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Re: Presenting sounds on the internet

Subject: Re: Presenting sounds on the internet
From: "Rich Peet" <>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:41:12 -0000
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

--- In  "Rick Johnson" <>
wrote:
>
> 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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