packetrat

I have been using versions of Merlin for four years now, and it has consistently gotten better over time. When used properly, it’s like having a friend who has “ear birded” for decades along with you, catching things that may (if you’re like me) be outside your hearing range because of tinnitus or other hearing loss. But you have to be aware of the limitations of AI sound recognition and not use Merlin as your only way of tallying the birds around you. Merlin can occasionally “hallucinate” a bird recognition because of collisions of other noises that have sound prints similar to the bird in q

I had been reluctant to get into the Adobe Creative Cloud and had relied on various other tools and iCloud. But the volume of photos I was dealing with was maxing out my personal storage. But after adopting LightRoom I was able to not only do a better job of editing photos in bulk but to do most of my photo management up front from an iPad running the Lightroom app and could do most basic tasks from my phone. The desktop app and cloud experience are great as well.