Olympus DS-2300 DSS Player software OSX Compatibility

Question

I purchased an Olympus DS-2300 digital voice recorder in part because of its Mac "compatibility".
The recorder itself works great. However, the software does not work correctly with Tiger and neither does the DSS Player Plus software (extra charge for that).
Olympus tech support tried to say that it is an operating system problem, as if it was Apple's problem. However, they finally admitted their 6.0.4 software does not work correctly with most installations of 10.4 (Tiger). I'm running 10.4.3 on my iBook G4.
Olympus says they don't know when the DSS Player software will be updated to work with Tiger.
So, their statement of PC/MAC compatibility is not exactly correct (any more).
About the only thing the software will do on the Mac is play the DSS file. Most everything else in the manual related to the DSS Player does not work. The download functions do not work, you cannot update anything on the recorder itself from the Mac. The DSS Player plus file split function does not work...it causes the software to crash.
The player also does not support the new, larger M type XD cards (such as 1GB). However, there is a firmware update which will allow the use of the 1GB cards. The update has to be run from a PC however. You cannot update the firmware from a Mac.
Anyone else found these compatibility issues with Olympus? There must have been some level of commitment to the Mac that they went as far as they did. I wonder if they are going to update their software ????
iBook   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

Answer 1

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.