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Chill out, listen to some rain

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Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#31
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Is the only difference from http://www.rainymood.com/ the lack of thunder?

You left out the obligatory "Being A C--t In Your Source Code" warning:

view-source:http://www.rainymood.com/

That just makes me think "what a loser"

@sealo I love the raining.fm site, definitely a neat side project. You could just start selling white noise audio through the site for affiliate commissions, if you focus on getting people to visit the site. Or make it into a simple app with one function and sell that via the site..

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#32
Perfectly cool, but like others here I'm curious how you're going to "out do" RainyMood.com. Personally, since they added the "recommended song" feature, likely in response to people so often comparing songs to couple with it (especially The Fragrance of Dark Coffee as I first saw on 4chan), I can't think of much.

I think the changing images are nice, but I think you'll need to do more. Starting with making everything except the image invisible after not moving the mouse for say, 10 seconds. Second, and while larger, better, consider using gifs instead. Up to 1920x1080, looping gifs of rainy scenes. I'll bet you could find some people to help you with that if you wanted. Let one load up, then cycle to it. I think that alone makes you look like a "premium RainyMood".

Maybe if your sound is procedurally generated, maybe adding interactive parameters like "size of rain" (size of field to sample), "amount of drops", "location" (city, rural, forest, lake), and then thunder variables. Let users set up parameters and share them with hashed urls a la "raining.fm/r/fdDiOd4dfji". And if you do use "location", then try to match the images to that.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#33
post #2

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

You left out the obligatory "Being A C--t In Your Source Code" warning: view-source: http://www.rainymood.com/ That just makes me think "what a loser" @sealo I love the raining.fm site, definitely a neat side project. You could just start selling white noise audio through the site for affiliate commissions, if you focus on getting people to visit the site. Or make it into a simple app with one function and sell that…

Never changed my opinion about a site this quickly.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#34
post #28
post #17

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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.

Internet Download Manager automatically rips the .mp3 file from RainyMood with ease.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#35
post #32

Perfectly cool, but like others here I'm curious how you're going to "out do" RainyMood.com. Personally, since they added the "recommended song" feature, likely in response to people so often comparing songs to couple with it (especially The Fragrance of Dark Coffee as I first saw on 4chan), I can't think of much. I think the changing images are nice, but I think you'll need to do more. Starting with making everythin…

@jeffool, definitely some great ideas there thanks for the suggestions, a few of which I have knocking around in my head already ;)

I certainly have plans to take it far beyond it's current state and that of anything else out there.

Thanks again!

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#36
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post #14

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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!

Please: let me buy high quality 256k mp3's of all this to put on my ipod. If i could buy enough so that i'd never notice repeated tracks, i'd love it.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#37
post #2

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

You left out the obligatory "Being A C--t In Your Source Code" warning: view-source: http://www.rainymood.com/ That just makes me think "what a loser" @sealo I love the raining.fm site, definitely a neat side project. You could just start selling white noise audio through the site for affiliate commissions, if you focus on getting people to visit the site. Or make it into a simple app with one function and sell that…

"Just look at the code below - do you really think you can understand it? Of course not." Dick.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#38
post #2

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

You left out the obligatory "Being A C--t In Your Source Code" warning: view-source: http://www.rainymood.com/ That just makes me think "what a loser" @sealo I love the raining.fm site, definitely a neat side project. You could just start selling white noise audio through the site for affiliate commissions, if you focus on getting people to visit the site. Or make it into a simple app with one function and sell that…

@josscrowcroft, I am definitely keen on developing the app to deliver the best rain experience possible for people :)
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