I also have an iPod and agree with everything that Dean has said.
It's very easy to locate the calls on the CD and you can even make a
playlist to suit Cape York birds for example.
I have a 30GB iPod which whilst more expensive works out alot cheaper
per GB.
I use it also to copy an immediate back-up from my laptop of my
photos when i am on a trip. Saves the time and battery drain of
having to burn back-up discs. Also cheaper than buying a whole heap
of extra memory cards. Especially if you are shooting with a decent
MegaPixel SLR on the RAW setting!
Cheers
David Stowe
Sydney
On 20/07/2006, at 10:33 PM, Dean Cutten wrote:
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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