Click this link to download NZ bellbird songs to try out Upload songs feature and subsequent steps
If you have already-divided song files on your computer, you can upload these directly. On the navigation pane, click Upload songs and select up to 100 WAV files at once to upload.
For raw recordings that need to be divided into songs, see next step.
To upload a raw recording and divide it into song selections, do the following:
On the navigation pane, click Upload & split raw recording
In the Upload raw recording dialogue box, Click Upload (WAV only)
Select the recording you want to upload
Click Open
After selecting a file to upload, an Upload raw recording dialogue appears with Track name and Record date fields. The track name is automatically filled in based on the wav
filename. For example, Raw_Recording_001.wav
will by default appear as Raw_Recording_001
.
Click in the Track name field to modify the track name, if you wish.
Click in the Record date field to modify the date. By default, the record date is set as the date of recording upload to Koe.
Click Submit track info.
For recordings with more than one channel, select the desired channel.
Play the recording with the playback controls, looking for songs to segment. To play from the beginning, click Play button.
You can also play from a specific timepoint by clicking that point, then clicking Play.
With the controls beneath the spectrogram, you can:
Adjust spectrogram zoom.
Adjust spectrogram colour map.
Adjust playback speed.
Adjust spectrogram contrast.
Click the selection box to play it. Adjust the selection box endpoints by holding Shift
and dragging the box handles that appear.
For each selection you make, a row appears in the table beneath.
You can set an automatic naming scheme for segmented songs. Click the Naming pattern box to create a naming scheme with any combination of the following components: Track name
, Year
, Month
, Day
, Order
. You can also add custom components to the scheme, such as text strings, if you wish. Click Rename all to apply the naming scheme to all existing song selections.
Once you’ve finished making song selections, click Save to upload the songs to the database. The raw recording will not be saved, only songs – so make sure you finish partitioning all songs in one go.
Recordings too big to upload? Use this tool to automatically split your wav files
To run the tool you will need to install Python. After that it’s just a simple line of code that you type into your command prompt.
The tool and instructions are found here: https://github.com/fzyukio/split-songs