www.phillar.org/layout/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=85&func=selectfolder&filecatid=9
need winrar .. http://www.rarlab.com
The converter works for me BUT…
Simple request:
Need to support command line parameter
e.g. SoundCon.exe –s:“mySourcePath” [-d:“my destination path”]
[-p] for play
Less simple (and less important):
1. Convert to mp3
2. Expose as dll — to allow for use in other tools
3. Expose as add-on to other players and convertes (e.g. CDex)
Thanks a lot
Dekel
Hi,
I appreciate the help given, but tools indicated through links above didn´t work for
my Starex mp3 player.
If you are still having problems, I´d better suggest to anyone looking for
Sound Convert to try the download link indicated in the first message.
About the TELBOOK, I would ask Phil, if he is reading this board, to post the
remaining software of his package. (Obs.: My TELBOOK.EXE is working fine, but it
does not let the user to sort in alphabetical order.)
Thanks,
Marcos.
Yes it works!!! FINALLY found what I was looking for! Thank you so much!!!
YES!!!! IT WORKS FINE.
It reliefed me from lots of headaches. Thanks Phill, whomever you are and wherever you are.
It lingers a little, but just relax, get a cup of coffee and let your PC do her job.
Now it is time for some quality time at the pub.
Enjoy.
I have a Centon mp3 recorder, and this program worked for my act files. I want to point out that I downloaded a lot of similar programs, but this is the only one which worked.
It’s also small and quick to download, so thanks for helping us all!
Novatech (UK) 1Gb MP3 player purchased Nov 05. Works! Thank you!
[…] I search again the internet for the converter. And I finally found the right converter that can recognize the file. This time the software can be downloaded through this blog. […]
I download the software and it successfully converted the act file. Thank you for your assistance…
Wahab_ak
hello, im from argentina i bought an mp3 starex 512 and i don’t have the telbook.exe if anibody can help me, thanks ( my english is not very good) yo hablo castellano!!
Hi, GeR. I´ve got the same mp3 player (comment n. 7), so if you are still interested, tell me your e-mail and I will send the telbook.exe.
Marcos, I’ve forwarded you GeR’s email address. No need to post emails here (otherwise spammers will pick them up).
ESTE COMENTARIO ES PARA EL AMIGO DE AREGENTINA, GER. MI NOMBRE ES SILVIO Y TENGO UN MP3 PLAYER DE 512 MB. NO HE PODIDO ENCONTRAR EL ARCHIVO TELBOOK.EXE. CREO QUE TU YA LO TIENES. POR FAVOR PODRIAS DECIRME COMO OBTENERLO. ME GUSTRIA TAMBIEN INTERCAMBIAR CONTIGO ALGUNOS COMENTARIOS SOBRE EL FUNCIONAMIENTO DE NUESTROS APARATOS.
hey there… I got an Omni MF525 mp3 player and i got no install cd with it. where can i download a driver from to install it. Windows doesnt recognise it and i cant for the life of me find a driver download site anywhere
My girlfriend has got an Acer Advanced MP3 Player. After trying so many sound conerters, this one here is finally converting her act-recordings, she sent me for our 1,5-years Anniversary :-) Thanks a lot!!!
Many many thanks for this sw that allowed me to convert files from act to mp3! My mp3 reader is a rimax –USBeat. Happy day! :-)
I’m the owner of a Starex Digital MP3 Player and I need the TelBook.exe software
Do you have any idea about where I can found it?
Thanks a lot
Hola como nadie da respuesta me gustaria saber si alguien me pasa el famoso telbook.exe respondanme al metaleo@gmail.com porfa!!! deberia estar en el driver pero no lo encuentro!
gracias
Hi, i need the file telbook.exe is somebody have it please help me, thaks my e-mail is drivepre@yahoo.com.mx
hola yo no hablo mucho ingles pero por si alguien me quiere ayudar necesito el telbook.exe y si pudieran alguna actualización para mi mp3 starex se los agradeceria mucho mi correo es drivepre@yahoo.com.mx
LeoCc and Pablo,
I´ve sent the telbook to your e-mail. I hope it work for you.
