I have about 25 Voice messages from my iPhone 5S and I downloaded the M4A sound files to my computer, but the did not retain the actual file name that I named it on my iPhone 5S. Most of the file names are numbers (dates recorded?). For example 20140413172054.m4a. Can anyone suggest how I could get the original file name from my iPhone 5S? I know that all the pictures from mostly all phones has all that information in it. I would appreciate any and all suggestions.
Thank You.
David
Anything in the music tags for those files?
Sorry for being away so long. I have my 75 year old mother to take care of including myself.
Any ways, there is nothing, nada, in the music tags. That's where the first places I looked.
Thanks
Seems you are not alone, at least: Apple Support Communities: How can I apply Voice Memo "Titles" to the actual .m4a files as Tags?
Unfortunately, no answer there, so it just confirms the problem and that the metadata for the files is stored in a database separate from the files (good old iTunes 
).
iTunes does, or at least did, have a COM API that allowed programs, and possibly scripts, to talk to it and get info out of its database. I'm not 100% sure if that's still true of current versions. The documentation I can find dates back to iTunes 8, which is quite old now, but it sounds like the official docs are/were only available from Apple if you have an Apple developer account (not sure if that is free or not). If that API still exists, it might be a way to get the information.
(I used the iTunes COM API myself a few years ago, but the link to the docs I used back then now diverts you to a generic XCode page.)
Asking on sites like Stackoverflow, the Apple support forums, and maybe somewhere with audio-software experts like Hydrogenaudio, might be your best bet for finding someone who knows if & how it's possible. Maybe there's a tool out there already which does this.
Good luck, and I hope your mother is doing OK too, and that you have enough time/energy to look after yourself (easy to neglect!).