OK. I'll check this out. Right now, there a pair of great horned owls
right outside my lab and I gonna have a conversation with them.
BK
>From: Wild Sanctuary <>
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>> Excellent points, Walt. And I agree with all of them. It took me
>> nearly 15 minutes to download one of our 90 second samples when I was
>> checking things out and that's way too long. I'm gonna contact our
>> web manager and see what we can do about this. Although I think the
>> MP3s are now at their lowest setting we have (128kbps) but I'm not
>> sure of that.
>>
>> Lemme see what I can do (or not).
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>I don't know for your material, but I'm using settings way lower on some
>ID calls. I just checked one and it's 40kbps vbr, yet sounds just fine.
>Of course for those clips I use mono. That particular sample (bullfrog)
>took me 30 seconds to download on a not particularly good modem
>connection. It's about 30 seconds in length and 180k. If it were stereo
>it would have to be up somewhere around 80kbps or so.
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>It's going to be hard to do this through a web manager. They won't know
>exactly how the clip should sound. When I did mine I kept coming back to
>them after several days away to keep my ear from getting trained. Just
>like other kinds of sound editing. I played around for a couple months
>before putting them up.
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>Note the clips I have listened to sound just fine. You could probably
>shorten the length a bit on some, 90 seconds is a long time for a sample.
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>Walt
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