Page 2 - © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 2 of 25; Table of Contents
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 2 of 25 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................................................................
Page 3 - Original Requirements
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 3 of 25 INTRODUCTION This document describes my experiences configuring and using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs in the course of my work. Topics ...
Page 4 - HARDWARE
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 4 of 25 humb croll- laylists. ation HARDWARE The Dell DJ 30 is a very compact and sleek unit that measures approximately 4 x 2.4 x 0.7 inches and weighs 6.4 ounces. I us...
Page 5 - SOFTWARE; Musicmatch Jukebox
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 5 of 25 SOFTWARE The Dell DJ ships with two software components. Musicmatch Jukebox This is the main component that facilitates the conversion of CD tracks to MP3 files ...
Page 6 - Source material
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 6 of 25 IMPLEMENTATION OVERVIEW For me, as a guide, it’s imperative that I can access the song or call of a specific species as quickly as possible before an opportunity...
Page 8 - Looking at the results; Musicmatch Screen 0
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 8 of 25 Looking at the results A picture is rumored to be worth a thousand words so I think it’s useful at this point to look at examples of Musicmatch and DJ display sc...
Page 9 - Getting to a bird
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 9 of 25 DJ Screens 1-6 show the basic menus and navigation needed to access a specific species within a family. Getting to a bird All operations to select a bird are don...
Page 10 - SOFTWARE WORKFLOW; Musicmatch Screen 1
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 10 of 25 SOFTWARE WORKFLOW This section describes in detail how I used the Musicmatch software to achieve my objectives. First, in order to efficiently evaluate the sour...
Page 14 - Edit Track Information; Musicmatch Screen 5
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 14 of 25 Edit Track Information Checking the Album and Genre boxes in the “General Tab” allows data to be entered for those categories (values are memorized and can be a...
Page 18 - Step 4 – Convert edited tracks to MP3 format; Musicmatch Screen 7
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 18 of 25 Step 4 – Convert edited tracks to MP3 format This is another fairly straightforward task which is simplified by the ability to select multiple files for simulta...
Page 19 - Step 5 – Add MP3 files to Birds Library; Musicmatch Screen 8
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 19 of 25 f Step 5 – Add MP3 files to Birds Library Okay, now we’re getting close to creating a sausage after lots of handle cranking. This step is almost identical to ad...
Page 21 - PRACTICAL MATTERS
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 21 of 25 PRACTICAL MATTERS About the only downside I’ve found since abandoning tape players and switching to CDs and now to MP3, is the fact that two pieces of equipment...
Page 22 - DJ Screen 7
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 22 of 25 rom nds DJ Operation The DJ plays tracks belonging to a temporary list of tracks known as “Selected Music” and the track that is currently playing is known as t...
Page 23 - DJ player
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 23 of 25 Problems and Annoyances DJ player I’ve found the DJ to be very reliable and durable. In fact, dropping it from a height of 3+ feet hasn’t caused a problem, even...
Page 24 - Ongoing Concerns
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 24 of 25 Ongoing Concerns The Dell DJ is a sealed unit without any visible screws and it’s even unclear to me how the unit is assembled! Unfortunately, this means that t...
Page 25 - APPENDIX
Using a Dell DJ MP3 player for field playback of bird songs. Rev A2, November, 2005 © Copyright Stuart Healy www.aztrogon.com Page 25 of 25 APPENDIX Index for the Cornell source CDs that I use. (Adobe PDF 130KB) http://www.aztrogon.com/MP3/CD-Index.pdf Manuals Dell DJ User’s Guide (PDF from Dell web...