Phil:

That's a good question, Phil, and the answer is that songs and calls 
are on the same track -- same as the original tracks on the Stokes 
CD's, except that the voice intro is cut out.

I recently found this out, as I just last week ripped my Stokes CD's 
with the BirdJam software.  I am already thinking about doing some 
editing myself and augmenting what BirdJam put into my iPod.  For 
example, I would like most owl tracks to have just hooting on them -- 
not the sound of youngsters in the nest and other ancillary 
noises.  Editing tracks is pretty easy -- lots of software around 
that can help you do the job --  but of course it can be very time 
consuming if hundreds of species are involved, which is why BirdJam 
started in business in the first place.

I don't know of any other available software capability to separate 
songs and calls.  But then I haven't long known about BirdJam.

Mike Bowen
Bethesda


At 01:55 PM 1/3/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>MD Osprey:
>
>Does Birdjam separate calls from songs? Anyone know an off-the-shelf 
>capability to do this?
>
>Phil
>
>At 11:04 01/03/2008, Monroe Harden wrote:
>>The birdjam software strips the human voice intros from each bird 
>>song/call. It also arranges them into playlists by habitat, type of 
>>bird, etc.  I am sure someone with enough time and a proper set of 
>>MP3 burning and editing software could do this themselves, but 
>>birdjam does it in a few minutes, automatically.
>>
>>So the 99 bucks buys you convenience and speed.
>
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