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