Ok for soundconvert –20
Thank for your help ! God bless you.
Haja– ANTANANARIVO — MADAGASCAR (near of South Africa)
All thanks for Soundconvert 20 for all users MP3 dictaphone to convert ACT to MP3 or WAV.
All thanks for joahua.com website.
ANDRIAMIHAJA
ANTANANARIVO — MADAGASCAR (big island near of South of Africa)
Thank you so much it worked like a dream, If you ever get to Auistralia I Buy you a very Large Beer!!
Thanx
Mmm… free beer…
free beer? i didnt even realise you liked beer josh…
I´ve just bought the “famous” Starex mp3 player with telephone directory? and I need the telbook.exe file… TIA
Recién compre el “famoso” Starex con agenda telefónica y necesito el prg telbook.exe , gracias por adelantado
Enrique
jota.e.pe@gmail.com
Hello aLL… I have an Markvision Mp3 … and i need the telbook.exe too 4 Windows XP… because i search them and just find versions to mac and win98! ;( Help pls royedc4@gmail.com
Hola necesito si alguien de por aqui me puede mandar el famoso telbook.exe. Tengo un Starex de 1gb y no encuentro ese programa.
Saludos, Roberto
romeror@kadicard.com.ar
Its amazing! i downloaded a zillion programs, no one worked. this one did, but in the begining i did not know wether it got saved or i was only able to listen to it.
THANX A LOT!!!
thanx again, M.S.
bonjour tt le monde je peut pa vou ecrire en englai percke c pa mon pointy fort mé au moin je peut vous assuré ke ce convertisseur marche tré bien et il est tré simple a utilisé je vous conseille d’essayé
merci bocou pour votre aide et a la prochaine
Respect, man.… It works!
Thank you very much! It works! — Arvin from the Philippines
yes, it works for my MP3 model — JP’S Multi-MP3 Player JPM-602-128M (T-0055).
thank you very much.
Hi! Im from argentina, i have the same problem that everybody, i bought a starex 512mb mp3 player and i dont have the telbook.exe. Also i don’t know how do i transfer the e-books. If samebody can help me…please.… (i dont know speak english)… my e-mail is javakdc@hotmail.com
Hi, this is the first program I’ve found that actually worked, but I still have a slight problem. There is an intermittent buzzing sound that comes in on all the files I have converted. Any suggestion? Thanks
Nevermind…I solved my own problem – it was something in the recording itself! Sorry.
Hi! I am searching for a firmware for my mp3 player is a starex 256Mb W/FM Please help me!
if you need some help visit http://www.s1mp3.de or http://www.s1mp3.org
At last!! Thanks a lot. Mine is a 512 mb inf mp3 player.
hola , ya veo que todos andamos en los mismo„ y yo tambien necesito porfa me envien el programa telbook.exe para mi mp3 starex a y el conevrtidor tambien.
gracias
Hola me gustaria saber si alguien me pasa el famoso telbook.exe , el cd que adjuntaron al reproductor no funciona. si alguien lo tiene le agradeceria me lo envien a mi direccion de mail danielcalomino@gmail.com Desde ya muchas gracias por su atencion.
Great stuff! I went hunting for an ACT converter for a while, and this one finally worked!
Excellent work, thanks!
James
Excellent! Finally I’ve found a converter tool that works!
Thank you!
hallo everyone.… i’ve tried that program, it’s true converts act2wav, but i’ve another trouble, wav output file isn’t suported by my winamp or another program(for instance sound forge.….. audiograbber says file is not a 16bit file), somebody else have had that problem???? .…
I need to convert act (AMV) to mp3 or wave. Can Somebody help me?
Thanks.
MSN: moioliveira@hotmail.com
It worked, it converts the act into a sound file, but cannot be sure of the new format. Windows media player’s icon was asigned, but it isn’t capable of playing the file. The sound converter does, at least.
Because of the bigger file size, I believe some kind of .wav file is made. Can it be further converted into an mp3 file?
