Interesting. Good to know about this tool.
But I’m not sure it would have helped me in any way? It seems like the best way is to simply sign into the iCloud account on a device and just let everything sync. Then decide what to keep?
I think that’s fair. If you are able to sync to a device and access everything you need using whatever method you’re comfortable with, then I don’t think there is a need to poke around with other tools.
In the end, it sounds like you were only interested in a small number of voice memos. If that is true, it’s not too difficult to manage them one-by-one in the Voice Memos app.
On the other hand, if there are a lot of voice memos, and you wanted to investigate them all, I think the fastest way to do would be to get them in a single folder on your Mac and then use either Quick Look to sample them all (select a file, hit the space bar to play it, then hit an arrow key to select the next file, lather, rinse, repeat) or listen to them via whatever is your favorite audio tool. (Ironically, you used to be able to do that with voice memos in iTunes, but that feature didn’t make it into the Voice Memos app.)
The question of how to get them into one folder is what I tried to answer via my earlier comment with the command line suggestion. @nextstep’s suggestion to use iMazing would let you simply drag and drop the voice memos from an iPhone backup into a folder on your Mac. You also could use iMazing similarly to Quick Look, i.e., access the voice memos in iMazing, and then use the space bar and arrow keys to navigate and play them. (See attached image for what the iMazing v2 interface for doing that looks like. It’s also where you could select all of the voice memos in iMazing and drag them into a folder on your Mac.)
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