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Asela Buchheit
Personally, I find Bluetooth connections kind of unstable. They seem more prone to blips and brief interruptions, which is particularly annoying when you want a solid whooosh of white noise washing over you without pauses.
This is my favorite technique for turning a SoundLink into a white noise machine when I travel. The SoundLink travels pretty well so I often bring it with in my luggage. The AUX cable provides a much more stable connection to the speaker than Bluetooth does, in my experience. Once connected, set the SoundLink to AUX mode and play the white noise song like you would any song. Like the Bluetooth technique above, though, this technique also ties up audio on the phone.
Recently upgraded to Catalina and now when playing songs via Bluetooth on the Apple Music there are occasional screeching/white noise sounds between songs. The sounds are exceptionally abrasive and loud. Never had this issue before Catalina. I am up to date on all app updates and OS but have not upgraded to Big Sur as I was advised to wait by an Apple Developer. I've disconnected and reconnected the bluetooth, gone into preferences made sure to reselect all of those options, reset the internet, and done everything listed in other posts about this issue. The conversation usually ends with "contact the manufacturer of the speakers" but that's clearly not the issue if so many people are having the same problem. However, I did contact the manufacturer (Sony) and they said it's the Mac and that this problem has been persistent for many of their models recently. Contacted another manufacturer (Panasonic) and they said the same thing, it's the Mac and that numerous people have called having this issue. I used Xcode and could find no errors or outside interference. The only other bluetooth device connected to my computer is my wireless mac mouse.
But the songs lack the grit and soul seen in his previous work, and his lyrics are missing the depth they used to have. It feels like Gundersen went from writing poetry that followed his own rules to just pandering to modern conventions of indie folk, easy-to-digest lyricism.
Many animals rely on acoustic communication to establish and maintain their social relationships. Acoustic signals propagate very quickly and over long distances (Bradbury and Vehrencamp 2011), but with increasing transmission distances, they get more and more attenuated and degraded by the environment (Wiley and Richards 1978). Attenuation of acoustic signals in natural environments is mainly the result of atmospheric absorption and scattering and attenuation by vegetation, whereas degradation refers to reverberations and amplitude fluctuations induced by reflection from objects and the effects of wind on sound propagation (Wiley and Richards 1978). In addition, acoustic communication is strongly constrained by masking noise, which limits the active range of a signal (Brumm and Slabbekoorn 2005; Wiley 2015). Such noise may include, for example, the sounds produced by wind, rain or flowing water, the vocalisations of other species, and, to an ever-increasing degree, anthropogenic noise pollution (Luther and Gentry 2013).
Birds use acoustic signals (songs) for crucial functions, such as mate attraction, mate choice, and territory defence (Catchpole and Slater 2008). Therefore, impairment of song communication is likely to have major fitness consequences for birds and thus, in turn, one may expect strong selection on vocal and other behavioural faculties for efficient song transmission in noise (Brumm and Naguib 2009). In fact, birds have evolved a whole array of different vocal production mechanisms to mitigate acoustic masking by noise (Brumm and Zollinger 2013). These mechanisms can be roughly categorised into two groups: on the one hand, increasing the signal level and, on the other, indirectly decreasing the level of noise, both of which eventually help maintaining favourable signal-to-noise ratios for communication. To increase their signal level in noise, all bird species tested so far regulate their vocal amplitude depending on the background noise level. This capacity is a basic form of noise-dependent vocal plasticity in birds and mammals, known as the Lombard effect (Brumm and Zollinger 2011). The Lombard effect is often accompanied by additional changes in other signal parameters, e.g. some bird species may also increase the redundancy of their vocalisations in noise by producing longer and more repetitive signal series (Potash 1972; Lengagne et al. 1999; Brumm and Slater 2006), adjust their signal duration (Osmanski and Dooling 2009), or change the frequency of their vocalisation (Goodwin and Podos 2013; Osmanski and Dooling 2009). From all of these noise-induced signal changes, increasing vocal amplitude is by far the most effective to maintain signal detectability in noise (Nemeth and Brumm 2010; Luo et al. 2015). However, physiological and physical constraints limit bird song (like any other animal vocalisation) to a certain maximum amplitude (Suthers and Zollinger 2008).
