Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
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Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#2$7/month for AI arranged pieces of human written music.
Here is their white paper.
https://brain.fm/assets/pdfs/new_white_paper_unformatted.pdf
This appears to be the extent of their claim:
"Behavioral results suggested this music did help people over time, but the differences in the brain appeared first, were easier to see, and verified that the experimental manipulation (added modulation) was having a measurable impact on brain activity beyond auditory cortex"
Continuing down the rabbit hole, here is their grant application:
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1720698
They are pursuing publication of a paper, but I can't find anything about it beyond what is on their website.
Also found this other FAQ paper:
https://www1.brain.fm/assets/pdfs/science_FAQ.pdf
They claim their music can improve slow-wave sleep, although this study looked at just three subjects
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#3$7/month for AI arranged pieces of human written music. Here is their white paper. https://brain.fm/assets/pdfs/new_white_paper_unformatted.pdf This appears to be the extent of their claim: "Behavioral results suggested this music did help people over time, but the differences in the brain appeared first, were easier to see, and verified that the experimental manipulation (added modulation) was having a measurable im…
They do not seem to actually cite a paper for their claims, but I do wonder whether they use an active baseline for control group (i.e. music that is not theirs) rather than a passive baseline (no music). For myself, I wonder if Bach would do just as well for focus.
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#4This is AI snakeoil.
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#5$7/month for AI arranged pieces of human written music. Here is their white paper. https://brain.fm/assets/pdfs/new_white_paper_unformatted.pdf This appears to be the extent of their claim: "Behavioral results suggested this music did help people over time, but the differences in the brain appeared first, were easier to see, and verified that the experimental manipulation (added modulation) was having a measurable im…
They do not seem to actually cite a paper for their claims, but I do wonder whether they use an active baseline for control group (i.e. music that is not theirs) rather than a passive baseline (no music). For myself, I wonder if Bach would do just as well for focus.
I've been using them on and off for a while and I have found the focus mode quite good. If anything sometimes it's too good, I almost feel wired like when I've drank too much coffee, but it has helped me when I need to get stuck into something that I'm procrastinating on.
When I was travelling last year I used the nap / sleep mode a bit and I found it did help if I was finding it hard to sleep.
Of course this is totally subjective so your mileage may vary.
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
They do not seem to actually cite a paper for their claims, but I do wonder whether they use an active baseline for control group (i.e. music that is not theirs) rather than a passive baseline (no music). For myself, I wonder if Bach would do just as well for focus.
I've been using them on and off for a while and I have found the focus mode quite good. If anything sometimes it's too good, I almost feel wired like when I've drank too much coffee, but it has helped me when I need to get stuck into something that I'm procrastinating on. When I was travelling last year I used the nap / sleep mode a bit and I found it did help if I was finding it hard to sleep. Of course this is tota…
Worth the price in your mind?
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#7I bought their lifetime subscription when it first came out, and it's wonderful. I would recommend, I listen to it nearly daily.
Here are more detailed thoughts: https://medium.com/@kentf/nootropic-review-brain-fm-addddeee...
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#8I'm not sure how I came across them, but i did several years ago when they were first starting. I think I paid some amount of cash for a "lifetime" subscription.
I regularly and routinely return to the site when I really want to concentrate. I might drift back to Spotify for interesting tunes, but whenever I want to really focus on work brain.fm works (for me) much better than "regular" music. As always, everyone is different.
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#9Assuming OP is related to brain.fm. Are you planning to do a Black Friday sale on lifetime subscription?
Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep
#10Just FYI your site is VERY broken on my mobile device (iPhone se Ios11 safari). First the home page loads nicely then before I even have a chance to scroll I’m redirected to home.brain.fm where it loads painfully slow (js heavy?) and when it loads is missing ~60% or content and just looks like a empty template. Totally unuasble. It does sound cool as an idea though.