Re: [cobirds] Editing Merlin sound recordings?

eBird has a helpful article on editing audio files for upload with a few tools referenced.

https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001064341-audio-preparation-and-upload-guidelines

Best,

Jeff Percell

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 2:09 PM Todd Deininger <goldeneagle90a@gmail.com> wrote:

Instructions From ebird 

I also use Audacity

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM Jedediah Smith <jedsmith54@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Marty,

I personally use Audacity to edit my phone based recording. It takes a bit of messing around to figure everything out, but it is free and does everything I have wanted to do so far, including: clipping and deleting segments, amplifying audio volume, reducing background noise, and showing the spectrogram. I do it on my computer, I am not sure if there is a cell phone based app. I hope that helps!

Cheers,

Jed Smith

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 1:33 PM Marty <wolfmartinc@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, Cobirders,

Last night I had what was likely a young Great Horned Owl in a tree out back, making a repeated call I didn't recall hearing before (not at all screechy or harsh). Of course I couldn't make a visual observation, and Merlin made no suggestions for sound ID.

But I have a long Merlin recording, with especially long spans at the beginning and the end of silence (except for crickets and the clock ticking on the wall beside the window).

Is there any way to edit, or a program you can export a Merlin recording to in order to edit out chunks of silence?? (This recording goes on for over 5 minutes, with a fair amount of it.)

Thanks for any help.

Marty Wolf 

Nw Colorado Springs 

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