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Realtime BirdNET soundscape analyzer
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Generate CommonName from ScientificName on demand rather than storing it #147

Open isZumpo opened 1 month ago

isZumpo commented 1 month ago

I've been trying out the language switching feature and one issue which I experienced is that all older detections still are in English even though I have specified Swedish. Only detections after I changed to Swedish are in Swedish.

I was thinking that it might make more sense to only store the scientific name inside the database itself, then translate it whenever the common name is required. This would make changes to languages apply instantly for all detections. In addition, the database could be made smaller since one less column would be needed. What do we think about this idea? :)