# Saving voicemails to MP3 format

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-voicemails-to-mp3-format/384191>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 14, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-voicemails-to-mp3-format/384191 "2006-12-14T21:42:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-voicemails-to-mp3-format/384191/1 "2006-12-14T21:42:00Z")

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I have a number of messages in my cell phone voice mail that I’d like to save to MP3 format and keep for a long time. The people from Verizon (who, in order for this OP to not devolve into a pit rant, I shall otherwise leave out of this) and who have these stored on their server, cannot apparently do this for me.

So, how can I get these saved away from Verizon?

Can I use Skype, call my VM with my computer, listen to these messages and simultaneously save them to the HD? if so, how?

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**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saving-voicemails-to-mp3-format/384191/2 "2006-12-14T21:51:58Z")

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Yep, the easiest is probably with Skype. Use their call recording feature. It’s in the options. You’ll need to go in later with an audio editor (like [Audacity](http://audacity.sourceforge.net)) to chop the recording up into separate files (if that’s what you want).

You can also do this with phone software if you use a Treo.