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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Convert audionote to mp3

Hi everyone! Nice to see you on blog again! In this post, I am going to write a tutorial about how to convert files with extension .audionote to .mp3. I have just found out this step yesterday and found it useful so I want to share it here. I try it on Win7 and haven’t tested it in other OS but I think it shall work universal.


.audionote is an Apple recording file’s extension. Just like some other Apple’s extensions, this extension cannot simply be played on non-Apple devices and it is pretty hard to find software to convert it to another type of sound extension like .mp3. This tutorial might be useful if you need to share a recording file (your teacher’s presentation, workshop, phone call with your girlfriend (kidding), etc.) from your Apple device to be played to another non-Apple device in very simple steps. Here it goes:



1. Open the folder containing your .audionote file. Make sure you can see your file’s extension. If it is not shown, you can follow these additional steps:


a. Go to Control Panel

b. Click Appearance and Personalization

c. Click Folder Options

d. On tab View, uncheck Hide extensions for known file types

e. OK



2. Press F2 or right click - rename on your file. Rename the .audionote to .rar (or .zip).



3. Right click again and extract your .rar file.



4. After the extraction, you will have some files as above. The file you will convert next is the one with .caf extension (actually it is play-able already in some music software).




5. Convert your .caf file to .mp3 using sound converter software or online converter website. I am using http://media.io/


6. Enjoy your new recording file! Now you can play it on your Windows PC, Android, Blackberry, and other players.


Hope it works and helpful for you. If you have questions or found error related to this tutorial, please let me know by leaving comment below or contact me via email. Thanks for reading and have a good day.

Converting #iPad CAF Audio to MP3 (EverNote and AudioNote)

A colleague at work recently introduced me to AudioNote, an iPad app that allows you to take notes and record audio at the same time. What's neat about AudioNote ($4.99, although it's also available as a free "lite" app) is that it synchronizes your typed or handwritten notes with the audio...and you can jump forward to that portion of the audio by tapping on the text.

For example, let's say I'm recording an awesome conversation or presentation. If I sense the speaker is going to say something memorable or something I want to find easily, I can write something and it will allow me to "track" what's been recorded at the moment I wrote it. Nifty, huh?

While I wouldn't recommend AudioNote for iPad handwriting recognition--for that, I recommend this app, MyScript Memo (free)--it does fit a niche...I wish AudioNote developers would partner with MyScript Memo for handwriting recognition...this would make it a perfect app!

I also occasionally find myself converting EverNote audio. Thankfully, it's pretty easy to open these audio files.

ENHANCING AND CONVERTING AUDIO FILES

After recording a recent presentation--United Way Coordinator meeting--I found myself trying to work with the audio file--Core Audio File with a CAF extension--created by AudioNote. I wanted to convert the CAF audio file created byAudioNote into something a little easier to work with (e.g. MP3, OGG) and share.

I thought this might be a problem to convert, but there are several solutions you can take advantage of such as the ones below:

Audacity

  1. Audacity (FREE) - Thankfully, the free open source Audacity audio editor opens CAF audio files and allows you to save/export them to MP3 or OGG format (or whatever else Audacity allows). I also was able to open EverNote audio recording and enhance the audio to make it "louder." (Note: For CAF files, Garageband on Macs will also do the trick!).
  2. Bigasoft's CAF Converter ($35) for Mac and Windows - Only caveat about this are the limitations, which aren't really elaborated on until you install the software and read the limitations:
  1. The maximum 5 minutes conversion of a more than 5 minutes file.
  2. With a less than 5 minutes file, you could only convert half of it.
  1. Switch for Multiple Audio File Conversions - You can use Switch--available for both Mac and Windows--to convert multiple CAF files.