2009 Watch out Mac Users Watch out Mac users this doesn't work any longer probably for a long time now. Can't download and device isn't seen by the Mac.
Additional comment With so many reviews already available here let me avoid going over the same ground. This is a great instrument with one serious annoyance. I use it in taking biological research notes in the field and for trail notes when hiking and backpacking. The annoyance is having the STOP button immediately below the PLAY button. Despite years of use now I still manage to press the latter when trying to end a recording. So then what I've been recording is rewound and I have to mess with fast forward to find the place I left off. This is a serious enough problem for an all thumbs person such as I that if a new model appears avoiding this problem I'll buy it and give this one away.
DIGITAL VOICE RECORDER PURCHASED A USED RECORDER WAS HESITANT BECAUSE IT IS USED AND FROM AMAZON BUT IT WORKS GREAT AND I AM HAPPY WITH IT.
The BEST there is As a professional translator who dictates 6000 to 10000 words per day I rely very heavily on my digital recorder. Because the DS330 is hard to find in a local store when mine broke I tried others. After trying about 7 other recorders I got online and bought another DS330.The reasons why I like the DS300 are the following1. Ergonomics. The operability of the unit is superb in how well it fits the way I use it. The other units I have tried do not support the way I work which involves a great deal of starting stopping and jumping back by a few seconds.2. DSS sound file format is compatible with the Olympus transcription software which offers variable speed 50%200% playback with autojumpback functions etc. I have not found good transcriptionsupport software for WAV or MP3 files or other file formats. The variable speed playback is also useful when I am reviewing machine transcriptions where I listen at 200% speed to check for errors in machine transcriptions.3. Sound quality. Wonderful! The sound quality is good enough when used with my AT&T noise cancelling microphone that I can run the results through Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.0 and get high quality machinetranscribed documents with transcription quality just as high as when I dictate directly to my computer.The only downside is that I have worn out several of the units but that is likely because I have used them outside in snow storms rain storms etc.
Hope you are a digital genius! This is not a user friendly device. If you use it on a regular basis you may be O.K. I am not a regular user and I need the direction book every time. It has many many features and the learning curve was too much for me. Also learn to use the lock feature touching any of the many buttons can mess up your recording. Good Luck.
DS 330 Great Product Useless for Mac Ask me five minutes ago and I would have given this product 5 stars. I used it for college for a few years with a PC and it was great. Now I find out that all those recordings that I transferred from PC to Mac useless. The ones I just recorded the other day just pulled it from storage useless. The recorder works fine and it should as I paid about $100 for it back in the day. Had I known it had an expiration date I probably would not have bought it.
Beware of Olympus Digital Recorders! Buyer's beware. Olympus support is horrible. If you ever lose or damage your software Olympus will not help you get it. I lost my CD when I moved and you can't download the software anywhere you can't even buy it from Olympus. Now I have a completely worthless digital recorder. I'LL NEVER BUY OLYMPUS AGAIN.
Olympus DS330 recorder Have used this for 6 or more years now 2011. I use it with Win 7 just as a microphone though as Olympus has not offered Win 7 drivers for the program that works mostly on XP. I liked it with XP because the files sizes were smaller than most MP3 and similar voice files. Now I use Recordpad from[] as the program and with the DS330 as the microphone. Works well enough and you can save files in many formats with recordpad and with the same companies program Switch I can convert my voice files into any format I might need. So now I save my files as MP3 but record them and burn to CD's as wave files.
Olympus DS330 Digital Voice Recorder UPGRADE warning I've owned this product for a fair while now and had nothing but good things to say about it UNTIL I upgraded my PC to Vista.I discovered that the software CD provided with the unit doesn't work effectively on Vista and when I contacted Olympus via olympusvoice.com.au I was told the followingThe version of software you are using is not Vista compatible. We can supply you with the release 7 version for $94 including gst.Now given that I already own the software for a previous release and that the price quoted is at least 1/3rd of what I paid for the unit to begin with I'd suggest it's a bad deal.If anyone is looking at this unit suggest you check first that the software is compatible with your machine. If you're looking at upgrading your machine BEWARE you don't fall into the same trap that I did obviously I feel that Olympus' customer service leaves a lot to be desired.
Works Great on my Mac! I wanted to write this review to clarify something someone else had written that this doesn't work for a Mac. Maybe the drivers changed since the last review by a Mac user I hope they have seeing that the last review was 10/03. I haven't had any problems getting this to work on my computer witht he drivers provided on the install disc. I am running on a Dual 2 GhZ G5 with Mac OS 10.4.3I got this a few weeks ago and since then it has worked beautifully. The recording works easy. Very intuitive. The recordings soundwise are decent. Plugging in the recorder to my computer and downloading the audio files could not be any easier.I would strongly recommend this recorder.
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