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added by Léa Bouffaut Feb 28 '22 at 19:12

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added by Shannon Feb 22 '22 at 3:38

	Stack Exchange might serve as a good platform for helping us solve 'mystery' sounds. This usually requires an embedded image of the spectrogram (and perhaps waveform?), and a link to an audio file stored on an open source platform. This is difficult to show as an example question on the proposal, but open to discussion. – Shannon Feb 22 '22 at 14:12
	Information about time of year it was recorded, distance from shore, and if it was recorded just once, or in a repeated pattern, would be helpful also. – selene Feb 22 '22 at 18:39
	An equivalent for mystery bird song already exists at xeno-canto.org – EcologyTom Feb 25 '22 at 9:54

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added by Timelate Mar 2 '22 at 16:50

I realize this is an example question- but I would want more specific information. I do feel this is on-topic, just needs more detailed info. – Shannon Mar 3 '22 at 14:45

Hi! I asked the example question and definitely agree with you it need more details ! I would have added more specification (e.g, what the recommendation are in the user guide, and what kind of value I end up with maybe ?) Just got stopped by the character limit in the question form :) – Timelate Mar 3 '22 at 15:12

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added by user219263 Mar 4 '22 at 0:28

	I'm interested in the community's thoughts on this question. It is not specifically related to animal bioacoustics, BUT it is related to anthropogenic noise and our initial intention is to extend our scope to include using sound to study the environment (and potential impacts on animals)... and therefore this type of question would be acceptable. Thoughts??? – Shannon Mar 5 '22 at 15:17
	I agree that it is not directly related to animal bioacoustics however I think it would be useful to keep this kind of questions since many of us are also doing this type of measurements. As Shannon also mentioned, in many cases, ship source levels are used to assess impact on marine fauna. – Xavier Mouy Mar 13 '22 at 14:16

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added by etgriffiths Feb 24 '22 at 15:32

I really like these questions, but they seem hugely open-ended. On other SE sties this sort of post often gets downvoted as being too wide. I would suggest narrowing them down to something more specific. – EcologyTom Feb 25 '22 at 9:55

I get what you are saying, but I was trying to structure it as someone might who doesn't know much. Ultimately, most of the acoustic packages are based on tuneR, anyway. So this question could lead to a teaching moment about those types of dependencies. – etgriffiths Mar 2 '22 at 12:18

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added by Kerri Feb 22 '22 at 22:41

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added by etgriffiths Mar 2 '22 at 12:10

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added by Ava Mar 4 '22 at 16:36

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added by Kerri Feb 22 '22 at 22:52

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added by etgriffiths Feb 24 '22 at 9:50

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added by Michael Ladegaard Feb 24 '22 at 12:15

Perhaps - What are the challenges/ethics involved for publishing navy sonar signals that were obtained in my PAM recording..? – Vijay Ramesh Feb 24 '22 at 14:16

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added by LizFerg Feb 26 '22 at 16:46

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added by Jehol Feb 27 '22 at 19:59

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added by etgriffiths Mar 2 '22 at 12:13

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added by Shannon Mar 2 '22 at 16:21

	This is a fake example based on a similar post in Biology Stack Exchange-- included for the community to assess if this is ON or OFF Topic. Assume I have included a link to a sound. – Shannon Mar 2 '22 at 21:25
	I'm out of votes but I'd consider this still on-topic. Even though the bioacoustics research field is growing, I think engagement from the broader community just interested in animal sounds will build up the numbers and support we will need to make this happen! – selene Mar 3 '22 at 14:39

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added by Pralle Mar 4 '22 at 9:28

	Well this is a curious question-- it seems to me that 'music' in a human construct and I might prefer a different wording to avoid anthropomorphism. If reworded, I think this question could be 'on topic'. I'd like to see more discussion on this?!? – Shannon Mar 4 '22 at 14:11
	Do some animals produce sounds without any apparent goals other than enjoying? – Noil Mar 7 '22 at 17:03

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added by Sougata Sadhukhan Mar 10 '22 at 9:07

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added by Xavier Mouy Mar 13 '22 at 3:20

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added by Kerri Feb 22 '22 at 22:47

do you mean the radii corresponding with TTS/PTS? perhaps specify what you mean by "impact" – chloe Feb 23 '22 at 11:55

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added by Thejasvi Feb 23 '22 at 7:32

I think you would need to narrow the possible species down i.e. bats, toothed whales, baleen whales? That way the question can be answered more easily. – macster110 Feb 23 '22 at 8:44

Altered to specify that the animal type is known, but the species isn't well studied. Question was trying to get at the general principle behind setting sampling rate of bioac recordings. – Thejasvi Feb 23 '22 at 9:02

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added by Thejasvi Feb 23 '22 at 7:39

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added by Pralle Mar 1 '22 at 14:44

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added by Pralle Mar 3 '22 at 14:37

I think this is a good question (but i'm out of votes); I would suggest that they provide a link to a recorded sound as these types of descriptive sounds can sometimes be interpreted differently by different people (and different languages may use different descriptive words!). – Shannon Mar 3 '22 at 14:44