If you can answer, please send a copy to fcopaja@grupogtd.com
Felipe
Works, yes it works — thanks, you saved my life :)))))
awesome!!!! It takes a while but it works!!!!
si alguien sabe de donde bajar el TelBook.exe, podria indicarme
Gracias
ra_eduardo77@yahoo.es
eduardo4111@hotmail.com
The SoundConver Tool 2.0, doesn’t work, it never is converted, always act, I don’t know weather I don’t know how to use, or it doesn’t work. Please send an e-mail to me of how to use.
Thanks…
thanks!
it works with my mp3player, a blaze one.
I have tried others before, and just this worked.
thank you.
I wanna thank you for your blog and for the software that i find on your site (.. and it works very well) because the same is donloadable from a long list of sites but no one of this work. I hope that in the next future i can give you information about something that you need
ça marche, c super ça me sauve mes entretiens pour mon mémoire. merci beaucoup
This works thank you
can you disclose the file format of the act file?
The Converter works fine. I’m not technical at all, but it was quite straightforward.
Excellent programme.It has excluded plenty of headaches trying to find a converter.Thanks a stack.
Dave
Thanks! this is what i was looking for! It’s easy to use, lightweight and it really works! Thanks again ^-^
very good convertor. works effectively.
Very Very Very Nice tool.… :-)
I was fed up looking this on the sites. Lastly, I am able to use this tool.
:-)
Great THANKS for this BIG little tool from Slovakia
IT WOOOOORKS SO GOOD…!! Very quick !! Thanks!!!
Excelent, easy and it works
It took a while, to work it, but with a bit of pacience finally worked! You don´t know how much this program helped me!! Thank you!!
Excellent. Thanks for this, converted my .act files to .wav. it’s amusing how a 24mb .act can jump to an 88mb wav!
This was used files taken from a Mikomi ET-880 digital dictation machine.
Good job too as I renamed them and they wouldn’t play again on the machine!
G
the conversion is first class, god bless and keep you!!!
I wanna thank you for this link which you publish on your website .The convertor is working very good it help me resolve d all my problems with the ACT files. I recommend all those who have the same problem to try it they will be very surprise .
NOTE: I wanna tell you to accepted my wrong english .I’m from African french country.
MATHEW
Thank you, thank you, thank you! :) This one finally worked. :)
Dude, you are a *ucking life saver! I am a student at the journalism college in the second year and i have to make this very important oral history interview with a person till monday. If i don‘t do this interview i fail my course! And i super freaked-out when i saw this ACT *hit! I just didn‘t know what to do and untill i found your link i was really down. Now my problem is solved and i can do my interview so i must tell you that I LOVE YOU!
thanks a sound converter that actually works!! THANKS
Hey there… Jessica from Belgium… (funny: it’s december 5, 2006 for me right now; 11 p.m.)
Got a mp3 player 256mb (yeah i know…) and soundconvert works !
Thanks a lot THANKS THANKS I really needed it :p
OMG! Thank you SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO MUCH!
I was looking for a program to convert .act files for HOURS!
Thank you so much again, because of this program, a friend of mine is going to have a really great gift CD from all our friends before she leaves for boarding school.
THANKS AGAIN!
It works and thank you for your talent and knid help!
No words for this it works .wonderfull iam very gretfull for this program .
It is working now. My experience is that last 6 months, I have done with it which downloaded from Geocity site but now it doesn’t work at all, the bug is telling me “.….…. copy to %s.“
Now I download it(SoundConvert.zip) from the site above. It is prettily working.
Thanks alot.
Bugari
Funciona bien, gracias=it works fine, thanks.
Fantastic program, FINALLY something that works.. THANK YOU SO MUCH
Thanks for providing me this excellent program! It works just fine converting ACT files from my Microsim MP3 player/voice recorder.
Chris
Oh My God…I love you you saved my life, i could convert the files. Thanks a lot. Sound Converts y great :)
Josh you are SUPERB! Thanks a million. It does not only work.…IT WORK WOW.
I really have to thank you for this useful converter. Like Mathew i didn’t know how to deal
with ATC files which i had recorded in my Mp4 player. I couldn’t send my records to my frds.
Maybe it’s too late for me to find your soft, but i really appreciate it. Thankyou very much again.
