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Another pretty wonderful option, both for focus and for other uses of background sound is https://mynoise.net It's very customizable at a level that most tools aren't, making it easy to (for example) pare back low bass or high treble if one or the other grates on your ears whilst working -- or amp up or down background conversation depending on your taste.
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I can manage chrome's volume no problem in windows...I don't want that though. If I turn down chrome entirely then I can't hear certain youtube videos, etc. I prefer my audio setup to be maxed in the windows mixer and managed finely in individual apps. I am hoh so my preferences may be different than other though.
"hoh"?
I know this makes me sound kind of old, but this reminds me how much I miss GrooveShark. Their Ambient stream/channel (whatever they called it) was awesome. Spotify has vaguely similar function, but it is nowhere near the sophistication and convenience GrooveShark offered.
Another pretty wonderful option, both for focus and for other uses of background sound is https://mynoise.net It's very customizable at a level that most tools aren't, making it easy to (for example) pare back low bass or high treble if one or the other grates on your ears whilst working -- or amp up or down background conversation depending on your taste.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UScdOAlqXqWTOmXFgQhFA?si=...
Enjoy! :)
I wear noise-cancelling headphones with background music for focus during a majority of my working hours. I have a "flowstate" playlist on Spotify which I've curated for a few years, from which I've more recently carefully extracted only those tracks which I can happily put on individual repeat for a particular flavor of focus. None have words to distract, nor sudden changes; all have enough of a beat or groove to he…