Hi Therese and All, I thought I would share the following link to a Macaulay Library document called "Making Sound Recordings with a Smartphone": http://help.ebird.org/customer/portal/kb_article_attachments/85186/original.pdf?1464483364
This document covers a variety of things to consider when recording with a smartphone, rather than focusing on a comparison of different recording apps. From an app standpoint, the key thing that we recommend is to find an app that creates uncompressed .wav files (as opposed to compressed .mp3 files). The smartphone document is part of a larger "Audio Best Practices" page with information about uploading sound recordings to eBird/ML: http://help.ebird.org/customer/en/portal/articles/2159648-best-practices-for-audio-upload-to-ebird Matt MedlerMacaulay Library From: Therese O'Connor <therese2...@gmail.com> To: CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 1:00 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Recording bird sounds Can anyone recommend a free phone app that can record bird calls easily? Thanks. -- Therese -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
