I don't know that this is the answer you are looking for, but for my
amphibian recordings I record the locality on my GPS then import the GPS
coordinates to Google Earth.
Then for each GPS locality I rename the marker with the species name and
recording number. Then I add other pertinent information to the properties
box and save it.
I can then create a KML file of all my recording coordinates. If I want t=
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find a particular recording from a spot, I open up google earth, go to that
marker and see what the recorded file name is.
So my google map marker is titled "Anaxyrus speciosus chorus - LS1100123"
and in the properties box I have the time, date, temperature and any other
pertinent information. You can also choose the icon you want to display on
the map. I use one icon for frogs, one for birds, and a third for
environmental sounds.
Not perfect, but I can find any particular recording pretty quickly that
way.
I do like the idea of incorporating the GPS coordinates into the filename,
although I might use decimal degrees rather than DMS.
So I could call a file CWWI_Atascosa_Co_N29.400596_W97.885921_LS1100123.wav=
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Another thought...could you do it with ITunes? Their search function is
pretty good and if you chose your "artists" and "album" and "genre"
categories carefully, you could certainly find stuff easily.
Chris
From:
On Behalf Of Keith
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 6:49 PM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Filing systems/software
Hello, all.
Being a newbie, I thought I'd better ask this question before my mess
gets much bigger. The commercial stuff has been easy;
Client,Date,Project and the audio software does the rest.
For nature and 'found sound', I'm using 2 recorders (661 & HDP2),
numerous mic combinations, and working at many locations. I have no
clients, but would like to keep track of recording purpose and what I've
done to a recording as well as what I do with it. Of course there will
be different situations, species etc., that I'll also want to catalog
and I have no restrictions on what might interest me. Everything from my
refrigerator compressor to beavers under water (and bats eventually) is
fair game. Anyone who witnessed my recent stupidity trying to send Max a
working http link will probably agree that lengthy file names soon cause
more trouble than they are worth.
Both recorders create unique file names (at least numerically
differentiated) and I think I'd like to maintain those file numbers in
some way.
I've been using iMatch for cataloging photographs for the past few years
and it's worked well for me (I'm on Windows). I also use Expert GPS for
geographical tracking of photo's. I carry a Garmin 60Csx with me for
all photo and recording excursions. I shoot RAW + JPEG and use the jpegs
for geo-tagging. I only rename copies of the originals.
I haven't made a decision on software to use for geo-tagging audio files
and I'm not sure if it's really possible to do that with wav's without
messing up the file headers to the extent that some audio software will
balk at them.
IMatch won't play audio files, but it can catalogue wav's and mp3's,
using buddy files, so I can assign a hierarchical set of categories. I
think I can get it to hold GPS coordinates, too, but before I go too far
with this, I'd like to ask for any advice I can get on directory
hierarchies, better methods/software, the many routes to perdition, and
'best practice'.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer!
Keith
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