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Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by sealo » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 1:32 PM UTC

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.

It is something I am considering working towards chubs, if you head to the site and drop your email in, or just shoot me one direct I will keep you in the loop with developments.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by sharms » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 1:34 PM UTC

I personally have never heard of rainymood.com, but I did find this site pretty neat. There is probably a lesson here that it isn't "X already does this, why are you?", but that it there is likely room for more than one variation on the subject.

Great website!

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by Of_Prometheus » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 1:36 PM UTC

rane wrote: post #33

josscrowcroft wrote: post #31

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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…

Never changed my opinion about a site this quickly.

Same. I understand the motivation, but there really was no need to sound so vicious.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by fumar » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 1:41 PM UTC

I turned it on for a few minutes... Eventually it began to sound like sizzling bacon.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by Of_Prometheus » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 1:41 PM UTC

goldenchrome wrote: post #34

jeffool wrote: post #28

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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.

You can also just freely download sound clips of rain or thunder to your heart's content from Freesound.org

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by Swizec » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 1:47 PM UTC

fumar wrote: post #44

I turned it on for a few minutes... Eventually it began to sound like sizzling bacon.

I read this comment ... and it started sounding like sizzling bacon in 20 seconds.

Now I'm hungry.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by fumar » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 1:53 PM UTC

sealo wrote: post #35

jeffool wrote: 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!

One suggestion, Volume slider. I like to play the rain behind actual music.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by fchollet » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 2:03 PM UTC

josscrowcroft wrote: post #31

davidism wrote: 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…

Pompous dick-head spotted. Besides, talk of IP is not welcome on the part of somebody who embeds infringing material on their page.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by mgcross » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 2:20 PM UTC

kefs wrote: post #19

davidism wrote: post #2

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

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!

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

What kind of a presumptuous ass puts something like that at the top of their source? Tailored Music, Inc. does.

Re: Chill out, listen to some rain

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Post by xwowsersx » Sun, Aug 12, 2012, 2:37 PM UTC

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!