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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 mattacular »

xwowsersx wrote: post #50

This is awesome. I find myself so often wanting some sound just to give me a sense of flow while I work and music can very often be too disruptive (I guess it's too exciting sometimes and not constant enough). Rain is perfect!

Have you ever tried out some ambient? Music with lyrics and a lot of electronic beat-driven stuff can be too complex and distracting while I work, especially if the problem itself is complex. Ambient always seems to do the trick though!

Check out Tim Hecker and Jon Hopkins. Also Aphex Twin has a couple albums of ambient work that is great for coding.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#53

Post by fumar »

mattacular wrote: post #51
xwowsersx wrote: post #50

This is awesome. I find myself so often wanting some sound just to give me a sense of flow while I work and music can very often be too disruptive (I guess it's too exciting sometimes and not constant enough). Rain is perfect!

Have you ever tried out some ambient? Music with lyrics and a lot of electronic beat-driven stuff can be too complex and distracting while I work, especially if the problem itself is complex. Ambient always seems to do the trick though! Check out Tim Hecker and Jon Hopkins. Also Aphex Twin has a couple albums of ambient work that is great for coding.

I would like to add. Janus, Brian Eno, Bark Psychosis, Stars of the Lid, Steve Reich, and Steve Roach.

http://janustrio.bandcamp.com/

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#55

Post by ChrisNorstrom »

There's a jquery plugin out there somewhere that loads the full width background image first, then fades it in. I think it would suit you much better.

Honestly, it's a nice site, but with only a 30 second loop of rain I am very disappoint. Your competition is http://www.rainymood.com and http://www.naturesoundsfor.me . If you're worried about bandwidth ditch the background images, minify all of the code, and extend the rain sample as it's the most important content of this site. I'd rather have a single image for the background and a longer loop sample, than a shorter loop sample and multiple background images rotating.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#56

Post by ChrisNorstrom »

chubs wrote: post #36
sealo wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@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.

http://whitenoisemp3s.com/sounds-like/rain

They're $10 each but totally worth it. Pure, no human sounds, and over an hour long each. The woman who records them is a professional and her recordings are used by various industries, from film to video game developers.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

#59

Post by kator »

khuey wrote: post #58

Heh, one of the few things I miss about the east coast after moving to SF is the rain and thunderstorms.

Funny but true I moved to the East Coast after living in Los Angeles all my life and I love the rain storms. But the Los Angeles rain storms last longer. In New York city the rain seems to come in short spurts. Once in a while we get a good rain storm. In LA it would rain for days sometimes and I really enjoyed those days even if they were few and far between.
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