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MyNoise – Background Noise Generators

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Post by shipman05 »

bgro wrote: post #89
shipman05 wrote: post #33

YouTube Premium is great for this sort of thing. There are thousands of ambient noise and focus music playlists on there. No ads + music for a reasonable price. I've been a Google/YouTube Music subscriber for years. Every once in a while I think about switching to Spotify or Apple Music since most of my friends are on there, but for my usage, there is no feature parity.

Reasonable price? Is paying more than a Netflix subscription reasonable to have no ads on content with no expanded content library?

On its own, no, but for a full featured music service with ad-free YT as an extra perk it seems reasonably priced. Same price as Spotify which doesn't have the YT perk.

Re: MyNoise – Background Noise Generators

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Post by robbomacrae »

audiosampling wrote: post #36

Thanks for the kind mention! I am Stephane, the person behind that website/project. I see a lot of people having concerns about the title - Background Sound Canceller - and they are right. That title is not mine, but poster's own. I describe my project as "Background Noise Generators", or sometimes as as "Non-Distracting Noises and Music". They are not sound cancellers but sound maskers . The idea is to create a nois…

Thanks Stephane,

We use this app on all of our devices for helping the kids (and ourselves) to sleep. My only concern is that they will grow up dependent on it!

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Post by quantisan »

shreyshnaccount wrote: post #8
ssl232 wrote: post #7

I expected a website offering to use your microphone to record, invert and cancel background noise via the speakers. Turns out the website is offering prerecorded sounds instead, not really cancelling anything. Still though, surely someone has tried my idea? It would likely need some adjustability to match the phase delay between microphone and ears-via-speakers but I guess it could work.

I don't think it can be done.. active noise cancellation needs to be really really fast and is done using dedicated hardware afaik.

We programmed this at a company hackathon a while back. We pivoted and presented it as an "open office eavesdropper" because our naive algorithm amplifies distant speeches pretty well unexpectedly. https://github.com/Quantisan/nullwave
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