Hi Peter,
There is a limited range of calls in this format on
http://www.xeno-canto.org/Australasia. Xeno-canto relies entirely on user
submitted recordings, so the best way to improve the database is for those who
are interested in bird call to start recording and submit recordings to the
database.
You can edit the CD calls using something like the free cross platform sound
editor Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ There is a nice
sonogram/spectrum view which make it very easy to identify the gaps between
calls and also allows you to visualise the details of the call which can make
learn the subtle differences much more easily discernible.
A fantastic book for understanding songrams and bird call is The Sound Approach
to Birding by Mark Constantine ( http://www.soundapproach.co.uk ) . The
examples are primarily European but I haven't seen the information presented in
such a reader friendly way before. Andrew Isles appears to have this book
available.
cheers
Paul
On 11/05/2010, at 4:55 AM, Peter Shute wrote:
> I knew there would be some kind of impediment to it.
>
> My own incentive for splitting up the tracks is not for playback but to help
> me compare and learn calls. I find it difficult to compare calls of similar
> sounding species when there is a long delay between them, worse when they're
> separated by another sound, e.g. a human voice.
>
> The ideal solution would be a player that can create playlists of partial
> tracks, but I haven't been able to find one. I guess they're all intended for
> music tracks, and there's no reason to play anything but the whole track of
> those.
>
> Peter Shute
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