Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk content

Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by LeoPanthera on Saturday August 19, 2023 @09:52PM (#37195262)

Install SoX and you can generate noise without using any data at all. Even without internet access. Imagine that.

  play -n synth 60:00 whitenoise
  play -n synth 60:00 pinknoise
  play -n synth 60:00 brownnoise

Or make your own wav files:

  sox -n whitenoise.wav synth 60:00 whitenoise
  # Also works with pinknoise/brownnoise

I wouldn't use lossy compression to compress these. There's no redundant data in noise so lossy compression will just make it less noise-y. I can only imagine that noise on streaming services sounds weird.

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Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by jcul on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:19PM (#37195426)

A lot of these white noise thread are not just straight up pink / white / brown noise, some of them vary with time to create more soothing effects like wave sounds or sounding like a vacuum etc.

Speaking from experience of trying anything to try get babies to sleep!

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Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by LeoPanthera on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:28PM (#37195476)

You can totally do that too.

This is a nice synthetic ocean sound, with "waves":

  play -n synth brownnoise synth 0 0 0 10 10 40 trapezium amod 0.1 30

Or with a little more high end, it sounds like gusts of wind:

  play -n synth brownnoise synth pinknoise mix synth 0 0 0 10 10 40 trapezium amod 0.1 30

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Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by network2592 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:42PM (#37195557)

Definitely. It has been my goto for white|brown|pink noise for a year now. Even the animation on the terminal looks a bit like "waves". [1]

Could you please share any other examples of commands?

[1] https://ibb.co/GVG0Rdf

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Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by sss111 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:37PM (#37195871)

play seems to hang on my macos terminal. Its just stuck on:

        File Size: 10        
        Encoding: n/a           
        Channels: 1 @ 32-bit   
        Samplerate: 48000Hz      
        Replaygain: off         
        Duration: unknown

        In:0.00% 00:00:00.00 [00:00:00.00] Out:0     [      |      ]        Clip:0

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Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by LeoPanthera on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:46PM (#37195926)

That's weird. Works OK on mine.

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Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by srean on Sunday August 20, 2023 @05:31AM (#37197550)

> sounding like a vacuum

You stumped me there. Then I got it.

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Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by barbazoo on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:06PM (#37195344)

Cool trick for when you're at the computer. Not practical for sleeping for most people I'd say.

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Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by LeoPanthera on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:17PM (#37195421)

If you make the wavs you can put them on any playback device you like.

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Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by jayknight on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:47PM (#37195586)

I sometimes use the "chroma doze" and generate colored noise with my phone. Playing it over the phone speaker isn't great, but if you need some noise it will do.

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