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Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005

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 replicated for each track (twice or

more per track if you separate songs and calls). As I mentioned earlier, I use Adobe Premiere -- other

editors will differ in operation but should allow the same basic functions shown in the screenshot.

In Premiere, I import raw tracks into the project window, drag the track to be edited into the source

window then select the portion that I want (here I’m extracting a call which is typically at the end of a

track). Finally, the selected portion is dragged to the timeline where it can be saved to disk. Note that I