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Chill out, listen to some rain

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Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Hi guys, thanks for the comments, I'm Neil the guy who made the site. Long time lurker on HN but never posted hahah, felix is correct I am trying to gauge interest in the project as to whether to keep working on the site, so by signing up with your email I can 'A' justify to my fiance I should keep working on it and 'B' let you guys know who are interested when I push new features etc :) @Difwif yes you are correct t…

You don't need rain samples as such; you can synthesize rain very effectively by running white noise through a vocoder, which is just one array of bandpass filters + envelope followers controlling another array of bandpass.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Hi guys, thanks for the comments, I'm Neil the guy who made the site. Long time lurker on HN but never posted hahah, felix is correct I am trying to gauge interest in the project as to whether to keep working on the site, so by signing up with your email I can 'A' justify to my fiance I should keep working on it and 'B' let you guys know who are interested when I push new features etc :) @Difwif yes you are correct t…

A transcode to Ogg/Opus would be nice for Firefox.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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post #10

Hi guys, thanks for the comments, I'm Neil the guy who made the site. Long time lurker on HN but never posted hahah, felix is correct I am trying to gauge interest in the project as to whether to keep working on the site, so by signing up with your email I can 'A' justify to my fiance I should keep working on it and 'B' let you guys know who are interested when I push new features etc :) @Difwif yes you are correct t…

I'm someone that uses rain / rain + thunder / waves on seashore sounds to help sleep - it's quite noisy where I live and these sounds mask outside interference - but I can't see myself moving away from the mp3 player (Cowon J3) solution I use to this website. The main reason would be the mp3 player does just the one thing I want, i.e. playing the sounds, and this is very power efficient; I wouldn't want to leave my PC / tablet / smartphone running this webpage.

Also, an mp3 player allows me to loop or create a playlist, for example with 'heavy thunder' at the time of night when I need the most noise-masking, and with 'light rain' when I need the least.

Finally - and, yes, I realise I might sound a bit kooky here - I want to be able to select my own loops and samples. Some mp3 sources for rain I've found on the 'net have lots of aliasing noise, and I simply can't sleep as my mind focuses on the artifacts rather than just drifting away.

A couple of the above points (especially the 'timed program' one) might be able to be addressed by your implementation. And while I think I'll stick with my implementation for now this is because I've already done the 'hard work' of setting something up; for 'beginner' or occasional noise-maskers, your site is a quick and easy solution. My suggestion, then, would be to focus on this group as a target audience. Good luck. :^)

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Is the only difference from http://www.rainymood.com/ the lack of thunder?

In my opinion rainymood is much better than this. After listening to raining.fm it became quite obvious that it's on a very short repetitive loop. Rainymood is a much longer loop and actual feels like you have your window open on a rainy day.

Another bonus point for RainyMood comes from the daily music suggestions. They even choose music from video games and anime. I've found out some great tunes from them. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnrl0tmd3k

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Is the only difference from http://www.rainymood.com/ the lack of thunder?

Rainymood.com is great, and definitely better.

I especially like their notice at the top of the source html.

| Sorry if all that sounded snarky. But seriously, there are lots of great business ideas out there. Find something you love, and do it better than anyone ever dreamed. You can't lose with that formula!

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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post #14
post #10

Hi guys, thanks for the comments, I'm Neil the guy who made the site. Long time lurker on HN but never posted hahah, felix is correct I am trying to gauge interest in the project as to whether to keep working on the site, so by signing up with your email I can 'A' justify to my fiance I should keep working on it and 'B' let you guys know who are interested when I push new features etc :) @Difwif yes you are correct t…

I'm someone that uses rain / rain + thunder / waves on seashore sounds to help sleep - it's quite noisy where I live and these sounds mask outside interference - but I can't see myself moving away from the mp3 player (Cowon J3) solution I use to this website. The main reason would be the mp3 player does just the one thing I want, i.e. playing the sounds, and this is very power efficient; I wouldn't want to leave my P…

@mb_72 I do exactly the same when sleeping mate, phone with 30min rain track on loop for masking noise ;)

I agree for now the target user is a quick fix audience, but in future who knows!

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