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Sound alone Michael Morcombe

To: Ian Reid <>
Subject: Sound alone Michael Morcombe
From: Russ <>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 10:16:13 +1100
Thanks for providing some technical assistance, Ian. I should add a
comment, though, that anyone considering doing this might want to check
whether or not it is legal to copy the MP3 files between devices. It's not
format shifting, because the files stay as MP3s. If they own a digital copy
of the guide then they are allowed to install the whole guide on at least
two or three of their own devices (e.g. tablet, phone) but I don't know
whether or not extracting audio files breaches copyright. As administrator
of this list, I highly recommend that anyone thinking about doing this
checks both the copyright info of the app itself, as well as the user
agreement of the Android Store (or App Store). I don't want anyone to think
that we are condoning copyright breaches on this forum!

Can I also say that I love the Morecombe App and use the calls feature all
the time to identify calls I hear (I'm hopeless with calls, an embarrassing
confession for a musician!)

Russell Woodford
Birding-Aus Founder

On 31 January 2013 22:18, Ian Reid <> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> it's taken me a while to reply to this having been immersed in work, but I
> did some hunting and found that yes, it is possible to get the mp3s from
> Morcombe (at least the Android version) and put them on an iPod or other
> mp3 player.  *But* you'd need to be tech savvy and prepared to spend quite
> a bit of time labelling them.
>
> The files are stored on the sdcard of my phone in a directory called
> eProducts/AusBirds and are all named *.edf.  You need to copy these files
> onto your PC and upkack them to get the mp3s. This helpful site:
>
>     
> http://emergent.unpythonic.**net/01354324334<http://emergent.unpythonic.net/01354324334>
>
> (which is where I got all the above info) even has a small python script
> that will unpack the edf files into the constituent jpg and mp3 files.
>
> However the mp3 files do not seem to have the bird names embedded which
> means you need to name and/or label them manually, unless you are whizz
> with SQL and can write a script to do it automatically.
>
> Cheers, Ian
>
> PS.  xeno-canto is a *fantastic* resource, but under-represented in
> Australia.
>
>
>
> On 13/01/2013 08:20, Dave Torr wrote:
>
>> http://www.xeno-canto.org/ is a good source of calls and has the
>> advantage
>> of being legal! There are a few caveats - it has quite a few different
>> calls of some species (so it takes some effort to decide which you want),
>> it does not have a full range of Aussie species and as far as I know it is
>> not moderated so I guess the identity of calls is not verified - although
>> the ones I have used have been good. It also tells you where a call has
>> been made, which can be helpful if you are trying to track down the local
>> subspecies
>>
>>
>>  On 12 January 2013 10:20, Aidan Sudbury <>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Does anyone know how to (or if it's possible) to put just the sounds
>>>> from
>>>> the Michale Morcombe guide onto an older Ipod without a touch screen?
>>>>
>>>> Aidan Sudbury
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