Cell phone attachments

May 4, 2004 8:22 PM

My sister sent me something using her cell phone, and I can't play it. [you will find more if you go inside]

I can view the pictures from her camera phone, but today she also attached some kind of voice message that showed up as an extra e-mail attachment with the extension .qcp

I'm running Mac OS X 10.3 here with the latest version of Quicktime, and I see that .qcp is a MIME type that my Quicktime preference pane says Quicktime should be able to handle. But no, the icon is a blank document and no application I have on here will open the file. Changing the extension to something predictable like .wav hasn't helped, either.

Qualcomm makes something called PureVoice, which records and plays .qcp files. The latest version for the Mac is rather old, though maybe it would run under Classic. If I could download it, that is. Every download link I've found on every site I have checked has pointed me to an FTP site maintained by Qualcomm, and after repeated tries I still can't get in. Does anyone have a copy of it that they could put up somewhere or shoot me via e-mail? Barring that, why can't I play the file using Quicktime like I should theoretically be able to do?

posted by emelenjr to technology (5 comments total)

Qualcomm Purevoice for Mac, right at the top when googling for "qualcomm purevoice" (no quotes). If the link doesn't work, check your browser settings, you may need to enable passive mode ftp if you're behind a NAT gateway or restrictive firewall.
posted by fvw at 9:01 PM on May 4, 2004

Thanks fvw, but as I said in the first post every site I had found had pointed me to that same FTP site you unearthed, which seems to be bogged down by traffic so my connection to get the file never goes through.
posted by emelenjr at 9:24 PM on May 4, 2004

And... we're done here. Stupid me didn't remember that I could mount FTP servers right on the desktop instead of trying to get to them in a web browser. Server mounted, PureVoice downloaded (and it runs in Classic, luckily). The sound file was a new kitten, for anyone dying to know.
posted by emelenjr at 9:54 PM on May 4, 2004

No self-deprecation necessary, emelenjr. I daresay that for many of us, figuring out this puzzle would have taken a good bit longer than an hour and a half.

(and it runs in Classic, luckily)
This confuses me, and I'm an OS X devotee. Does PureVoice not run under 10.3?

Many years of happiness to your sister and her new kitten, regardless. :-)
posted by Alylex at 10:13 PM on May 4, 2004

PureVoice isn't a native OS X app. The version available for download was for OS 7, 8 or 9, and development seems to have stopped. It ran fine in Classic on top of 10.3, though. I knew I'd find a reason not to get rid of OS 9.
posted by emelenjr at 11:03 PM on May 4, 2004