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Uploading audio to Ecosounds

Sample rate and bit depth

Converting audio files

Converting with R

FLAC (software)

Segmenting audio files

Segmenting with AP

Segmenting with R

Package manager

Chocolatey (Windows)

Homebrew (macOS)

PowerShell (software)

Terminal basics

The PATH variable

Using unsigned apps in terminal on macOS

A guide to using PBS

Environment Variables

PBS example with Python

PBS example with R

FL001 Preallocated headers

FL002 Empty blocks of audio data

FL003 Generating corrupt full-size files

FL004 Square brackets in filenames

FL005 Generating incorrect `Subchunk2Size` header values

FL006 Schedule names are random characters

FL007 Incorrect SD Card Serial Number Encoded In Log File

FL008 Invalid datestamps in file names (space instead of a zero)

FL010 Generating incorrect durations for FLAC files

FL011 Partial files named `data`

FL012 Data chunk size is zero

Open Acoustics Devices

OA001 Interference in Audio Files

OA002 Generating small or empty files

OA003 Unreadable file names

OAD004 Bad header dates in firmware 1.2.2

Open Ecoacoustics

OE001 No date in filename

OE002 Ambiguous datestamps in filenames

OE003 Invalid Datestamp

OE004 Empty files

OE005 Null files

Wildlife Acoustics

WA001 Generating Empty Files

WA002 Generating Files with No Data

WA003 Generating files that overlap with the next file in the sequence

WA004 Corrupt files

Recording and Labelling

Acoustic Indices

Wrangling Sound Files

Make Your Own Recogniser

Metadata standard

Analysis Effort

Annotations guides

Command Line Interfaces

Data collection and metadata

Filenames for audio files

Metadata collected by sensors

Naming and Terminology

Standard structure for storing audio files

Recognizer Registry

Contribute to the registry

How to publish a recognizer

Why publish your recognizer?

Software Comparison

Use Cases for Ecoacoustics

The Australian Acoustic Observatory, Hoot Detective, & the impact of good data on Species Distribution Models

Harnessing acoustic data and Generalised Dissimilarity Modelling to examine compositional turnover of avian species.

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Best practices for Ecoacoustics.

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