One day as I awoke half groggy I said to my wife - "Did you hear the birds this morning, they were so loud", then I realized that it was actually my phone alarm that woke me up. I had recorded the Tui's in our back yard, and was using the recording as an alarm on my phone. So I decided to make a nice "Dawn chorus" ring-tone/alarm to share. All of these birds were just recorded by myself on my phone and I have joined them in order, with the most mellow first. They progressively get more raucous.
Riroriro >> Tui >> Kaka
I also have some cool Tieke calls, and seagulls fighting over fish and chips, but I wouldn't want you to wake up to that.
You can download the file below via my Dropbox.
m4a file (best for Apple) also works on Android.
ogg file Android.
mp3 file Android.
You don't have to be a Dropbox member to download stuff, even though it can try to confuse you into signing up. The "download" experience (from Dropbox) varies a lot from phone to phone, largely due to what browser you use, and what flavour of Android you have. Ditto if you are downloading it on a computer. The experience for enabling the new sound file in your phone also varies a lot.
You have 2 main goals.
1. Download/get the sound file onto your phone.
2. Open your alarm app, and go into the settings to add the new sound file.
How to
If you click on one of the links above on your Android Phone you should be able to play the sound, see if you like it, if you do, look about on the Dropbox webpage to try to "Download", "Save" or "Export" the file. Then "Save to device/Downloads". It should then save in the Downloads area of your phone. From here you could move it to the "Notifications", "Alarms" or Ringtones folder on your phone. Or maybe your phone will let it work from the downloads folder, YMMV. Some phones are more fussy than others. Most Samsung phones have a file manager called "My Files" which lets you move stuff around, just like windows does.
The next thing to do is to go to the app you use for your clock/alarms and select the downloaded sound file by navigating back to where you stored it. All clock/alarm apps will be different.
For Iphone users I believe you will have to save the sound file into Itunes and sync it over to your phone.
Koha
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| This is George, or L-44155. That's probably his call at the end of the recording. When George says wake up, you should probably listen. He can get pretty raucous. |
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