Why Olympus would restrict access is beyond my imagination, unless their marketing department is run by a bunch of punitive monks, because people have been clamoring for such an upgrade and if you went through all of the software upgrades available for downloading for all of current models of digital voice recorders in the entire Olympus line-which I did-you still would not find a link allowing you download the new Mavericks-compatible version of DSS Player.įor some reason though, if you Google correctly for it, you can find it on the Australian website at: Well, it turns out that Olympus actually did update DSS Player to a Mavericks-compatible version 7.5 this past December, although you had to damn lucky to accidentally come across a blog which mentioned it, while also adding that downloading of the upgrade was restricted to dealers and others who access to a private portal. AIFF as the intermediary format, users were essentially stuck with a great piece of hardware but no software to work with it, unless you still kept your PowerPC alive.

mp3, and even then, Switch could not convert the lower LP mode, or even some of the SP mode files. DSS files, nor was there any audio converter software other than NCH's Switch available to convert. DSS files off of the recorder and onto your Mac, but the Mac could not play. With the special USB cable Olympus gave you, you could still move your.

DSS format in which the older Olympus devices stored their files-especially since Olympus's updates could not keep pace with the evolution of the Mac OS X's more rapid development schedule. Anyone (like me) who has an Olympus digital voice recorder knows what a pain in the butt can be to deal with the propriety.

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