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