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It was mentioned as a resource containing bird songs, but it was noted that the recordings in the book were too compressed for the Merlin app to reliably identify the sounds.
I have the Birdsong Bible. Are you familiar with the Birdsong Bible?
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It was mentioned as a resource containing bird songs, but it was noted that the recordings in the book were too compressed for the Merlin app to reliably identify the sounds.
I have the Birdsong Bible. Are you familiar with the Birdsong Bible?
Yeah, yeah. Tim here put that up. That was you guys?
The Birdsong Bible can't fool the app, but it must be something going through recording and coming out the other side, it loses some essential element.
So, the sounds in that particular book with the little speaker are really compressed and that was 10, 15 years ago when there just wasn't the technology to put a good speaker next to a book.