My voice memo won't play

Iphone 5S. Recorded a 3:42 minute voice memo. It shows the blue arrow for play but when I press it nothing happens. How do I fix this so I can hear my memo?

Are you trying to listen to the voice memo on your iPod Touch or in iTunes? If you are trying to play it on your iPod, try transferring it to your iTunes library and listening to it there.
B-rock

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At first I planned on emailing it to my friend and tried to do so after the play. The files were too large so I attempted to trim them. Nothing seemed to be happening so I just stopped. The next day I synced my iPhone 4 to my Macbook but the only voice memos that synced was the one from the second act and a previous memo that was about six minutes long.
I downloaded iPhone Explorer and it showed all of my files. However the only ones I can listen to are the six minute memo and the one from the second act.
The six minute memo has the black album art with the gray music note, and the memos from the play are white with the blue iTunes symbol and say "MPEG 4".
Also, it seems that the memo from the first act did get trimmed because two files show up and one of them ends in "trimmed.m4a" instead of ".m4a".
Is there any way for me to recover/listen to the first act of the file? Thanks in advance.
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I recently got the iPhone, and only today did I try using the Voice Memo. At first, it worked fine, just testing it, but then it stopped working right.
The iPhone records, or at least says it records, my voice memo, and when I go into the list of voice memos, it is there. But when I try to play it, nothing happens. The bar at the bottom, with the minutes:seconds, just says "0:00" at both ends.
And when I sync with iTunes, the voice memos disappear.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

see http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2062895&tstart=0 . The third party ap iphone explorer is free and finds all the lost recordings, at least as mov files (actually an improvement from the m4a files Apple makes you to use). These showed up on my phone with zeros on the counter and would not play, when I e-mailed them, the attachments were 0 KB, when I tried to find them through itunes I could not. (Side note: I like itunes for music with my ipods, but for all the other aps on the iphone not user friendly for downloading, moving around). When I foolishly rebooted the phone, three of four formally existing voice memos just disappeared. When I used to the free iphone explorer ap I found them. Files of my boy talking for the first time that would have been lost forever. Another third party ap, phoneview, is helpful for downloading photos, but didn't help on the lost voice memos. So I'm using three software programs to manage my one phone... Oh, and don't think the phone recordings are safe either. I've been a Mac user since the beginning and despite the hype I think the iphone is the worst thing they've made to date. has wasted much of my "free" time trying to make work.

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hi everyone ... i have recorded something in voice memos ( yesterday ) it was work but today it's doesn't work why when i click the voice nothing happen ?

Hey there MouazAhmad,
It sounds like your Voice Memo app is not functioning correctly. I recommed a couple of things here. First close all the running apps on the phone:
iOS: Force an app to close
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
Double-click the Home button.
Swipe left or right until you have located the app you wish to close.
Swipe the app up to close it.
When you have done that restart the phone and test the app again:
iOS: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Take care,
Sterling

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Any ideas?
thanks

I had same problem with my ipodtouch 5g on ios 6. i synced all of the voice memos but two of them wont sync for some reason.i called apple and was on phone for hour and half but they cound solv it. i used and idea and recorded the memos on my laptop with an aux cable and it worked out fine. it is also very easy for windows and mac.
*************************** I THINK APPLE NEEDS TO REMOVE RESTRICTION OF THEIR SOFTWARE OR THEY NEED TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO HELP THEIR COUSTMER. FROM NOW ON I WILL USE MY ANDROID PHONE TO RECORD AUDIO SO IT EASY FOR ME TO TRANSFER IN MY COMPUTER. SORRY APPLE U DON'T OFFER FREEDOM TO YOUR COUSTMER.**************************************

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The "Sync voice memos" box is checked and older voice memos from April and before synced in the past.
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8) clicked "Apply"
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Hi all,
I have an iPod Touch 3rd with firmware version 3.2.1 and ITunes 9.0.2
I´ve just found a weird bug related to smart play lists and Voice Memos.
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It sounds to be a bug in Itunes...
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