Quite nice.
Next time I'm in west indies I'll make some samples. Their fat raindrops on top of metal roofs is quite pleasing.
Chill out, listen to some rain
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Re: Chill out, listen to some rain
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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…
From the source: DO NOT COPY THIS WEBSITE. If you copy this website, Tailored Music, Inc. will find out. Just look at the code below - do you really think you can understand it? Of course not. Can you find all the places where it contacts outside servers to report its location? Nope. Hey, do you know about trademarks? "Rainy Mood", "RainyMood", "RainyMood.com", and "Rain makes everything better" are trademarks of Tai…
My favorite part of his code is: `// This is stuck in an "eval" in an attempt to hide it from executing until later.'
If only Javascript had some way to call a function after a delay or event...
Re: Chill out, listen to some rain
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#74Hi 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…
> 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.
I wonder how many people would find it soothing.
Re: Chill out, listen to some rain
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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.
Nice, I love the oscillating brownian noise.
Re: Chill out, listen to some rain
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@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!
One suggestion, Volume slider. I like to play the rain behind actual music.
Definitely necessary. For the time being, I dropped these into the console:
document.getElementById('audio1').volume = .5
document.getElementById('audio2').volume = .5
Re: Chill out, listen to some rain
#77I can't if it's either audio skipping or a bad loop, but it hops about every thirty seconds or so.
@damncabbage, that is no good, can you tell me what browser and OS you are using mate? see if we can't get that sorted for you :)
Chrome 21, Ubuntu Linux (11.10).
(I don't mean to send you on a wild goose chase. Sorry about that.)
Re: Chill out, listen to some rain
#78There'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 t…
@ChrisNorstrom, Thanks for the advice Chris, we will definitely need to refine some things now that people have shown an interest.
Re: Chill out, listen to some rain
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@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!
One suggestion, Volume slider. I like to play the rain behind actual music.
@fumar ok cool volume slider added to the list, thanks.