mda to mp3 converter needed

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  1. Crashnburn

    Crashnburn Cleared for Takeoff

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    My wife recently passed and I'd like to preserve some of her voice mails a friend texted me. I emailed the audio files to my windows computer, but it doesn't recognize the iPhone's mda format. I did a quick internet search and didn't come up with a mda to mp3 converter. I'm hoping someone here can help.

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  2. Salty

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    See if audacity can open them. If so, it can export to whatever you want. I can't find anything that explicitly says it can, but I'd be surprised if it can't.
    https://www.audacityteam.org/
     
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    Turns out it can't but http://ffmpeg.org/ can

    ffmpeg -i voicemail-148.m4a voicemail-148.mp3
     
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    mda file?
     
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  6. Crashnburn

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    Wow, Thanks Salty. Audacity works for me.