Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:12:04 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Parke H John Subject: Bird Calls - not Maryland specific - an explanation. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I got a lot of replies on this posting, which I appreciate very much, so I thought an explanation would be helpful. In the beginning: A trip leader at the last MOS conference had a device on his belt that he played bird calls on. After some thought, I decided to try the same thing myself. I had previously tried the same thing on audio cassettes. They worked great, but it was a lot of tedious work. I figured the computer would take the tedium out. Knowing nothing about audio recording on the computer, I investigated it on the internet and talked to the geeks at work. MP3 seemed like the way to go. I probably would not go this way now! I down loaded the software to record the bird call CD into my computer. It's called ripping. I than down loaded the software to edit the bird calls. The software provides a visual display of the CD track (sonogram?). From this, you can cut out the voice, and recopy the calls to make a good long recording. I have different files for every call. I just load the songs into a MP3 player. I ahve a $100 MP3 player that works well with battery powered speakers. This is what I'm trying to optimize. It would be nice to have a compact unit that hung on my belt, but so far, no luck. I've purposely left out some info because I take this very seriously. I am very discreet with my calls and always try to impact the birds as little as possible. If you really interested in details, email me direct. But, there probably are better ways to do this. Thanks again, Parke. pjohn@wlgore.com parke@del.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================