THE HACKER ATTITUDE

Today a friend of mine in workplace asked for my help to recover his lost audio files which in his audio recorder. I was just copied all the files in his recorder to my PC and tried to play them, but I couldn't find a single newly recorded audio file. Then I did a test record just to check. It seems like file does not save at all. This is weird I thought. Instantly, I noticed there were some strange files with .act extension also have stored in same folder. I realized that my friend had changed saving file type 'wav' to 'act' without knowing that he would not be able to play the recording in any player.

Later on, I got to know that ACT file is an audio format which uses to compress the recording by some mp3 players or voice recorders using Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation. However, many model of recorders use the ACT format to do so, only on their long and lowest-quality recording setting.

Basically, ACT files difficult to convert to a playable file format such as MP3, AVI, etc. because it is difficult to find suitable program to convert it. However, I could find couple of smart software to do so, which I am going to share with you now.

Go to following link and download "Actionvert.zip". This simple application is perfectly working in Windows.

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/paradoxsm/2598

Try this one also but I have not had a chance to use this application. So I can not ensure that this will work for "act".

Check newer version: