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Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs Stuart Healy Western U.S. Bird Guide, Specializing in Southeast Arizona and the White Mountains 220 Stardust Street, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635 Tel: (520) 458-7603 Fax: (520) 458-7353 E-mail: stuarthealy@earthlink.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 2 of 25 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ................................................................................
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 3 of 25 INTRODUCTION This document describes my experiences configuring and using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs in the course of my work.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 4 of 25 humb croll- laylists. ation HARDWARE The Dell DJ 30 is a very compact and sleek unit th at m easures approximately 4 x 2.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 5 of 25 SOFTWARE The Dell DJ ships with two software components.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 6 of 25 IMPLEMENTATION OVERVIEW For me, as a guide, it’s imperative that I can access th e song or call of a specific species as quickly as possible before an opportunity passes by.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 7 of 25 Before I got very far into the proj ect, I looked at the Dell DJ features to see how they would fit with the way I wanted to work in the field.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 8 of 25 Looking at the results A picture is rumored to be worth a th.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 9 of 25 DJ Screens 1-6 show the basic menus and navigation needed to access a specific species within a family.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 10 of 25 SOFTWARE WORKFLOW This section describes in detail how I used the Musicmatch software to achieve m y objectives.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 11 of 25 Before starting the copy, you can set the disk file format from the re corder settings window (I use WAV for ease of editing) and set the destin ati on on disk from the Tracks Directory window.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 12 of 25 Step 2 – Add source tracks to Raw Birds Library Adding tracks to a library in Musicmatch involves three basic steps: a) import th e tracks; b) add tag information; c) name the tracks.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 13 of 25 After the tracks are added, the libr ary display appears as shown in Musicmatch Screen 3 . Now the work really begins, it’s time to add tag in formation using “Edit Track Information”.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 14 of 25 Edit Track Information Checking the Album and Genre boxes i.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 15 of 25 Musicmatch Screen 6 shows a partial library display after assigni ng a family name to the first two tracks.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 16 of 25 placed the selected audio one second from time 0 to ensure clean transitions when playback is looped. Step 3 – Edit audio tracks .
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 17 of 25 hown in the following partial folder display.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 18 of 25 Step 4 – Convert edited tracks to MP3 format This is another fairly str aightforward task which is sim plified by the ability to select multiple fi les for simultaneous conversion.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 19 of 25 f Step 5 – Add MP3 files to Birds Library Okay, now we’re getting close to crea ting a sausage after lots of handl e cranking.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 20 of 25 The Add Tracks window is shown in Musicmatch Screen 9. In this example I’ve se lected View by Genre and collapsed the display to s how the “pseudo libraries”.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 21 of 25 PRACTICAL MATTERS About the only downside I’ve found sinc.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 22 of 25 rom nds DJ Operation The DJ plays tracks belonging to a temporary list of tracks known as “Sel ected Music” and the track that is currently playing is known as the “Current Track”.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 23 of 25 Problems and Annoyances DJ player I’ve found the DJ to be very reliable and durable. In fact, dropping it from a hei ght of 3+ feet hasn’t caused a problem, even when the unit was powered on a nd playing.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 24 of 25 Ongoing Concerns The Dell DJ is a sealed unit without any visible scre ws and it’s even unclear to me how the unit is assembled! Unfortunately, this means that the battery is not field replaceable.
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 25 of 25 APPENDIX Index for the Cornell source CDs that I use. (Adobe PDF 130KB) http://www.aztrogon.com/MP3/CD-Index.pdf Manuals Dell DJ User’s Guide (PDF from Dell web site, ~580KB) http://support.
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