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Jaclyn Tolchin
Jaclyn Tolchin

recordings have blank spots

Hello,


We're using audiomoths for a largescale monitoring project and we noticed a few recordings having "blank" spots. It's very intermittent and seemingly random. The files attached show the recording "blanking out" after some amount of minutes and remaining "out" for the rest of the file. In all cases, the sensor continues to record the next file that day and the following days with no issues. Ie, these are not files that are recorded as the battery is dying or the card is filling up. This project has over 100 sensors and this has happened with about a dozen of the sensors, usually one time per sensor (with one exception where a sensor had recurring blank spots and thus we stopped using it). Does this indicate an issue with the sensor, microphone, or something else? Can anything be done? Files are too large to attach so I've shared via googledrive. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CI83Keo-8pMcCXT-KrX00rfRZR7zQuCS?usp=sharing


Thank you!

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Hi Jaclyn,


Can you confirm what make and model of SD card you are using?


The blank spots are all aligned with 512 byte SD card sectors and the AudioMoth carried on assuming it was writing okay, so I would initially suspect the SD card. Can you double check that if you copy the file from the SD card again then the blank patches are identical, or if you run DIFF on the two versions (on your laptop and on the SD card) that they match.


Alex

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