PC voice recorder recording into Mac iTunes

I have an Olympus voice recorder that said it would work on my Mac but it doesn't.  So I use it on a pc.  But my iTunes is on my Mac and I'd really like to get a recording off of the recorder and into iTunes.  I tried mailing the recording from a pc, opening and downloading it on my Mac but it comes up as garbled text. 

Save the WMA files onto the Mac.  Play them with VLC or install Flip4Mac on your computer to play them with Quicktime player.
VLC media player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - general media player that plays just about anything.
Perian codecs for Quicktime - http://www.perian.org - plugins to add functionality to Quicktime for playing additional audio and video formats
Quicktime audio problems, Perian, VLC - http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9013669 - read note about uninstalling prior DIVX support before installing Perian.
Free Flip4mac QuickTime player components - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx
Flip4Mac - http://www.telestream.net/
After installation a new Flip4Mac pane will appear in System Preferences.  Make sure you set the boxes to ensure that it will play WMV files in Quicktime.  There is a free version but they don't make that very clear (I wonder why?).  To do conversion vs. just playback you have to use the paid version.
Alternatively, try converting them (there will be quality loss): 
Switch (free basic version) - http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html
All2MP3 - http://download.cnet.com/All2MP3/3000-2140_4-190407.html - mixed success with WMA

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