Hi everyone,
I tried to change the translation to Chinese but I don’t know how to do it properly.
I changed the back template to this:
{{^Danish}}{{Chinese}}{{/Danish}}
but it didn’t work.
What should I do?
The default language is Danish. Change to this to make it Chinese:
<div class="title">
<b>{{Chinese}}
<!-- If there is no translation, English name is shown: -->
{{^Chinese}}{{English}}{{/Chinese}}
</b></div>
Note that you can additionally include Chinese-traditional if relevant.
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Thank you! It helps a lot!
For future reference:
How to change the language
From the front page, open the browser:
Select a card from the deck and open the card template:
Navigate to the “Back Template” and change language three places from “Danish” to e.g. “Spanish”:
Then change the card type in the drop-down menu and do the same thing for the other card type:
Remember to click “Save” when done.
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Hi,
I’ve seen in the thread instruction, on how to download sounds.
Is there an easy way to download images, for offline use?
If you use Localize Media with the default deck, only images will be downloaded. If you first switch the audio player, then both images and audio will be downloaded.
Also remember you can adjust the image resolution of the images before downloading.
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I updated the deck to follow Clements v2024 as well as a few extra improvements.
If you don’t want your mnemonics to be overwritten when updating, use the Special Fields addon.
When importing the updated deck, check “Merge note types” and set “Update notes” and “Update note types” to “Always”.
Then query "deck:Ultimate Birds" -tag:UB::version-2025-03-08 and delete the notes (they were split/lumped).
Edit: It is no longer necessary to switch audio player before downloading media. Updated instructions:
Downloading media
If you want to be able to use the deck offline and have faster loading, you can download media. For the images, you can optionally change the resolution before downloading as described in the desk’s description. And if you don’t want the audio to be downloaded, see below.
To download media get the addon Localize Media and localize only the cards you need. It takes about one hour for 100 notes, so do a few at a time.
You can expect 500 notes to take up approximately 2GB of space.
Avoiding localizing audio
If you only want to localize the photos and not audio or spectrograms, first do “Notes” → “Find and Replace” src=" with src_=" in the Sounds field.
Then localize the media, and afterwards fix the sounds field again by replacing src_=" back with src=".
Thank you for putting together this deck, it’s great!
The one challenge I had was even limiting the birds down to just my state it was still a lot of species. And many of those species weren’t actually in my area due to seasonal migrations or just the wide variety of ecosystems in my state (oceans, rain forest, mountains, deserts, etc.), so it wasn’t really helping me to ID the birds I was seeing on a regular basis.
To fix that I built a quick tool that pulls the recent eBird sightings in the area and then generates the filter string for your deck, so I could focus on the birds that are currently in the area. Then every week or two I pull the recent sightings again and update the deck to get any new species in the area.
Thought it might be helpful for others, so I cleaned it up a bit and posted it here: https://punteney.com/bird-id
Let me know if any questions or problems.
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Wow, this is really great!
It could have been nice if the eBird API had made it easy to select an interval of dates, but I see that you can only select a single date and also need to provide a specific location code, so I think that is a little difficult.
Just some small things:
When I move the pin location on the tool, the radius does not move with it.
And in the steps you don’t need to write “select the Ultimate Birds deck” since you already add that to the queries.
You can also consider adding that it should be a “Common” species in the specific region so you still do not unsuspend rare occurrences.
Anyways, I added a link in the deck description, thanks for sharing!
Yeah, my first thought was to be able to chose the date as well. eBird does have a “historic observations” API that lets you specify date and get sigthing in the region/sub-region. I may mess with it at some point, and see how useful it is.
Thank you for the bug catch/suggestions! I fixed the radius not moving, and removed the extra step in the directions.
The common species is a good idea, it has a potential edge cases with if the radius goes across more than one region.
The simplest way, and maybe it would be good enough, would be to just use the region the selected point is in and do the common check based on that. Basically, assume if it’s rare in that region it will be rare within the whole selected radius.
The ideal would probably be to get any of the regions that the selected radius is in and include any species that is common in any of the regions. I haven’t looked into it yet, but I’m guessing determining all the regions the selected radius goes across could be a pain.
I’ll play around with it and see what I can come up with, but open to any thoughts or suggestions.
Thanks again for putting together this deck, it’s really well done!
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Hi Bjoe,
Thanks a lot for the add-on and the clear instructions!
I’ve been using Localize Media and it works well for downloading images, but I can’t seem to get it to download the audio files.
Is there anything to do to make sure the audio gets downloaded as well? Or are the audio files downloaded somewhere else ( I doesn’t seem like it since offline images works for me but not audio)
Thanks in advance for your help!
Which platform are you using? I recently simplified the instructions as it worked on Windows.
I am using the desktop app on Mac
Updated instructions:
Downloading media
If you want to be able to use the deck offline or have faster loading, you can download media. For the images, you can optionally change the resolution before downloading as described in the desk’s description. If you also want the audio to be downloaded, you have to change the audio player before continuing, see below (not necessary on Windows).
To download media get the addon Localize Media and localize only the cards you need. It takes one hour for about 100 notes, so do a few at a time.
You can expect 500 notes to take up approximately 2GB of space.
Switch to Anki’s audio player before downloading
To be able to download audio, you have to follow these instructions before localizing media.
