Date: 6/30/25 1:28 pm
From: Chip Dawes <chipdawes...>
Subject: Re: [cobirds] Editing Merlin sound recordings?
Audacity is an open source app for Windows, Mac and Linux
You can download it for free at: https://www.audacityteam.org/download/

With it you can trim down a recording to the snippet containing the
interesting parts and save it in a number of formats.
You can also enhance a recording. There are many options you can explore
or simply keep it simple and trim a recording.
I have more experience using it to create ring tones for Android or iPhone
from MP3 popular music song recordings, but it will read/write the .WAV
format that Merlin uses just as readily as MP3 and several other formats.
Merlin saves your recordings on your phone and you can easily copy them to
your computer for editing.

Good luck,
Chip

On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 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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