Maybe a better way to think about it is, what sounds are "normal" for a species...? – Pralle Mar 10 '22 at 19:54

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added by Marie Mar 4 '22 at 20:58

	Not entirely clear as written (what do you mean by 'resolve'?). Do you mean to merge data or? – Shannon Mar 5 '22 at 15:19
	"resolve" what? It is a broad question, be more specific. – Bruna Campos Paula Mar 6 '22 at 12:18

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added by Noil Mar 7 '22 at 17:15

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added by cathleen_b Mar 8 '22 at 18:43

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added by cathleen_b Mar 8 '22 at 18:47

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added by LizFerg Mar 8 '22 at 21:41

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added by user219667 Mar 9 '22 at 0:09

Hi there. This seems to be a slightly different form of an existing question (area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/126698/…). Perhaps re-phrase to ask something in a different direction? – Thejasvi Mar 10 '22 at 9:36

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added by Sougata Sadhukhan Mar 10 '22 at 9:12

This sounds like it fits under another question (How do we know when a human-made sound causes harm to marine life?) because changing call signature could have detrimental effects on conspecific recognition – Pralle Mar 10 '22 at 19:50

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added by Xavier Mouy Mar 14 '22 at 12:37

Great question! – Shannon Mar 14 '22 at 18:23

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added by MZiegenhorn Feb 23 '22 at 2:08

is this too broad? – MZiegenhorn Feb 23 '22 at 2:08

I would suggest way too broad – macster110 Feb 23 '22 at 8:43

What about "What is a good reference or resource on the challenges of soundscape studies?" – selene Feb 23 '22 at 13:26

I like Selene's suggestion rather than downvoting this question. – Vijay Ramesh Feb 24 '22 at 14:22

Yep, I agree, Selene's suggestion is a great refinement. – EcologyTom Feb 25 '22 at 9:57

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added by MZiegenhorn Feb 23 '22 at 2:23

	think the specification of depth is irrelevant here (in a question where sound speed profiles are unknown). – chloe Feb 23 '22 at 11:54
	I don't know if naming HARP is useful, as not all folk will know what it is (on a global scale). I would limit it to bottom-moored sensor, listing the sensitivity, and location. – etgriffiths Feb 24 '22 at 15:45

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added by Sarah Vela Feb 23 '22 at 14:08

Too broad for a Q&A site-- there's good info on the web for people to learn the basics and then come here for more refined questions. – Shannon Mar 4 '22 at 14:15

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added by EcologyTom Feb 25 '22 at 9:57

I think this falls under the issues with 'best' being vague, but I think the idea of the question is valuable. Looking for something cost effective? with a flat frequency response? low power draw/long deployment duration? durability? – selene Feb 25 '22 at 13:19

Agreed! But I think those sorts of details would then be in the main text. Certainly without that sort of refinement, the question would be too broad for SE. – EcologyTom Feb 25 '22 at 13:46

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added by Kevin James Feb 26 '22 at 17:44

	I think the idea behind this Q is on topic and could just be made more specific and could lead to a whole bunch of questions - like...how do I know if my gain is too high or too low? How can I tell if my recordings are clipped? I set the gain to low is there anyway I can post-process to boost my recordings? – selene Mar 3 '22 at 16:21
	I agree that this question is a little too broad as asked, but is generally on-topic. I think a refinement following Selene's comments would be spot-on. – Shannon Mar 4 '22 at 14:12

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added by Kevin James Feb 26 '22 at 17:59

I struggle with this one-- it is too broad and there is no one answer, and yet if the question was asked for a very specific type of situation, it could be incredibly beneficial to the community. I welcome feedback from the community for how we should respond to open queries for advice?!?! – Shannon Feb 28 '22 at 14:52

I suppose we could ask for more specifics (terrestrial or marine, static devices or mobile/towed, a bit of details on the environment of supposed deployment...) Would definitely be useful to a lot of people I think... – Timelate Mar 3 '22 at 15:15

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added by chloe Mar 9 '22 at 10:45

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added by Kerri Feb 22 '22 at 22:36

	specify marine? – chloe Feb 23 '22 at 11:54
	Would a quick google search give this answer? It does for me...but that could be my google algorithm knows what I care about :) Would the question need to show what research the asker has already done and what bit of info they are still looking for? – selene Feb 23 '22 at 13:32
	Always enjoy storytelling (ha!), but I think an acceptable approach might be something along the lines of "I have a mystery Pacman sound I heard off Peru, and I am curious how other acousticians discovered mystery sounds such as the boing". Perhaps that might be more acceptable. Perhaps an alternative could be suggested? – Shannon Feb 24 '22 at 3:18

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added by LizFerg Mar 2 '22 at 18:32

I would consider this OFF TOPIC as it is not related to non-human animal bioacoustics or the affect of sound on animals. Or, should we broaden our scope? – Shannon Mar 2 '22 at 21:23