I would just like to follow on with the recent thread on the usefullness of
PDAs in birding with reference to an iPod to store bird songs and calls. I
recently bought the Apple nano iPod with 4GB of memory to use in the field
to allow one to pull up a bird song or call to confirm or otherwise the ID
of a bird. A particular bird species can be located very quickly in the menu
list where the songs can be stored in 'playlists'. I have put 5 of the BOCA
CD's on the iPod creating a playlist for each CD (and still have plenty of
free memory). This can be done through the software program 'iTunes' (that
comes with the iPod) which is loaded onto a PC and connects with the iPod
via
the USB. If one wants to edit out any speech there is a free program called
'Audacity' that can be downloaded. The bird song files need to be in MP3
format for this program to work. Conversion to MP3 from the CD format is
done in iTunes. If broadcasting is required in the field the iPod can be
connected to a small active speaker system. (It comes with small earphones.)
The convenience of having all the songs stored in such a small unit makes it
a very attractive unit for birding. It is possible some songs might have
subtle changes made to them after being converted to digital format but I
think these would not be very extensive.
Dean Cutten
Victor Harbor, SA
Australia
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