Hi Mitch,
Re your link
http://www.4shared.com/dir/UTASxktL/wildlife.html
Sharing of sounds on websites is new to me too! I haven't done it
before (other than xeno-canto) so you are one step ahead of me. But
I am happy to give feedback.
I have now figured out the 4shared downloading process, there are 4-5
clicking processes to be done before you get the file, so it is easy
to get lost on the way until you know the procedure. I hate the
flashing ads, they just add to the confusion. Sound Cloud was better
in this regard, the ads were less obvious.
I had only played two of your files, Blue Jay 1 and Oriole 4, and
both had sound only in left hand channel. Blue Jay 1 now has sound
in both channels (did you change it?), but Oriole (which I
downloaded) shows that there is sound only in the left hand channel. =
You should be able to make a 'dual mono' file quite easily with your
software, so that the sound plays in both channels.
Cardinal and Blue Jay 2 sounded fine and I could download them to my
computer.
It is great to see your enthusiasm, and good luck with species
recordings with your new set up! The sounds I've heard so far are
very good.
best wishes,
Vicki
On 07/06/2010, at 11:04 AM, Mitch Hill wrote:
> At 09:42 AM 6/7/2010 +1000, you wrote:
>> Hi Mitch,
>>
>> I tried your '4shared' link and could listen to your sounds, but
>> could not download them. The sound played only in the left hand side
>> of my headphones. I had to click once on the file, then again on
>> download button (to hear the sound), with another option to
>> 'download' apparently to my computer. So I clicked that and the
>> countdown began but at the end of 10 seconds or whatever, there was
>> no mp3 file to be found on my desktop, nor on my computer anywhere.
>> One of the tech-savvy chaps might know why the download did not
>> work? (I'm on a Mac).
>
> Hi Vicki,
>
> Thank you for trying the new file storage system, (new to me that is).
>
> Yours is the first feedback I've received, I'm glad you were able to
> access the MP3 files and the streaming sound work. As to the
> download
> feature, I'm puzzled, I'll have to check with my brother, he was my
> Guinea
> pig for testing and I thought he tried the file download, I'll have to
> follow up on that. He lives on the other end of the East Coast from
> where I
> am, and sometimes we don't communicate as clearly on the phone as we
> should...
>
> It may be as simple as me not setting the access permissions
> correctly...
>
> As to not hearing sound in both channels, I'll have to check that.
> When I
> listened to it here, I was pretty sure I did hear sound in both
> channels
> however not all the files are stereo. The MKE 300 microphone I have is
> strictly mono, but what I have recorded with the LS-11's own mics
> is stereo
> and the ME 66/K6 mic is wired to both channels even though it is a
> monaural
> mic so should have sound in both ears.
>
> MP3 file BlueJay01 was recorded with the MKE 300 which is strictly
> mono
> however I thought the sound was in the right channel but am not sure.
>
> MP3 file Bluejay02 was recorded with the ME66/K6 mic and should be
> sound in
> both channels.
>
> TF_Robin was recorded with the LS-11 mics and should be stereo.
>
> Cardinal01 was recorded with the ME66/K6 same as BlueJay02 using
> the same
> setup.
>
> Cardinal03 was also recorded with the ME66/K6 and has sound in both
> channels.
>
> After supper, I ran a few tests, I did not log in using my
> administrator
> access login, instead I used the link which takes you directly into
> the
> wildlife folder so as to test and I was able to download the
> Cardinal03
> file without any trouble and confirmed the sound in both channels
> of the
> files as listed above.
>
> I will have to look into a means of saving mono single channel
> files so
> that the sound is on both channels, my brother commented about that
> to me
> and I'm going to have to look at the manual for the sound editing
> package I
> use, I'm pretty sure it can be done. Seems to me I noticed a
> channel copy
> command on one of the menus for doing that but have not explored it
> yet.
>
> One thing I did notice is that the "4shared" download function
> takes 17
> seconds to initialize and then you get a box in which you have to
> click a
> button to start the download... Its a slow process to get started but
> seems to work well. How much of that is my old slow computer is
> another
> question. It may be faster on a newer faster computer...
>
> The alternate is I can supply links to individual files however I
> think you
> will still have to go through the same process.
>
> Vicki, again, may thanks for the test and the feedback... I'd
> suggest you
> try it again and use the Cardinal03.mp3 file as its short and I
> know the
> sound is in both channels...
>
>
> --
>
> Thanks,
> Mitch & Shadow...
>
>
>
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