Love it. I want the ability to download 10 hours of it.
Use Audio Hijack? Just leave it running overnight. (A hack I know.)
Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
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Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#102Love this. A project I've had in mind for a while but realistically will never get around to building is an ambient/coding music generator that's hooked up to a metric, e.g. your project's latency, autoscale size, error rate, potentially controlling different instruments. It would be fun to be able to subconsciously monitor your system without staring at graphs.
A long time ago, a friend mentioned this exact same idea! The analogy he used was how steam engine operators became so familiar with their machines that they could tell what was going on just by listening. I'm not sure if we can really do the same with services, but it's a fun thought experiment.
You can sort of do this with a modern computer. The CPU and GPU fans spin up on increased load, and you can listen to the hard drive (the sounds correspond to some degree to the HDD indicator light). Over time you can get an idea of system activity just by listening to the machine itself.
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What problem does this solve? Is that always the point?
Our society is currently suffocating in the endless torrent of information and pointless products. Just because you aren't interested in thinking about costs of things doesn't mean they don't have costs. So yes, I want to know what is the benefit. Any thinking predicated on the notion that we should just gouge ourselves on endless amount of stuff (services, products, information) without asking any questions is fault…
The problem it addresses for me is helping me be productive at my job. That is very important for me. :-)
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#104I don't get it. I love ambient tunes and listen to them for 1-10 hours a day while doing stuff. Any time I need to focus (even when writing an email) I'll throw on my favorite ambient music. How is this any different? Why would I get a "premium" account for some random website when there's an entire catalog of ambient music on Spotify/Apple/etc that I could listen to?
$30 for lifetime is much less than Spotify, depending on how much other music you listen to.
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
The biggest differentiator may be the infinite length of tracks. Once you tune into something that fits it can be left going as long as necessary. With other services there is a need to compose play lists or restart the player when a selection ends.
Most services have a "radio" station based on that song/genre that gives you almost endless listening time for that type of content.
… but there's no continuity with radio … or not a uniform/dependable continuity, at least: the mood is different song-to-song, and there is no control over the "levers" beyond _skip_ and _like_. So, to "train" the radio stations involves interacting with them.
What if I just want to "set it and forget it?"
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#106This is neat--sounds similar to https://play.generative.fm/browse Though, that service is completely free with a pay what you can model
Came here to mention generative.fm … it's great, been using it for years.
The creator, Alex Bainter[1], posts a lot of interesting/great stuff about generative music[2,3], and recently published the collection of music theory utilities he uses for generative.fm: https://github.com/generative-music/theory
[1] https://twitter.com/alex_bainter [2] Like this interactive "How generative music works" by Tero Parviainen: https://teropa.info/loop/#/itsgonnarain [3] Or his piece on corruption loops: https://corruptionloops.alexbainter.com/
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#107Also: endel.io
Similar to flowful, endel creates generative soundscapes based on mood/need: focus, read, work out, drive, you get the picture.
I appreciated that they made a concerted effort to anchor what they did in music and scientific theory, to understand what makes for good focus, what focus is, etc.
Also cool: It uses time of day, local weather, and your activity level as inputs to its generative music, so in theory, it's very contextual.
Interestingly: was a happily paying subscriber for over a year, but lapsed because I moved out of the city, began working in a private office, and found that I no longer needed to close out the outer world to focus well :shrug: who knew?
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#108Why are some songs marked as "ADHD"? This sounds like a medical claim that you should not be making.
FWIW, while I understand your concern, I've seen a bunch of ambient sites that list this genre as ADHD. It does seem to help me. And I don't think anyone would reasonably consider a music category to be "medical advice?"
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#109Is this open source?
Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a cool idea. Something that was suggested to me with Flowful was to use some sort of body triggers, perhaps from facial recgonition through your device's camera, to determine when the user was becoming less focused. The music could then adapt to help them get back on track. So many cool possibilities.
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