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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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Post by sealo »

anigbrowl wrote: post #11
sealo wrote: 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…

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.

very clever, my brother played with this type of effect in flash a year or so back, but I think because I knew it was fake it just wasn't the same hahah.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by sealo »

robin_reala wrote: post #12
sealo wrote: 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…

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

I'll put it on the list :)

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by sealo »

0x0 wrote: post #17
davidism wrote: post #2

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

Wow, the comments in the html source there really has quite the attitude.

Yes those source comments are pretty full on hahah, especially for a relaxing site, but thunders not my thing nor "Gundam Seed Destiny - Theme of Rain".

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by jeffool »

0x0 wrote: post #17
davidism wrote: post #2

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

Wow, the comments in the html source there really has quite the attitude.

I do agree, but they were probably written in the constant annoyance of people copying the sound file when he first started. (The site was much simpler. As I recall you could find the mp3's location listed simply in the source.) So attitude? Yes. But with that context, I get an annoyed attitude.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by simonbrown »

kefs wrote: post #19
davidism wrote: post #2

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!

http://simplynoise.com/ is also worth trying.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by basicallydan »

sealo wrote: 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…

Hey Neil

Very cool - I'm a big fan of rain too, it helps me sleep every night.

I don't suppose you've considered the possibility of setting up some kind of live feed of rain sounds from places in the world where rain is very common? I think that'd be interesting. Obviously, no feed would be 24/7, and setting up the infrastructure for this to work would be a lot of hard work and probably a bit more costly, but it would be super cool, huh?

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