Today’s Daily Create took me a bit of time:
The Nature SoundMap site offers a fantastic way to explore the sounds of nature around the world via a map. Pick 5 sounds from places in the world you have never been, download the audio from SoundCloud, and mix them together.
Sounded easy – I use Audacity and Soundcloud, so off I went. Easy enough to select sounds, so when I had 5 I liked I clicked to download from Soundcloud. Hmmm, only 2 of the 5 had download buttons, back to the drawing board. After lots of clicking and listening I found 5 that I liked that I could download. Next I imported the files into Audacity, sorted the lengths out and exported the results. Finally I uploaded to Soundcloud. So here you have it: A Blakiston’s Fish Owl duet, baby racoons twittering, a grey go-away bird, a guanaco and sunrise by a billabong. I like it 🙂
You and Kevin (and probably others) have way more patience than I do. I spent the last 20 minutes or so trying to find SoundCloud recordings I could download. Not a single one that I selected was (legally) downloadable.
I think a lot of it was down to luck, but yeah, it was really frustrating.