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Don't want to hurt you, dear friend, but a lawnmower sound is quite strange to relax
Could it be that it's not the sound itself but the association with lazy summer weekend afternoons, lawnmower in the distance, that is the relaxing part?
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#33Superb! I like it a lot! A timer for going to sleep would be awesome. Towards the end, the volumne should decrease slowly. I think an alarm function for waking up would be a nice feature as well. You could set the sounds that you like and when the time comes it would slowly increase the volume over a perioad of 10-15 minutes. This way you could wake up slowly and naturally (forest + rain + thunder would work well as…
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#34Would be nice to have an independent volume control
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#35Superb! I like it a lot! A timer for going to sleep would be awesome. Towards the end, the volumne should decrease slowly. I think an alarm function for waking up would be a nice feature as well. You could set the sounds that you like and when the time comes it would slowly increase the volume over a perioad of 10-15 minutes. This way you could wake up slowly and naturally (forest + rain + thunder would work well as…
Alarm suppose to have the hardware always ON, sorry
Nevertheless, I guess many of us (at least here on HN) leave their computers on all night, so this is not a problem.
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#38http://mynoise.net/ has been around for several years and it developed the idea even further, allowing you to tune the intensity of each individual sound.