Totally off topic, random question. :D

[EmeraldKitten]

I have several voicemails saved from my dad.
It irritates me that I have to go back through and save them all the time so they don't get deleted.
(However, I've been doing that for oh, about 4 years now, but whatever, lol.)

Anyway, these voicemails are all I have left of him really.. so I would like to record them, but I don't want to just leave them on the computer for something bad to happen to them.
Can you burn sound files like that onto a CD?

Or does anyone else have a better idea?

I would just keep saving them, much as it irritates me, but I'm afraid one of these days its going to delete one without my permission.

Okay, that's it I think.
Thanks in advance.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

If you can get them from your phone to your computer they can definitely be burned to CD.

However, if they are that important to you (which I am assuming they are), I would copy them to your computer, burn them to CD, and upload them onto a filing site that would allow you to redownload them just in case something happened to the CDs and your computer.

I would also keep a file that important to me on my work computer, and any backup computers and hard drives that I have (which is a few).

 

[Carnevil9]

The hard part is getting it from your voice-mail system to your computer. Radio Shack sells a little device that connects to your phone and a USB port on your computer which lets you do it. But it has to be the type of phone with a removable handset; the device goes in between the handset and the desk part of the phone.

Good luck!......Carney

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'd give the cops a call, ask to speak to a communications service supervisor. I'll bet you anything they can download the vociemail for you in a jiffy if you provide a CD. I mean, theyre in the business to do such things! Right?

 

[sr71plt]

I'd give the cops a call, ask to speak to a communications service supervisor. I'll bet you anything they can download the vociemail for you in a jiffy if you provide a CD. I mean, theyre in the business to do such things! Right?

I'd ask James to make the call for you. He obviously has a lot of time on his hands and probably has extensively dealings with the cops already.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'd ask James to make the call for you. He obviously has a lot of time on his hands and probably has extensively dealings with the cops already.

True.

But I'm pretty busy counting all the Representatives the GOP gained in the last election. Where was I? Oh! 63.......

 

[sr71plt]

True.

But I'm pretty busy counting all the Representatives the GOP gained in the last election. Where was I? Oh! 63.......

But they are all just politicians too, so they can't know anything or be up to any good either, right? Got stick with your sweeping generalizations.

 

[michchick98]

You also might be able to call the phone company and ask if there's a way they can send the sound files to you via email. I have a friend of mine who does the same thing (saves the voicemails from her dad) and she ended up accidentally deleting one instead of resaving it. I wish now I would've saved a couple of the voicemails from my dad.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

You might be able to call up your voicemail remotely through some VOIP program like Skype, and save the files to your computer that way (try it out on a test voicemail and not the important ones).

 

[EmeraldKitten]

Thanks for the advice you guys.
I started saving them because I wanted ammo for when I was mad at him... sweet girl, huh?

I had more than that saved, but deleted them.
I never thought in a million years he would pass away and then I would want them for a completely different reason.

So yeah, I just don't want to accidentally delete.

Hmm, I will have to fiddle around with it this weekend.. I am hoping it can just be easy! lol.

I appreciate the time you guys took to respond. I knew I ed this place for a reason.

 

[Pure]

it's crude, but it seems to me that if your computer has a microphone, or you can get one, then simply play the voicemails** into the microphone, saving it as an audio file of some sort. then transfer that to DVD, i.e. 'burn.'

**even if they only are heard through the earpiece of your phone, you can set it to 'speaker'.