Voice memo playback

i sent a voice memo to a friend and she can't hear the playback... the ringer volume is up and she tried turning up the volume during play back and still didn't work... any suggestions?

*sigh* Thank you very much! That was the problem, I'm surprised I hadn't noticed that sooner haha. Time for bed.

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After recording a voice memo on my ipod touch 4th gen. I play it back on my bluetooth JBL flip. Now when I playback sound levels are sometimes extremely quiet, and other times play at normal volume. Volume on Ipod touch and JBL flip will be maxed out and still volume playback are extremely quiet. I have tried turning off and on Ipod and not found anything work consistently at solving this issue.

Do you have a Phone? In your case i would save some money for an iPhone. Like i am doing now - i also got a 4G iPod.
Anyways if you really wanna go for another iPod, take the 5G now. The 5G is a big update from the 4G and Apple released it last year, so i think that the 6G will come in 2014.

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Can the Voice Memos app be configured to play when it is not in the foreground?
By default, if Voice Memos is playing a recording and I press the Home button to get to another app, playback immediately ceases.
Thanks.

Hey raymondgauthier,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Looks like you are having trouble with the playback performance unsing airplay. This article provides steps for troubleshooting performance issues.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5209
Have a nice day,
Mario

How can I get a Voice Memo from my iPod to my PC?

I record discussions with coworkers on my iPod Touch because I have trouble taking handwritten notes.
The trouble is that the Voice Memos playback screen is small, and the Scrub control is so small, that it's hard to use with any precision. I wind up going back two minutes in the recording when I only need to go back 30 seconds, that kind of thing. It's very time-consuming transcribing notes when I listen to much larger portions of the recording than I need to, multiple times.
To make things worse, the Scrub control in Voice Memos is very near the Delete button.
All I want to do is move or copy this recording off of my iPod and onto a PC at my job, so that I can listen to it on a larger player that's easier to use. Needless to say, I'll manage to play an unprotected audio recording on my PC one way or another.
My "real" iTunes installation is at home. Can I move the file from my iPod into an otherwise empty iTunes installation at work? I'd also like not to erase my iPod by syncing it to an empty iTunes installation; been there, done that.
I've tried Messaging these recordings to friends with iPhones to be able to see the recordings as an attachment to a Sent Message. This gets me a larger QuickTime player, but there are drawbacks with needing to Message a 24-minute recording to a friend with an iPhone.
I would also be happy to be able to use this recoding in a larger player on my iPod without the silly business about Messages that is cited above.
Thanks.

Thanks Caramby. I actually found another work-around
Here's how to copy the voice memo to your laptop (and then email it if you need to):
With iTunes open on the Voice Memo folder of your device (an iPhone 4s in my case), simply drag the required file from iTunes and onto the desktop of your pc/laptop. It won't remove the file from your device but simply make a copy. Then you can play the file from your pc/laptop (through Quicktime) as the file is in AAC format. You can also attach the file to an email for sending.
Hope this helps someone else.
RB

How do you [playback voice memos on iphone 5s

I cannot playback voice memos.When I hit done it just continues recording

Tapping "Done" should stop the recording.
Have you tried resetting your iPhone?
Reset: Press the Home and On/Off buttons at the same time and hold them until the Apple logo appears (about 10-15 seconds).
No data will be lost.

Voice memo volume

I just got an iPhone 5S (had a 4S). I use Voice Memos alot and am having trouble hearing my voice on the 5S, it doesn't playback very loudly. There's nothing I wrong with my hearing, I have the volume turned up all the way using the volune Up button on the side, but I still can't hear it very well in the quiet of my house. I probably won't be able to hear it if I'm out on the street or in the car or something. Is there something else I can set to increase the volume level?
TIA,
Audrey

Hello NCMead,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
I'd like you to take a look a the follow support article, specifically starting at step 5:
Verify that the volume is set to a level you would normally be able to hear.
Ensure that there is nothing plugged in to the headset jack or the dock connector.
If the iPhone is in a protective case, make sure that the speaker port isn't blocked by the case.
Make sure that the speaker and dock port aren't clogged with debris. If necessary, clean it with a clean, small, dry, soft-bristled brush. Carefully and gently brush away any debris.
If an audio issue occurs when using a specific application, try testing other applications to see if the issue persists.
If the iPhone is paired with a Bluetooth headset or car kit:
Try turning off Bluetooth.
If you experience difficulties with the Bluetooth feature, follow these troubleshooting steps.
Restart the iPhone.
If restarting doesn't fix the issue, ensure that your iPhone is updated to the latest version of iOS.
If the issue is not resolved, please contact Apple Support.
iPhone: No sound or distorted sound from speaker
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5180
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Voice Memos - visually low decibel level

