> start listening now
... Right after signing up. Signing up is not worth figuring out if I want to sign up. Are there no 10-20 second samples I can listen to first, or am I missing something?
Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
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Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#52It's only after hitting the "start listening now" button, after you input your name and email address, that it's made clear you're only getting 5 free sessions. I feel like I've been duped into giving my personal information away.
If anyone from brain.fm is reading, don't underestimate how much resentment this kind of dishonest manipulation generates.
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#53It's only after hitting the "start listening now" button, after you input your name and email address, that it's made clear you're only getting 5 free sessions. I feel like I've been duped into giving my personal information away. If anyone from brain.fm is reading, don't underestimate how much resentment this kind of dishonest manipulation generates.
Fake email providers are good for these situations. Giving away personal information is not necessary in many cases.
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#54I tried the Focus mode. Pretty good.
I curate a fairly large (over 46 hours) Spotify playlist for coding: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ZwAxFYf7y36Al1e1DKUlu
It has a lot of eccentric "spacemusic", but my criteria is simply to add songs when they help me focus on coding, and remove them when I find that they distract from it. It's in no particular order, so I recommend shuffle play.
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#55If you want some music to improve, well, anything, I'd sooner turn to, say, Bach, rather than to some engineer who isn't a musician.
Wise words.
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#56It's only after hitting the "start listening now" button, after you input your name and email address, that it's made clear you're only getting 5 free sessions. I feel like I've been duped into giving my personal information away. If anyone from brain.fm is reading, don't underestimate how much resentment this kind of dishonest manipulation generates.
Oh do fuck off you millenial snowflake.
Fucking hell, it's like some of you alt-right cryto cunts have never used the internet
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#57I currently use http://mynoise.net which has a huge number of various sounds by a research/sound engineer. I'd try this if I could without creating an account. Maybe I'm missing an immediate test somewhere (start listening now makes me create an account). Also please add google/github auth. I'm really over making accounts everywhere, especially if I'm just trying something out to see if I'll use it, a lot of us are n…
I second mynoise.net -- Their tone generators sound significantly better than any others I've used. My personal favorite is their "Binaural Harmonics" tones: http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/pureBinauralBrainwaveGenera...
There's a new feature where you can now build your own generator by cherry-picking stems from the entire catalog (192 generators as of last week's count).
Source: myNoise mobile app developer (currently busy rewriting the Android one in rust due to insanely costly audio codec licenses on Android)
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#58While I totally appreciate a zero-config, subscription based, AI arranged pre-recorded, modulated sounds bundle, my personal preference would be to gravitate towards an area where I can control the mix. Something like https://asoftmurmur.com/ The reason is that my choice of music depends on my mood. e.g. If I met a cute girl on my way to getting a coffee in the morning, I want to listen to birds chirp with the sound…
They do have different tracks, and you can skip to the next one.
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#59Just FYI your site is VERY broken on my mobile device (iPhone se Ios11 safari). First the home page loads nicely then before I even have a chance to scroll I’m redirected to home.brain.fm where it loads painfully slow (js heavy?) and when it loads is missing ~60% or content and just looks like a empty template. Totally unuasble. It does sound cool as an idea though.
they have an iphone app with offline mode
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#60If you're looking for Trance music to write code to, try these podcasts on iTunes: - Markus Shulz Presents Global DJ Broadcast - Above and Beyond: Group Therapy There are many more, these two are my favorites.
I liked these, along with Perfecto Podcast and a few others, but then I found Deep Sunset House and Progressive. I liked it even better, in large part because they don't interrupt the music with talk of their latest show etc.
brain.fm seems to work for me, so I bought a lifetime subscription back when it was available, but the iOS app is flaky enough that I don't use it that often. I don't understand what the "AI" is doing for me, but it makes the experience worse. I'd rather have a static set of music files that are in the app so that I can play them offline (e.g., while traveling). Or even better, not in the app so that I can put them into a music player. The app does have an offline mode but it's awkward.
I recently learned Pzizz (which is nice for sleep) added a focus mode. I should try that sometime. Their app is much more reliable than brain.fm's app. However they don't have a lifetime purchase option, and I almost never sign up for subscription services, so I'm only using the free version.