While the sound level of noise is an important factor for song adjustments, only few experimental studies examined how noise-mitigation behaviour varies with noise intensity. One of them found that calling rates in domestic chicken (Gallus gallus) are increased in moderate noise (probably to maintain information transfer by increased redundancy), but supressed by high noise levels, indicating that noise effects may not be linear (Brumm et al. 2009). This observation, just like the chaffinch study mentioned in the previous paragraph, suggests a noise-level threshold that triggers suppression of vocal signal production. Understanding the conditions and noise characteristics that elicit behavioural plasticity is important to better apprehend the effects of noise pollution on animals and thus may help to improve noise-mitigation measures. To this end, we investigated noise-related timing of vocalisations in a passerine bird, the domesticated Canary (Serinus canaria). Song production and vocal control in this species have been well-studied (Leitner and Catchpole 2004; Suthers et al. 2012), including the Lombard effect (Hardman et al. 2017), as well as the function of male song in mate attraction and mate stimulation (Voigt and Leitner 2008; Leitner et al. 2001; Leboucher et al. 2012). During the breeding season, the mean duration of individual Canary songs is 8.6 s and the singing rate culminates at about 5.4 songs per minute at the peak of the season (Voigt and Leitner 2008; Leitner et al. 2015). To investigate noise-induced song plasticity in Canaries, in particular temporal noise avoidance behaviour, we tracked the singing activity of individual males while broadcasting intermittent white noise for ten hours per day, roughly mimicking the patterns of noise pollution at an airport (Dominoni et al. 2016). We predicted that the Canaries would avoid singing during the noise bursts depending on the noise amplitude. According to the findings of non-linear changes in chicken vocalisations (Brumm et al. 2009), we expected that vocal production may be stimulated by low-amplitude noise and suppressed at high amplitudes. We also predicted that, over the course of the experiment, the Canaries would shift their singing activity to the quiet period in the morning before the onset of the noise playback, similar to what has been observed in birds at airports.
The recordings were screened with Avisoft SASLab Lite (v. 3.5.01, Avisoft Bioacoustics, Berlin, Germany) to identify songs by visual inspection of spectrograms (Hann window, FFT-length: 256 points, resolution: 172 Hz). Following a definition of previous studies (Voigt and Leitner 2008; Leitner et al. 2001), we considered vocalisations longer than 1.5 s and containing no pauses longer than 0.4 s as song. However, since the recordings files were 5 s long, they could theoretically contain two short song vocalisations with a gap between 0.4 and 2.0 s between them. Thus, our operational definition of song includes performances with such silent intervals between two consecutive vocalisations. According to these criteria, we found that 22 males sang at least one song. In total, we recorded 1842 songs consisting of 2959 recording files. We counted the number of song onsets in noise and in the silent intervals between noise periods. The time of song onset was defined as the onset time of the 5-s recording that contained the onset of the song.
All subsequent statistical analyses were performed in R (v. 4.1.2, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing). We investigated the impact of noise level and the total duration of intermittent noise exposure (number of experimental days) on the onset of songs using four generalised linear mixed models and one linear mixed model (Table 1), built with the package lme4 (v. 1.1.29). In model 1.1 and model 1.2, we investigated the probability of birds to start singing during a 40-s noise burst or in the silent periods between the noise burst over the course of the experiment (fixed effect: experimental day, from 1 to 5) and according to the noise level [fixed effect: playback noise level in dB(A)]. To account for circadian changes in their song activity, we included the time since the start of playback (in hours) as a fixed effect. Whether birds started the song in the noise or not was treated as a binomial variable and modelled using a logistic regression. Since previous studies showed that singing or calling activity may increase with moderate noise levels and then decrease at higher noise levels (Brumm et al. 2009; Díaz et al. 2011; Brumm and Zollinger 2013), we expected the probability of birds to start singing in the noise to follow the same pattern. Therefore, in model 1.2, the noise amplitude was fitted as a polynomial term of degree 2. We compared model 1.1 and model 1.2 using an ANOVA to determine whether the polynomial term in model 1.2 improved model fit significantly. Since birds in acoustically polluted areas shift their daily song onsets to earlier times in the morning (da Silva et al. 2014; Gil et al. 2015; Dominoni et al. 2016), we investigated whether the time of the first song per day changed over the course of the experiment (model 2). The time at which the first song was emitted was measured relative to the onset of light and log-transformed to achieve normality and then modelled using a linear mixed model. Following the notion that the advancement of singing activity would allow birds to sing more before the onset of the noise (e.g. Arroyo-Solís et al. 2013; Dominoni et al. 2016), we tested this with additional analyses that investigated whether the Canaries shifted their singing activity to the silent period before or after the playback. For this purpose, we calculated the proportion of songs that were emitted before the playback started (model 3) and the proportion of songs that were emitted after the end of the playback period (model 4). Whether a song was emitted before (1) or after (0) the start (model 3) or end (model 4) of the playback period was treated as a binomial variable and modelled against the experimental day using a logistic regression. In all models, we additionally added the unique identifier of the experimental round as a fixed effect to account for the time within the breeding season. Bird identity was used as a random effect in all models to consider individual differences. Quality of model fit was assessed by visual inspection of the residual distributions. No signs of heteroscedasticity and no obvious trend in the residuals were detected. Following Abbey-Lee et al. (2016), we generated posterior distributions for each model by simulating them 1000 times using the package arm (v. 1.12.2). Estimates and credible intervals were defined at the mean, 0.025 and 0.975 percentile of the posterior distribution.
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