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On 2/20/25 11:13, Roger Mills wrote:
> On 20/02/2025 13:05, bad sector wrote:
>> On 2/20/25 07:48, bad sector wrote:
>>>
>>> I want to save some received voice messages to a usb stick; how to 
>>> do? Are these plain mp3's in there somewhere?  TIA.
>>
>> more adendum, apologies but I'm being given details in very piecemeal 
>> fashion.
>>
>> It seems that the voice messages were sent by a 7 year old child 
>> trained just enough to use his (dead) father's phone in an emergency, 
>> so the child sent a few messages to his mother via facebook messenger. 
>> These messages are stil listenable on that phone but I need to save 
>> them out before they end up in /dev/null.
>>
>>
> OK, so they're not voicemail messages in the conventional sense, but FB 
> Messenger messages. The fact that you can still listen to them indicates 
> that they must be stored *somewhere* - either on the phone itself or in 
> some cloud or other. Do you need internet access in order to be able to 
> listen to the messages? If so, they'll be on a cloud - if not, they'll 
> be on the phone. If the latter, they'll be in a folder where FB 
> Messenger stores its files. If so, you may be able to copy them to a 
> computer, using FTP or a USB cable. However, they may well be in a 
> proprietory audio format which no other sofware understands - so that 
> may not help a lot.
> 
> Does the phone have a headphone socket? If so, the best bet may be to 
> 'listen' via that socket, using a cable to connect the socket to a 
> computer's audio input socket, and then to record the audio using 
> Audacity or similar. [With the correct audio settings on the computer, 
> you'll be able to hear the messages as you record them]. If the phone 
> doesn't have a headphone socket, you may be able to use Bluetooth instead.



Thanks everyone, I just got off a very long chat with Telus and am 
tired. Will be back after lunch. These are facebook messenger messages 
and I 'could' forward them but only to other facebook users and it's 
unclear if or how anyone could export them. Later.