Use cheap no name MP3 Player / Voice Recorder that records audio in .ACT format. Your Sound Converter works very well on my XP Media Center PC. Other apps failed, including the older version of the same one which produced an msdxm.ocx error. I can now record .ACT audio, convert them to .WAV with your tool and listen to them on my PC. Thank You very much for providing this very useful conversion app. Cheers! Scott
It appears to convert from my YUMI PRO MP4 player (10.843kb act to 172,803kb wav) but no sound?
I coudn´t thank you enough. I´ve beintrying for days to convert the ACT files. When I recorded in this format I didn´t know it would give me so much headache, and the material was really important. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! PRA TODOS OS BRASILEIROS COM PROBLEMA EM CONVERTER .ACT PARA WAV OU MP3 OU QUALQUER COISA QUE FUNCIONE, ESTE PROGRAMA AQUI FUNCIONA!!!!
Thanks, a lot that really worked, but it didn’t convert the file, it just reads it!! But i can say that ACT quality on PC is absolutely very baaaaad!!
Anyway
A big thanks from Tunisia!! :)
Hi
iam Rozario , i have some important recording in .act format can any
one tell the converters ,
From act format to WAV .. PLEASE
mail me at richardrozario23@gmail.com
From
ROZARIO
hallo
I have problem with act file
.My PC dont play this file .
Please help!!!!
meil ibnibro@hotmail.com
Great, after looking for an ACT file converter to wab and tested many of them available even some version of SoundCon downloaded from other site, finally I got a version that really works on Windows Xp SP 2. Thank you, I appreciate it
thanx soundconvert 2.0 realy works for me!!!
Thank you so so much for finding this!
It’s worked like a charm for converting my recordings on my Mikomi Digital Dictaphone
Once again, thank you!
Josh, chief, you are amazing I have tried so many of them and spent so many days in vain.
Thank you so much. Iyasu, that is your name in Amharic , language of Ethiopa, anytime you
swing by here I Will treat you to som good spicy Ethiopian food and 3 liter beer for .50 cents good
beer man!
THANX i m realy thankful to you
it works
Thank you so much from the cold Belgium!!!! No one worked…but this one does!!!!! :D
You saved me!
Thank you, man! It worked perfectly to a sony model mp3 thgat i’ve got here!
Thank you very much, dude!
WORK PERFECT, BUT GET THE FILE IN WAV NOT IN MP3
THANK YOU
RK
im having problems it starts off fine then it just go white for so strange reason has anyone had the problem
almost gave up. good karma to you…
Thanks A Lot!!
It works very well.
finally, it works! i tried this before but i thought it does not work because it hangs and i cant seem to open the wav file. but now i can play it thru the sound converter and windows
thanks a lot — nextbase digital audio player
I work on PC with MS Win XP and tried to convert files from a “Soundwave” MP3 USB key that records long tracks in ACT format.
The SoundConverter 2.0 does just the same as for a number of other people: it stupidly keeps asking to copy the file to %s wherever you put it (desktop, area of program launching, disk root, etc).
On the contrary, the SoundCon program does it fast and easy to a .WAV file located at the same place as the original one.
Thanks a lot for providing the executable, it took ages (relatively:) to find out that tool! This is a great place for this resource! Moreover , it’s a virus-free one and it is very tiny!
I’ll keep this place in my favorite links!
Keep going and take care.
it worked! thanks very much!!!!!!! yey!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot! This works, and totally saves my ass from transcribing interviews directly from an MP3 player with no rewind function! For those of you using CD-R King players to record things, this is the converter that works. Thanks again!
Thanks man.. I tried many programs before and finally it works! THANKS AGAIN!
I too have the same problem, like so many others. .ACT extension files, recorded by my mp3 player, aren’t played in my computer. If you are having any successful converter, please send me a copy or the link.
This is my email add: ackasun.ks@gmail.com
i look around for the act converter all day long. and finally i’ve got the right one. thanks for sharing.
Hi! thanks a lot for this program, its work perfectly.
I have a INOVIX Ipocket and its the only program that fix the ACT convertion.
