Urgent request for voicemail to cd help

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A good friend of mine lost his dad yesterday and the funeral is this weekend. I have a voicemail on my verizon cell phone of his dad playing guitar from several years ago, and I would like to convert it to cd for his family. Can anyone advise me on how to do this, or better yet, of a company in Houston that could do it for me?

Thanks for any help.
 
i'd think if you have an audio input line on your computer you could find a cable from radio shack and punch it into your headset jack on your phone and record it directly into your computer.
 
I do have an audio input (at least I think that's what the one with the little microphone icon is). Can you give me some further instruction on how to do the transfer? The voicemail is just saved normally (i.e. I pressed 9 to save), so it's not on an audio card (which I don't have). If you haven't already guessed, I'm not especially technically savvy. Thanks very much for your help.
 
i wish i could help you but i seriously don't know how it would be done on a windows machine. it seems you have a microphone input. i'm assuming that's not just there for no reason. if you could find a cable that could connect your phones headphone jack to the mic jack on your computer you'd just need to find an application that could record sound from the mic input.
 
I run a spy shop in FW, & I routinely have to transfer voice mails to CD. The best way to do this is to transfer the message to a digital recorder, then download it to the PC. This sounds a lot more complicated than it really is, but the key is getting it from your phone to a recorder. I don't deal with them personally, but I know of a spy shop in Houston that I could talk to for you if necessary. I will PM with my contact info...
 
Thanks everyone for the replies. I did call Verizon, and they suggested playing the message on speaker into a microphone plugged into my laptop. I expect I'll need some software to do this, so if anyone has ideas there, that would help.

SpyStud13...I'll PM you...thanks. In case SpyStud13's connection can't help today, I'd appreciate any suggestions for any software or methods I might need to record the voicemail into a microphone.

thanks!
 
Well, scratch that... I just called Spy Emporium on Westheimer in Houston, & I might as well have been talking to my shoe. I specifically asked the guy what he would do if a paying customer walked into his store & asked to have a cell phone voice mail message put onto a CD, & I don't think he has stopped stammering yet. In other words, they ******* suck. This is a standard procedure that every spy store in America should offer. We charge a whopping $10 for the service.

The OP has emailed me, so I will take care of him.
 
Another option is to buy a mini-stereo jack cable with two male ends at radio shack. Plug one end into the headphone jack on your phone and the other end into the micro-phone in jack on your computer. Windows has a default sound recorder or you can download one.
 
spystud was kind enough to do the conversion for me and email me the file. Thanks very much spystud - I know the family is going to be greatful to hear Ray and his guitar one last time.

Thanks everyone else for your suggestions and help.

Hook 'em
 
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