I agree with Rich that "a chorus from anytime within the year 2003" might
attract more participation. I'd be happy to submit something from eastern
Australia. But a three minute recording is too big for me to send even as
mp3, and certainly the thought of downloading a whole batch of really long
recordings from others would send my feeble internet connection into
hysterics.=20
What are people's thoughts on turning the 3 minute sequences into a CD (or
two or three?) Maybe we could have short extracts on a web site and a
longer version on CD? Those people with slow connections could simply
snail-mail their contribution to the compiler. I'd love to hear sample
recordings from naturerecordist members around the world, everything from a=
n
"all-day-dawn" recording from Barb, to frogs-at-night from Walt, and
everything in between. (No strict rule on "dawn" obviously).
Our summer here (January-Feb) was so drought stricken that not even any
insects were making sound, let alone birds. The air was depressingly silen=
t
and full of dust and heat and smoke from wildfires. It is winter here now,
and quite cold. Hopefully spring will see some decent rainfall and a retur=
n
to more normal weather patterns, and some birdsong!
Vicki Powys
Australia
on 3/7/03 5:33 AM, Rich Peet at wrote:
> I will always resist RealAudio. To say that I hate the product and
> company policies is an understatement. If it is in RealAudio I will
> never be able to listen to it.
>
> Since dawn chorus or any full chorus is such a hard event for most,
> maybe the best way is to open it up for a 3 min. submission of chorus
> from anytime within the year 2003. We might increase participation
> that way and be able to accomodate both hemispheres.
>
> I would like to see more than 20 submissions at about 3 mins. each.
> I could host it in both wave and mp3 and still come in under 4 gigs.
> I don't write html well like greg though. I'm sure my sponsor for
> non-commercial natural sound can handle that space on its fast
> server. Maybe you want me to provide space to link to from somewhere
> else.
>
> --- In "Ranft, Richard"
> <> wrote:
>> Dominique raised the issue of hosting Dawn Chorus 2003 recordings:
>>
>>>> For those who are less fortunate in terms of server space, it
> should be
>> fairly simple to find a web
>>>> site or a ftp site in an educational organization that could lend
> us the
>> space for a while...
>>
>> I would be interested in principle in hosting the sounds (and
> archiving and
>> labelling etc them) on the British Library site. We have the
> server space,
>> audio editors, encoders etc. The main proviso is that the sounds
> would be
>> converted to RealAudio format, which some of you might say is not
> your
>> favourite audio file type... The advantage however is that I can
> host the
>> longer recordings you are interested in, and the listener who has
> the free
>> RealAudio player and plugins can hear the sounds right away without
> waiting
>> for downloads. I can accept files in most audio formats (even wax
> cylinder,
>> wire, if you wish!) and do the conversion here. What do others
> think?
>>
>> Richard Ranft=20=20
>> Curator, Wildlife Section,
>> The British Library Sound Archive,
>> 96 Euston Road,
>> London NWI 2DB, UK.
>> email:
>> WWW pages with fully-searchable on-line catalogue at:
>> http://www.bl.uk/soundarchive
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>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Laloux, Dominique
>>> Sent: 02 July 2003 19:49
>>> To:
>>> Subject: [Nature Recordists] Apologies for silence
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I must apologize to Klas, Chris, Martyn, Greg, and anyone
>>> else who replied
>>> to my suggestion to run another Dawn Chorus Day this year...
>>> I lost contact
>>> with the group either on Friday or sometime at the weekend.
>>> It looks like
>>> messages have been refused by my mail server and I was simply
>>> removed from
>>> the list by the Yahoo server.
>>>
>>> Doug tells me that perhaps that was due to a change in an
>>> email filter that
>>> was done last week at the office. I just switched to another
>>> email address.
>>>
>>> I am still very much interested in the idea of another Dawn
>>> Chorus Day.
>>>
>>> I'll jot down a few ideas in a new thread...
>>>
>>> Dominique Laloux
>>>
>>>
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