Upon launch it states that an installation of version 7 is required. Then it quits. Version 7 is there. I agree - testing prior to deployment and support for this app on a Mac is sadly lacking. Apparently lost in translation. Can't rate it if it doesn't launch. OS 10.5.8 / Intel MacPro. I always have to revert to version 6.x, which is barely usable.

Thanks bosskev for the heads-up on the near uselessness of this release. One is left to wonder about the lapse of mind within those creating a software package requiring almost ten times the space it should reasonably need while neglecting support for some rather pricey related hardware products that were current less than a year ago and are still sold as new by mass-marketers round the globe. It would greatly surprise me to learn that a more usable, better engineered app could not have been written in 9-30 mb that didn't support every DS-player Olympus has made to date. Frankly, it's absurd to think otherwise.

While it is true that Olympus has continued to uphold their good name in the cameras they produce, so far as the Macintosh side of their business is concerned at least, their software has steadily gone from the bemusingly bad to tragically worse. Instead of enabling longtime and long-suffering DS users to move DS access to their ICBMs, Oly' ships this offensively half-thawed mammoth. Something tells me, this following on the equally preposterous recent travesty that was Olympus Master 2, we have yet to reach the nadir of Olympus' ill-considered software design. They seem to be on a roll. Another most disheartening event from a company I have for several decades had only the greatest respect. It causes me shame to watch this decline.

Note that using an app such as Pacifist will allow you to extract some components from this package which will assist you in having some manipulative access to DSS files on PowerPC & x86.

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I love this unit. I'm a song writer and story teller and it has changed the way I catalog ideas because of SIZE and CONVENIENCE. It fits easily in my pouch with my cell phone, it's always handy, the software is easy to use and I can download quickly. I can convert files to AIF so they're compatible with my DAW software (Digital Performer-Mac OSX). The FIDELITY is good enough to record several instruments and hear clearly the details. It has several handy features, like if you're listening to an entry and want to comment on it, you can record a new entry, then when you go back to the original entry it plays from where you stopped, not the beginning.