I don't baulk at the price of the BOCA CD series, but I do despair at the
user-unfriendly format and content (specifically, the species announcements).
The first thing I do when I got my hands on them is convert the files to
electronic format for my ipod, and the second is waste hours editing out the
announcements and indexing the files. I'm not sure if its legal for me to do
that but if BOCA won't meet modern birders halfway then what do they
expect? Whoever owns the rights to the BOCA complete bird calls series is
really missing a trick- most birder I know are desperate for downloadable bird
calls which they can either mix and match for their region or which have been
bundled with a good field guide into an iphone/ipod app such as is commonly
available in the US and Europe (go see the birdguides.com product list if you
don't know what I'm talking about). You would have to charge less that $200 for
it but the increase in sales will more than make up
for it!
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