Welcome, you are one of 5 that I know of from the Cornell Lab
workshop of 2001 that read this list. I am on of the obscure from
that group.
Good luck on your web site. I still can not figure out the visual
stuff as you have.
Rich
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> About ten days ago there was a discussion on this list server
> about presenting bird songs on the web using HTML and mp3 files
> as compared to using Quicktime. I want to mention another
> option, using Flash. Before getting into that, let me start with
> an introduction, since this is my first posting.
>
> I am Rick Johnson of Inverness, California. I started recording
> by attending the Cornell Lab sound recording workshop in the
> Sierras in 2001. Thanks to Greg Budney, Randy Little, and David
> Herr for getting me started on what has turned out to be a
> fantastic journey. Once I started paying attention, I noticed so
> many more sounds, both pleasant natural sounds and irritating man
> made sounds. I also like to do video recording although in any
> given scene I usually concentrate on one or the other. I use a
> Sennheiser ME 67 mic and Marantz PMD222 recorder, and have been
> satisfied with the set up. Most of my work experience has been in
> product development for application software companies.
>
> Eighteen months ago I decided to build an on-line Introduction to
> Bird Songs. I considered using HTML and MP3, Quicktime, or Java.
> None of them really gave me what I wanted in terms of designing a
> responsive, graphical user experience. I decided to use
> Macromedia's Flash. Flash allows you to mix in images,
> animations, along with sounds. Flash does a great job at
> compression and at providing portability to most browsers and
> platforms (PC and MAC).
>
> You can check out the results at my web site, www.hearbirds.com.
> On the home page there is a simple example to play a Hermit
> Thrush song. In the lower right section of the home page there
> is a link to test your Flash version and that leads to a site
> where you can get the needed free plug-in, if necessary. There
> are more complex examples too.
>
> This next link goes to an article that talks about spectrograms
> and illustrates one for a Green-tailed Towhee recording:
> http://www.hearbirds.com/content/sono1.htm
>
> This next page has a demo of the types of recordings used in the
> course:
> http://www.hearbirds.com/content/dstart.asp
>
> HTML and MP3 seems to be the best way to build a catalog of
> sounds and to share them. But if you want to build something
> more graphical and mix in other media, Flash does a great job.
>
> Rick Johnson
> Osprey Ridge Studio
> P.O. Box 981
> Inverness, CA 94937
> Email:
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