Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Alligatorbellow1.ogg

Alligator bellow[edit]

Alligator bellow

Field recording of an alligator.

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Alligator bellow (edited)

Field recording of an alligator- edited according to Tony's suggestions

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This file courtesy of our good friends at the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. I noticed that our "field recordings" section at WP:FS is empty, and I can't think of a better file to start us off. Used in alligator. Duration of the file is 24 seconds, and size is 293kb.

added an edited version, cleaning up some technical problems.Borisblue 03:10, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nominate and support. - Borisblue 05:54, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment—Interesting; there's drop-out at about 2 secs and a click further in. The recording chokes off in the middle of a "bellow". Other than that, it's worth FS, I think. It would be so easy to (fairly quickly) fade up to avoid the drop-out at the start, and to fade down to avoid the unpleasant end. How 'bout it? Tony 01:43, 5 July 2007 (UTC) PS Or is this initial drop-out just an artifact of the Java player (I may have noticed it on other sound files)? In any case, the end could do with a fade-down. Tony 01:49, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not hearing the problems in the beginning of the file- can someone else verify? I'll work on the fade-down. Borisblue 22:38, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nvm, Tony, there's nothing wrong with your java player- I saw a 'click' in the beginnning when checking it with audacity. I've removed it, and added the fade in and fade out. Borisblue 03:10, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit unsigned edit by User:Adam_Cuerden
Further comment—The "edited" version still chops out suddenly. Are you sure you uploaded the right file—the one you faded down (I'm hoping it will fade down over ... one to two seconds? I still have what appears to be dropout shortly after the start, but I'm unsure. The click has gone. Tony 01:32, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS Ah, now I see the problem: when you play it as part of the browser, the fade down doesn't work. When you download it as an ogg file, it does (and I can hear that the drop-out is just the creature's taking of a quick breath). Anyone got any ideas on this problem? Tony 01:40, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think User:Gmaxwell is in charge of the play-in-browser feature. You should give him the details of your problem Borisblue 03:27, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support edit. Animal voice recordings are often neglected, so I think this would be a good way to promote more recordings. bibliomaniac 15 Prepare to be deleted! 03:23, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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