The Olympus DS330 Digital Voice Recorder combines impressive digital voice processing with a compact and ergonomic design. It comes with a USB docking station for fast and straightforward transfer of files to a computer running Widows or Macintosh operating systems. Print article. Review of Olympus DS-330 Digital Voice Recorder. The Olympus DS-330, By Sea Originally published on. Sea reviews his new gadget, necessary.
I just recently purchased a computer with Windows 7 64-bit home edition for my father. His job requires him to use a digital voice recorder to dictate things and email them in to his company in.dss format.
Currently he is using an Olympus DS 330 Voice Recorder to do this on his old Windows XP machine. I called Olympus to make sure the device (an Olympus DS-330 Digital Voice Recorder) would be compatible with Windows 7 BEFORE purchasing the new computer for him. They assured me that 'with version 7.1 of their new software it should be compatible'. I was worried because the rep on the phone with me didn't sound very confident in his answer and him using the word 'should' is never a good thing.
Sure enough I got the new Windows 7 computer running, installed the software they told me to get from their site, connected his player. The device was recognized as being connected BUT no driver could be found. Nothing I've tried the past few hours will work as there just simply is no driver from Olympus or anyone else to make this device work with Windows 7. To make matters worse I cannot find a single digital voice recorder to purchase for him online that IS compatible with Windows 7 Home Edition 64-bit. I thought that this OS wasn't suppose to have any of the 'driver issues' that brought Vista down.
Clearly this isn't the case. Now I'm stuck with a computer my father can't use simply because Windows 7 doesn't seem to find Digital Voice Recorders to be important enough to work with. Anyone have any idea of a voice recorder that will work with windows 7? Yes I looked at that 'Windows Compatibility' website.
So if I can't find one. Looks like we're out $500 thanks a ton Olympus and Windows 7! Thanks for posting that. The compatible ID confirms that it's not just a storage device, so it doesn't just use inbox drivers. So this is not an issue with Windows 7. It's an issue that the hardware vendor would need to resolve.
I searched online for the VID & PID, and found only a few hits on Bing. None of them make any mention of 64-bit support. And they are all pretty old. I see driver dates from 2001. So the best option is to contact Olympus again to see if they have drivers for Vista 64-bit or Windows 7 64-bit for this device, or if they can confirm for you what devices ARE supported on 64-bit. Looks like the driver package above is for their VN series of recorders. This one seems to be relatively cheap - (the VN5200 is even cheaper).
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