THANKS A LOT (free beer if you came in france too)
Salut! Merci beaucoup pour ce programme. Il marche parfaitement.
J’ai un Ipocket de ma larque INOVIX et c’est le seul programme que j’ai trouvé qui permet la convertion des fichier ACT de mon lecteur.
MERCI BEAUCOUP (une biere gratuite si tu passe en france aussi)
Thanks for this Software, it works fine. I could convert .ACT file I had done with a mpman mp3 player…
When using the soft, wait until the convertion is done. The screen info is not really right. You could think that it is finished converting as the soft is still working…
Many thanks…
Thanks,
You saved me. My mother in law almost killed me. I have been trying to convert a discourse from her rabbi for a few days now. I could not find any converter that works. If you happpen to be in Jerusalem,
I will buy you a falafel
Works great with the ACT files created by my Camnex CM300 ( http://www.camnex.net/i-21-CM300_2GB_MP3_Player.html ). Thanks!
thank you very much!!!! it really did work!!!!!!haha
I would like convert MP3 or WAV files to ACT. Is this possible?
Finally my saved data is in use now… I have been searching all over the net for the converter. Thanks a lot. Kudos for a good job and for being a blessing for those who found this product a very reliable one.
Thank’s a million.
It works for me — Invion mp4 — and I’ve tried many.
Finally.…. this one works!
I have been looking for .ACT to .WAV converter for the past few days. And this is the only converter tool that works for the .ACT file of my digital voice recorder. Thanks a lot for sharing this tool.
Hi, thanks for the post. Device used: Mikomi digital voice recorder Model ET858. Works a treat.
Paul
The coverter worked fine. I am using a locally produced mp3 player CDR-King
Finalyy a converter that works! Thanks a lot.
merci beaucoup, c’est exactement ce qu’il me fallait.
Thank’s a lot lot lot, it’s exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you sooo much for posting this, I have search high and low and this is the only workable one, thanks a million.
NB: if you are using this wait for the status bar to disappear then look into the folder/directory where you load the file from to see the conversion equivalent of it.
i love you so much. Ive tried all kinds of converter in the market and this is the only one that works. you saved my research.…thanks a lot
Thanks a lot : I could concert a MPman CT18 file but I can’t email the stuff : any suggestion?
Great! works fine! Wish I had found it earlier… Many thanx
Great! works fine!
thanks U very very very much.…
Hallo Josh,
I’d like use your program “Sound Convert Tool 2.0″ with Windows XP.
The program is in h:\SoundConvertTool. The act-file is in the same or in a another directory.
I “open” a act-file, choose a “Outpit Option” and press “Convert”.
The program shows me a error-window: “Can’t find above file, Please copy it to %s.“
What can I do?
Thank you, Irma
Thank you so much, Josh, it worked very well and I succeeded in converting my ACT files from a MPman MP-CS157 (1GB) with Windows XP SP3. I did’nt encounter any difficulty to install the programm, I found it really easy to use and immediatly red the .WAW file with VLC 1.0.5.Many thanks again. Magikelly (Nice — France)
At Last!!! I can’t thank you enough guys.…wheeeeewww almost a half-day i’ve spent finding the right tool..thanks so much!! Godbless! :)
won’t work for me :( for some reason when i plug my mp3/mp4 player to my computer, all my act files show up as WAV… but they are not. i transfer them to my hard drive and try to play them and they won’t. so i change the extension to ACT. i try to use this program. but when i click on ‘convert’ i get an error message that says ‘unsupport format’ :(
any ides..??
thank so much.
It works ! Thanks a lot. I’ve waisted my time testing other buggy tools but this one wooooorks !
Thank you sooooo much Phil. I was doing interviews for my dissertation and was having trouble converting my .act files to a format I could open on my PC. This forum has literally saved my behind :D Many, many thanks! You’ve LITERALLY saved my life
thanks karl that work verry well !!!! u the bestt … n am using windows 8
Thank you so very much Josh or Phil!! YOU guys totally saved my life on Friday. I’m very grateful for this bolg cuz i downloaded a whole bunch of other stuff but none of them worked. If you were here i’d kiss you.
Thanks again
– Joan