Hi all,
I just bought a brand new iPhone 5s (coming with iOS 7.0.2) and I'm overall very happy with it. But when I opened the Voice Memos app and tried to record something I got a little bit worried that my mics might not be working properly or hopefully it's just a software thing.
First of all, I've already read quite a few threads both here and in the other forums about this app crashing down or not finalizing the recordings properly, I haven't tested it out yet. I have a different concern, when I tried to record my voice at a normal distance holding my iPhone in my hand streched out approximately 1.5 feet away from my mouth and speaking as I usually do (not too loud but kind of just like when having a conversation in a non-noisy environment), the waveform depicted in the app stayed almost flat which according to a scale on the right hand side means less -10 dB (or negative infinity as it would usually be gauged on professional sound equipment). I don't really think it's normal since the waveform is supposed to be useful for editing memos and it seems like the waveform will be visible either if the sound source is loud or close.
I'm particularly anxious for two reasons. Firstly, I often have to record stuff because I'm a student and a musician so I really need my mics to work properly. Secondly, I've had bad experiences with mics on other Apple devices. At some point the mic on my iPad 2 became very insensitive. I almost had to put it an inch away from my mouth for it to be able to record anything. Then I learned that vacuuming the mic helps but only for a while. It couldn't be judt dust or anything because at some point it would suddenly relapse into this condition the following day without gradually becoming less sensitive, it was just a snap and it wouldn't work well. Then something similar happened on my iPod 4th gen but I didn't even try to vacuum it. I dropped both of these devices but this problem appeared on my iPad befor that I believe. So I'm really worried about these mics problems being a seemingly common issue with Apple devices.
So I was wondering if anyone has similar problems/concerns. I haven't tried recording something really loud maybe such calibration will come handy. In my trial of the app I could hear the recorded sound (as if coming from a distance but quite passable). So I hope it's a software calibration rather than a hardware issue. I decided to carry out a test and since the volume of the sound is a difficult thing to reproduce in the exact same conditions I tried to set it up so that some of you might be able to repeat it if you want to compare our results. So I bought 'Blurred Lines' by R. Thicke on iTunes, a popular song these days, playbacked it on my iPod 4th gen at maximum volume (oops just realized I have an iPod volume limit set up at about 75%) placed at various distances from my iPhone 5s so that the iPod's top faces the iPhone's bottom.
Here are the results:
1 foot away - negative infinity
8 inch - almost the same
4 inch - topping at -10 dB
2 inch - -7 dB
0 inch (almost touching each other) - -3 dB sometimes going up to 0.
And by the way in the right hand corner there's a speaker sign which I assume means recording with a bottom mic for calling or the mic that's near the camera. The results are basically the same. And one more thing, when recording videos I get clear sound.
So if you got to the end of this post I know my experiment is kind of complicated, I just like to have this scientific approach. You can try to repeat it if you have time and can set up all the same conditions but otherwise any opinion/information will be very welcome.
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Can't retrieve voice memos on iPhone 4

Anyone have a tip on how to retrieve voice memos in the iPhone 4?
When I tap the button to the right of the VU meter, nothing happens. It was working fine up until now.
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Hello all,
I suspect that I have found a bug in the Voice Memos tool that comes with iPhone. Does anyone know how to report this to Apple? I'm not a developer, so I can't go through the Apple Developer Connection, and the www.cqf.apple.com URL that they want non-developers to use doesn't work.
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I'd like Apple to look into this and perhaps consider making the stop button unavailable until the file is truly ready to be stopped. Does anyone know how to report this to them? They seem to make it so difficult.... Of course, if anyone has any thoughts on this or has had the problem too (surely I'm not crazy?), I appreciate knowing more, although I doubt there's anything I can do to fix the problem, except to avoid tapping the pause button in the first place, and if I do, go slowly and allow the tool to actually continue recording before tapping stop.
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I thought with iOS 7 they would improve playback to run in the background but it didn't happen. They clearly put effort into this new version of the app so it's not like it was written off, but the functionality is now worse than it was! Recording is higher quality, but the rest of the app is not as functional as it used to be!

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Using Voice Memo on my iPhone 4 (iOS5), I just did an interview which lasted 11m 8s (as shown just before the blue arrow on the right of the screen). I did not receive any call or message during the recording, and the phone was plugged in to power (not a computer).
I tried to play back my memo, but for several minutes it was somehow unavailable: instead of a blue "Play" button on the left, all I had were the "circling dots" indicating an ongoing transfer or activity.
Then it finally let me play the file. Here's the problem: I only get the first 3m 22s (as indicated on the right of the time slider, at the bottom of the screen during playback). The file itself still displays a proud 11m 8s. So where are those ~8 missing minutes?
After syncing with iTunes, and even trying to get the file directly via a third-party app on my Mac, all I get is a 3m 22s .mp4 file. The rest is just lost, there is no other file in the recording folder nor in iTunes—just previous memos.
That was a professional interview. It's the first time a vanilla iOS app from Apple is letting me down that bad.
I can't do that interview again. Does anyone have any idea where the missing part of the recording actually went? What happened?
Last but not least, if anyone has a suggestion for an app to replace Voice Memo, which I don't trust anymore for my work… I'll gladly take it too.
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