Quality: A sample rate of 44100 Hz and a sample format of 24 bit will be good enough. Playback: Length of preview should be at least 15 seconds. Preferences: A lot of default settings is not suited to work with bird voices recordings. But the audacity homepage shows how this module can easily be installed. xeno-canto recordings, but not automatically included in the installation. The mp3 module (lame_enc.dll) is necessary for e.g.
Installing: Choose the Beta version from – it it stable enough and has much more features. Here some personal experiences and tips using Audacity. Some features are a bit tricky and not so easy to learn or heavy to find. Of course there are a lot of features you never will use, since you make no music. But it can also be used for editing recordings of bird songs and calls as well as for any recording outside in nature it has many features which are equal or even better than professional and expensive sound managing programs. Using Audacity to manage, edit and filter bird voices and similar recordingsĪudacity is a free available tool for sound managing, mainly written for musicians.
