Hi,

There is several mp3 flash players with recording functions, and several of them record in a unknown format with the extension .ACT. The only tool I saw which can convert this files to .WAV is in this url: http://www.geocities.com/sound_converter/ (I think there is more, but this seems to be the "standard" one)

As a linux user, I want to know if there is another tools for treating .ACT files in my O.S. And I want to know what kind of quality/compression can deliver this format, specifications, who developed it, etc.

Thanks in advance.

filext.com lists the following software for ACT audio files:

• Konvertor
• ACT to WAV coverter

I guess these are Win32 only, though.

Stupid question, have you tried renaming to .mp3 or .wav? I had a player that simply renamed the extension to something else.

Kristian

Don´t know much about the format, but I have the cheap & popular "S1 MP3 Player" and also wondered what´s up with this ACT format. Quality is quite bad ( it´s 8kbps only!), but you can record much more time than using 32kbps IMA ADPCM.
I only know about the Sound Convert app that came with the player (Windows only i guess). This tool decodes ACT files to much bigger WAV files (foobar2000 says 128kbps PCM). The decoded WAV files are approximately 16 times the size of the original ACT (128kbps/8kbps=16).

It is kind of a useless format to me, unless you have a flash player with very little memory. I can record around 16 hours of audio encoded to 32kbps IMA ADPCM with a small 245MB player (256MB - system files=245MB).

Yesterday I had to use ACT because I didn´t want to delete a lot of important data I had on the player. I had free memory for only 13 minutes of 32kbps IMA ADPCM recordings, but for 8kbps ACT I had around 1 hour left.

That´s not the kind of attitude one expects from a regular HA member.

In fact, renaming to mp3 or wav is completely useless.

Megaman, I think kritip was saying that his was a stupid question.

Clarification: I.e.: "have you tried renaming to .mp3 or .wav?" is a stupid question.

@ Megaman -- Synthetic Soul was correct, i was mearly implying that my suggestion was a bit of a stupid one, not that Reztho was stupid

Only reason i suggested it was because it worked for me with an old cheap chinese flash player i had a while back, granted the file extension was different but i didn't think it hurt to mention it.

Kristian

Sorry, I misunderstood your post in a really "stupid" way . Sometimes happens when posting in foreign language forums.

Thanks for the fast responses!

Yes, ACT is crap I know (because of the very low bitrate for sure), but I think it's very very rare than there is no software in Linux for treating those files. That format seems to be very common among cheap and non-really cheap mp3 flash players. And at least I don't want to refuse the possibility to record things in ACT (if I in need of, like Megaman did) because of the software.

I think I must try Wine with the Windows tools after all.

Greetings...

Does anyone know where an ACT to WAV convertor is on the web?

I tried to use Konvertor, and it didn't work...
Also, the JP's version is in chinese, and that programme didn't work either.

Can you upload some very small file anywhere? I want to look at it little bit closer.

Contact me via email, and I'll send you a file...

What is looks like to me, when I drop it into a text editor is RIFF WAV format? I don't know. At least that's what it says when I look at it. I haven't tried fiddling with it, by changing it's .EXT.

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Rats. Now I have the same problem. I tried "Sound Convertor 2.0" it just doesn't work (complained of an unregistered OCX, tried downloading and registering the OCX and there's an error).

Any tips?

just moved a bunch of act stuff on my server:
http://xmixahlx.dyndns.org/audio/files/windows/act/


later

Thanks! I'll try 'em one-by-one and see if I can hit the jackpot

If I fail, well, there's always the souncard line-in...

anything work out for ya?

perhaps i can do some pruning


later