[image] Cannot upload .wav file to web uploader I’ve uploaded mp3 format successfully. Seconding this comment. Even though its just a workaround for the bug you’re reporting, you should seriously consider converting your WAV file(s) to MP3. MP3 files seem to be working fine on the iNat website…

[image] Cannot upload .wav file to web uploader iNaturalist is not about building or showing off a portfolio of studio-quality media. Nobody suggested it was :-) [image] Cannot upload .wav file to web uploader iNaturalist is about recording/reporting occurrences of flora and fauna and corr…

This tangent was straying from the bug report so I moved it to its own topic.

Good decision. The issue in regard to sound quality that I’ve observed is not the file format but that observer/recordists/submitters do not edit their sound clips in software–by that I mean “normalize” or amplify the sounds and trim out long intros. I can barely hear most of the submitted audio an…

Just upload what works for you and don’t police other people’s contributions. If you can’t tell what it is mark reviewed and move on. A lot of us have super slow internet connections and limited storage space on our devices. Bandwidth isn’t really increasing for some of us. That stuff follows money. …

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that was in response to Tony’s comment.

I did scribble a comment about sound here - https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/good-voice-sound-recorders-for-the-field/1123/14 - but it’s not really in the forefront of the site ;-) Perhaps you could add a tutorial to the forum?

I have actually tried to find ways to convert various file types to others (after reading something about file quality relating to recording of bird calls), and gave up after an hour or so of searching for a free software I could download either on my phone or computer that wouldn’t involve a consid…

[image] nanofishology: I was specifically looking for programs what would produce sonograms (like what eBird does), but couldn’t find anything. I have used the Cornell Lab’s Raven Lite for this, e.g. here . It’s free, and the learning curve is minimal if you have ever used any waveform-based s…

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nanofishology May 21, 2019, 2:42pm 13

That’s PERFECT, thank you! Just downloaded it!

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Sound quality for iNat observations

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