Regarding the idea of "drawing a box around a signal," I suppose that
I meant that it would be nice to tag noises in an audio file (long or
short) much like one tags friends in a Facebook image. Essentially I
envision dragging a courser (a cream-colored courser of course) around
a sound (a frog's 'peep' or a sandpiper's 'churt' or an owl's 'who's
awake? me too') and being able to fill in metadata such as species,
sex, age, behavioral context and other parameters that XC already
allows. Of course, the file will already have been date, time,
latitude, longitude, elevation stamped. So say if one wanted to search
for call notes of long-billed murrelet (I know there aren't any), one
put that in the search box and bam up come up 25,50,100 thumbnails of
sonogram images scaled to just the call or call phrase (these images
would perhaps be squares much like google image search displays their
search results). When the courser hovers over the image it expands to
full resolution. With all the metadata in a table off to one side. If
one clicks the sonogram it plays just the call.
Dream dream dream....
Flock on!
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