Regarding editing out the announcements, I assume they would have been provided
as separate tracks, but there's a limit of 99 tracks in the CD format, so it
would have meant twice as many CDs. Even more if it had been broken up into
separate tracks for subspecies and call types.
I'm not sure what you mean by indexing the files. When I ripped mine to mp3,
most were named automatically, I think I only had to do one or two CDs. I can
look them up by volume and track numbers, or by species name. Apart from
splitting the tracks up, I'm not sure what else I'd want.
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Mark Carter
> Sent: Monday, 10 May 2010 4:06 PM
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] re: bird calls
>
> 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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