No warning displayed when audio files are too large, and they block uploading other observations

[tiwane]

@kiwifergus

For me, I think the key thing is that iNat isn’t specifically for documenting the full range of voice for a species, or in the context of image/video the full range of behaviours of a taxa. It is more about documenting the moment of contact. Any image/video/audio is primarily about evidencing the encounter/presence of the taxa rather than studying it in depth. Even in a photo, there is a limit to the resolution that iNat will store it with.

@kiwifergus said it well. On iNat, the media evidence is primarily there to help others evaluate the observation and make an ID (although documenting behavior is also important, of course), so it shouldn’t be bigger than is necessary for that. We don’t support uploads of over 20mb, and we resize large photos to a maximum size of 2048 x 2048 pixels.

@jamesray would a few seconds of the calls be enough for others to evaluate when making an ID?