Comments for jjongsma

Comment on soundprint by Brian

Brian — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:17:36 +0000

Hello. I came here via a Google search for bird vocalizations. I then recognized your name as being on many ebird submissions. Most of these were from Powderhorn Park.

I’m a first year birder who has checked out Powderhorn a couple times and have never seen much of anything other than a lot of Wood ducks. You seem to be seeing a lot of interesting Warblers there.

Can you tell me what area of the park you have had the most luck? Or perhaps we can meetup sometime there.

Thanks much.

Brian

Comment on soundprint by jonner

jonner — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:58:11 +0000

Actually, almost all of the audio files that I use are at xeno-canto.org (which is a fabulous resource for anyone that has any interest in bird song), so they’re all licensed under Creative Commons licenses, and I’m fairly sure that the wikipedia birds project is well aware of xeno-canto already. Unfortunately the standard xeno-canto license is more restrictive than I’d like, so all recordings that I’ve actually uploaded are also licensed under a more permissive license (share-alike).

As for the spectrograms, I don’t actually upload them anywhere. This program is just to make thumbnail icons so that I can recognize the files more easily in the file manager.

Comment on soundprint by Sumana Harihareswara

Sumana Harihareswara — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:03:37 +0000

Thanks! I mentioned your project here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Birds#Bird_photo_and_birdcall_recording_source and was wondering whether the birdcalls and your spectrograms are uploaded somewhere, freely licensed, so they, too, can be used on Commons. Thanks!

Comment on soundprint by bt

bt — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:25:25 +0000

That’s amazing, something original. Nice work!

Comment on soundprint by jonner

jonner — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:57:04 +0000

Unfortunately, I don’t. I do license them so others can upload them there though!

Comment on soundprint by jonner

jonner — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:38:14 +0000

I know some people like the rainbow color scale, but to me it makes the spectrogram almost useless, because I can’t instinctively tell the difference in amplitude between e.g. bright green and a bright red. I need to go check the legend to figure out which color is supposed to represent a higher amplitude. On the other hand, I can instinctively tell the difference in amplitude between dark black and white (or gray) with a very brief glance. In fact, you may notice that in the post I linked to a bug about the modifications I made to spek. That patch was actually to switch from a rainbow color scheme to a monochrome scheme

Comment on soundprint by Sumana Harihareswara

Sumana Harihareswara — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:31:40 +0000

So neat! Do you make a habit of uploading this stuff into Wikimedia Commons, too?

Your footnote was very funny.

Comment on soundprint by Thiago Teixeira

Thiago Teixeira — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:59:14 +0000

That thumbnailer is great! Why not propose that for incorporation upstream into Gnome? Or at least a soundwave thumbnailer rather than a spectrum one, so as not to take as much processing power

Comment on soundprint by Yo'av Moshe

Yo'av Moshe — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:10:56 +0000

So cool. Seriously.

Comment on soundprint by Stefan Sauer

Stefan Sauer — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:43:36 +0000

Really nice. Next feature – using a rainbow color scale and skipping initial near-silence.