Select the cards of the deck,
Notes → Find and replace, check “treat as regular expression” and replace
<audio controls="" controlslist="nodownload noplaybackrate"><source src="(.*?)" type="audio/mpeg"></audio>
with
[sound:${1}]
Then replace the entire front card template of Sound to name with the following:
{{#Sounds}}
<br/><br/>
<a class="hidden-a" href="#">
<div id="front-aud" class="container"></div>
</a>
<div class="container btn-container">
<button id="btn" onclick="next_sound()">
<a class="reroll hidden-a" href="#"><b> ↻ </b></a>
</button>
</div>
<div id="sound-data" style="display: none">{{Sounds}}</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var elements = document.querySelector('#sound-data').children;
var randomIdx = Math.floor(Math.random() * elements.length);
if (elements.length <= 1) {
document.querySelector('#btn').style.display = "none";
}
function next_sound() {
randomIdx = (randomIdx + 1) % elements.length;
play_sound();
}
function play_sound() {
// Hide sonogram
elements[randomIdx].querySelector('img').style.display = 'none';
document.querySelector('#front-aud').innerHTML = elements[randomIdx].outerHTML;
document.querySelector('#front-aud').querySelector('.replay-button').click();
}
play_sound();
// Adds eventlistener on first card only
if (!window.audioListenerAdded) {
document.addEventListener('keyup', function(event) {
var frontAud = document.querySelector('#front-aud');
// Only use shortcut on this card type
if (frontAud) {
var key = event.key || event.keyCode;
var selectedAudio = frontAud.querySelector('audio');
if (key === 'r' || key === 'R') {
play_sound();
} else if (key === 'n' || key === 'N') {
next_sound();
}
}
});
window.audioListenerAdded = true;
}
</script>
{{/Sounds}}
And in the styling template, replace
.hidden-a {
color: inherit !important;
cursor: inherit;
text-decoration: inherit;
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;
width: 100%;
}
with
.hidden-a {
display: contents;
}
Finally go to the deck options and enable “Don’t play audio automatically”. Then once you localize media, the audio should play automatically as JavaScript is used to play a random sound.
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Just tested and it works perfectly ! Thanks for you help ( and for the wonderful deck) !
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Bjoe, thank you so much for a wonderful deck! I appreciate how customizable and concise it is. To aid in my personal Chinese language learning, I added and populated Zhuyin and Pinyin fields, indicating the pronunciations of the Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese names, respectively.
(example custom back card)
Would you be interested in updating the deck with the Zhuyin and Pinyin fields? If so, I can send over the data, I’m not sure which format works best for you.
Thanks for offering this. However, when it’s possible I’d like to try and avoid changing the note type.
If people want Zhuyin/Pinyin I’d suggest to use an addon like this: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/77106192
The same equivalent exists for romanizing some of the other languages.
Woah, I had no idea that existed! Thank you!
Creating one card type per audio.
A user asked how to have a separate card for each audio, so here is how you can do it:
- In Anki, go to the browser → select a card from the deck → “Fields…”
Here rename the “Sounds” field to “Sound1” and reposition it to be the last field. Then add 9 more fields you call “Sound2”, “Sound3”,…, “Sound10”
Then save. - Export the Ultimate Birds deck as the format “Notes in Plain Text” and include all except “Include tags”.
- Open the .txt file in a text editor, and replace all
</div><div class=""aud-w-txt"">with
</div>" "<div class=""aud-w-txt"">
and then save the file.
(the “tab” character in between will split the sounds into separate fields) - Import the updated file
- Open the card template for a card and replace the front card template with the code below this
- For the back template add the other sounds after {{Sound1}}:
{{Sound2}}{{Sound3}}{{Sound4}}{{Sound5}}{{Sound6}}{{Sound7}}{{Sound8}}{{Sound9}}{{Sound10}} - Still in the card editor, go to Options → Add card type and for this card template keep the same code except {{Sound1}} becomes {{Sound2}} in the front template. Keep doing this until you have cards for all 10 fields.
- In the browser, search for
tag:ub (card:3 OR card:4 OR card:5 OR card:6 OR card:7 OR card:8 OR card:9 OR card:10 OR card:11), select all and change deck to the “sound to name” subdeck - Close the browser and run Tools → Empty Cards
<br/><br/>
<a class="hidden-a" href="#">
<div id="front-aud" class="container"></div>
</a>
<div id="sound-data" style="display: none">{{Sound1}}</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var elements = document.querySelector('#sound-data').children;
// Hide sonogram
elements[0].querySelector('img').style.display = 'none';
document.querySelector('#front-aud').innerHTML = elements[0].outerHTML;
document.querySelector('#front-aud').querySelector('audio').play();
// Adds eventlistener on first card only
if (!window.audioListenerAdded) {
document.addEventListener('keyup', function(event) {
var frontAud = document.querySelector('#front-aud');
// Only use shortcut on this card type
if (frontAud) {
var key = event.key || event.keyCode;
var selectedAudio = frontAud.querySelector('audio');
if (key === 'r' || key === 'R') {
selectedAudio.pause();
selectedAudio.currentTime = 0;
selectedAudio.play();
}
}
});
window.audioListenerAdded = true;
}
</script>