Help me document psycho

skruffy wrote: As long as you still get to see your kids and don't pick up a hardcore drug habit keep in mind it could be much worse.

You're right about that. It's the meantime that's not much fun. Listening to her spreading rumors all over town about me being an irresponsible alchoholic who's sleeping with her sister. Fun times! I've got to stay laid back and gentlemanly until the divorce is finalized...else I play into her hand.

Clem

http://www.business-phone-tools.com/cell-phone-recording-device.html

Thanks! I just ordered the olympus phone recording doohickey.

Now I need to pick up a cheap voice recorder and I'll feel a little bit better about the situation.

Appreciate the help!
Clem

jumped into this one a minute late. If your phone has any kind of headphone out (mine has one size smaller than normal), get an adapter that will make it regular size (2mm?). Then get yourself an old fashioned (old as in early 90s ) tape adapter for portable cd players/MP3 players. You can plug it in when she calls, and pop it into any old deck to deck tape player, hit play on the phone adapter tape, and record to a blank tape. Not sure about your end of the conversation, although I think it should get it. probably be cheaper than whatever that is above.

In my car, I can use the adapter in my tape deck to essentially turn my phone into a hands free device using the cars stereo speakers, so I know it works at least with my Nokia.

GL, and try not to get any of that crazy on ya, I hear it stains. Try club soda if you get some on yer shirt

The headphone out jack does not pick up the mic on the phone. In my experience.

The LG phone I have looks to have only some proprietary (read goofy) input/output port.

I figure I can easily put this whole rig together for $50 or less with the Olympus thing. Having to have a voice recorder on hand all the time will be somewhat inconvenient, but I'll take a little inconvenience to get it done cost effectively. Like I say, I probably won't have any use for these recorded conversations, but it sure will help me sleep better (especially since she likes to harrass me when I'd like to be sleeping).

That olympus thing looks like it just picks up the conversation from the earpiece. And, I think, my voice comes through the earpiece of the phone as well during the conversation. So I think I'll be all set up.

Clem

4cylndrfury wrote: GL, and try not to get any of that crazy on ya, I hear it stains. Try club soda if you get some on yer shirt

Noted . So far, it hasn't rubbed off.

You could always use a regular voice recorder and put her on speakerphone.

Get a new phone, don't give her the #, stop answering. She'll be forced back to voicemail.

Mental wrote: Get a new phone, don't give her the #, stop answering. She'll be forced back to voicemail.

Not an option until divorce is final. I've got to show I'm a good father. If she says (she will say that, she is lying) that she ONLY calls me to talk about the children and that I refuse to communicate...that's bad.

So, for now, I take my lumps and try to cover my backside.

If I don't answer the phone for a while, she shows up and breaks out my windows. True story.

Clem

You know you are recording the phone so that is not a wiretap. As long as one party knows it's legal.

And as to no Judge listening to phone conversations - phone conversations that I recorded between me and one of my contractors saved me over $20,000 and got a lien removed.

carguy123 wrote: You know you are recording the phone so that is not a wiretap. As long as one party knows it's legal.

depends state to state - better check your local laws to be sure before you start recording.

ClemSparks wrote: If I don't answer the phone for a while, she shows up and breaks out my windows. True story. Clem

I"d find some way to video tape that or get her arrested for that....

That would be grounds for self defense where i am, and if i had a gun, i would probably get away with plugging the culprit one with no problems.

Not that i'm saying it's a good idea.... but just sayin'.

In reply to 93celicaGT2:

i was going to say the same thing

And they actually work quite well on regular phones, surprisingly enough, so I would assume they would be fine for a mobile. And they're cheap - like $10.

Good luck, man.

So I got my olympus telephone recorder thing in the mail yesterday and then went out shopping for voice recorders. I got a cheap electronic one (no tape) because that was the cheapest there was. It doesn't have any way to transfer the media electronically (not a huge deal because I can always just play it back into a microphone if I need to back it up).

This got me to thinking...the device I have seems strangely similar to an ipod. (note, I've not owned an ipod...but I wouldn't mind owning one). That is to say, it's a digital, audio storage and playback device.

Ok...so...that makes me wonder if an ipod would be a suitable voice recorder for my needs. Doe they make ipods with mic inputs? What would one of those set me back if it would work?

I'd just as soon buy something that I could actually use after the psycho documentation project is over (hopefully it'll be over someday ;)).

Clem

I don't know about an ipod, but some mp3 plays to have the ability to record. I discovered that when my wife somehow accidentily activated hers and recorded 38 minutes of inane chatter while she was in the car.

you can buy a mic that plugs into the doc connector on an ipod, and use it to record audio. a guy that sat near me in one of my classes used to use it to record lectures.

Thanks for the help so far folks...I have another question regarding this voice recorder I've got.

I've filled it up (100 files...they're not all psycho) and would like to get the information onto my computer (and/or a CD) for storage. Then I can delete the audio files off the voice recorder and be able to record more conversations.

The voice recorder has a headphone-out jack. My laptop has a mic-in jack. Could I just go to radio shack or wherever, get a plug to fit each of the jacks, and then wire them together? It would seem to me that that might be a way to transfer the data from the voice recorder to the laptop.

If so...then how do I go about (software wise) recording it onto my laptop?

Little help?

Thanks, Clem

Does the voice recorder use cassettes?

The software you're looking for is called Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net. Should be able to handle what you have in mind pretty easily, and it's free and open source.

Tmo at least, keeps records of what was sent via text.

szeis4cookie wrote: The software you're looking for is called Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net. Should be able to handle what you have in mind pretty easily, and it's free and open source.

What he said.

Make sure the mic input isn't muted on your computer and check the sound level too.

16vCorey wrote: I don't know about transferring texts, but if you can't find a good way to do it, you can always just take a picture of your cell phone with the texts on the screen.

Unless you have a court authorized photographer this is a no go. They are available at ~300$ a hour. Text messages are very easy to forge so don't put to much weight on them with the court.

IANAL

They ARE easy to forge.... but if you can reconcile them with your phone records.... that will help you a ton.