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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.net Web: http://www .aztrogon.com[...]

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    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 ........................................................................................................................................3 Original Requirements ...................[...]

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    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. Topics c overed include how I went a bout defining what [...]

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    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 2.4 x 0.7 inches and weighs 6.4 ounces. I use it with an optional soft carrying case which [...]

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    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. Musicmatch Jukebox This is the main component that facilitates the conversion of CD tracks to MP3 files and provides extensive features to catalog and ?[...]

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    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. No point in ha ving tons of materi[...]

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    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. What I required was to be able to get to a particular species as q[...]

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    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 thousand words so I think it’s useful at this point to look at examples of Musicmatch and DJ display screens Musicmatch Screen 0 is a partial display [...]

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    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. Getting to a bird All operations to select a bird are done with m y right thum b; alm ost all operations a[...]

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    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. First, in order to efficiently eva luate the source ma terial, I copied all the CDs to disk (in [...]

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    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.[...]

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    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. Many music discs alread[...]

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    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”. Tags should be add[...]

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    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 in the “General Tab” allows data to be entered for those categories (values are memorized and can be accessed via drop down boxes in future session[...]

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    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. Selecting a track with a right c lick will get you to the rename opera tion where the task of tagging[...]

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    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 . This is a relatively straightforward but very tedious task that has to be re[...]

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    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. The MP3 format files subsequently created (see next page) four letter banding codes, adding “song”, “call” nd any sub species/race information as appropria[...]

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    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. In fact, if you don’t or[...]

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    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. This step is alm ost identical to adding the source CD track s to the “Raw B[...]

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    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”. Copying tracks to the DJ is very simple -- e[...]

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    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 since abandoning tape players and switching to CDs and now to MP3, is the fact that two pieces of equipment are required -- the player and the speak er-am[...]

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    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”. Very logi cal you sa[...]

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    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. [...]

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    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. The speci[...]

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    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.dell.com/support/[...]