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Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep

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Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep

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Post by samsolomon »

I purchased a lifetime subscription to Brain.fm about two years ago. I use the focus mode almost exclusively and appreciate the subtle variability between the tracks. Would any other series of lo-fi track would produce the same results? I don't know.

I think I paid about $50 for it and think it was absolutely worth it. Knowing what I know now, I'd say even the $150 full price lifetime subscription is a good value. From their website it doesn't appear that they offer lifetime subscriptions anymore, which is unfortunate. I don't know if I would pay monthly for this service.

For those of you that already purchased Brain.fm—if you prefer a separate application for music, I would checkout Fluid App. It essentially turns the Brain.fm website into a windowed application. https://fluidapp.com/

Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep

#83

Post by forrest92 »

Tried it based on all the positive reviews here and really didn't like it. A lot of their modes had some heavy noise distortion that distracted me more than it calmed me. I am really not sure why people would choose something like this over just scouring youtube and spotify.

Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep

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Post by awb »

SuddsMcDuff wrote: post #52

It's only after hitting the "start listening now" button, after you input your name and email address, that it's made clear you're only getting 5 free sessions. I feel like I've been duped into giving my personal information away. If anyone from brain.fm is reading, don't underestimate how much resentment this kind of dishonest manipulation generates.

For free ambient background sounds, check out Noisli: https://www.noisli.com/

Not affiliated, just a fan.

Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep

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Post by Humdeee »

swozey wrote: post #16

I currently use http://mynoise.net which has a huge number of various sounds by a research/sound engineer. I'd try this if I could without creating an account. Maybe I'm missing an immediate test somewhere (start listening now makes me create an account). Also please add google/github auth. I'm really over making accounts everywhere, especially if I'm just trying something out to see if I'll use it, a lot of us are n…

Not sure why so many places do this. Their account database has to be polluted with 1 time only logins (the majority like you and I just exit before creation). Asking for an account before anything is the quickest way to make sure I'll never think of your product again. This is like internet behaviour 101.

To Brainfm: Five to ten seconds of time is generous of users to give, you have to make it count.

Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep

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Post by brosirmandude »

barik wrote: post #13
JamesCoyne wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worth the price in your mind?

It's hard to say if it was worth the price. I purchased a lifetime subscription a while back at a discounted rate. I'm not sure if this a product that I would pay for monthly perpetually though. Brain.fm does "work" in that it definitely has helped me focus, but I think one could craft a Spotify playlist manually with some effort in order to achieve a similar effect.

I think the key words here are "with some effort". Ultimately anything is potentially worth the price depending on the amount of effort a person is willing to dedicate to solving something vs having it "solved" for them.

Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep

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Post by sprsquish »

SuddsMcDuff wrote: post #52

It's only after hitting the "start listening now" button, after you input your name and email address, that it's made clear you're only getting 5 free sessions. I feel like I've been duped into giving my personal information away. If anyone from brain.fm is reading, don't underestimate how much resentment this kind of dishonest manipulation generates.

I agree that they aren't exactly up-front about their model. They do provide a link to a pricing page that lays out the tiers: https://brain.fm/pricing

Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep

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Post by pmontra »

SuddsMcDuff wrote: post #52

It's only after hitting the "start listening now" button, after you input your name and email address, that it's made clear you're only getting 5 free sessions. I feel like I've been duped into giving my personal information away. If anyone from brain.fm is reading, don't underestimate how much resentment this kind of dishonest manipulation generates.

I stopped at the login / registration prompt. They don't even give a demo before signing in.

Re: Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep

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Post by Raphmedia »

RyanOD wrote: post #30
swozey wrote: post #16

I currently use http://mynoise.net which has a huge number of various sounds by a research/sound engineer. I'd try this if I could without creating an account. Maybe I'm missing an immediate test somewhere (start listening now makes me create an account). Also please add google/github auth. I'm really over making accounts everywhere, especially if I'm just trying something out to see if I'll use it, a lot of us are n…

I too would explore this if there was a way that didn't require me to create an account.

You don't need an account to visit https://mynoise.net/noiseMachines.php

The only exceptions being the super generators which are pages where multiples sound generators are mixed together on the same page.

Edit: It was confusing how this message is under the myNoise discussion thread. The parent comment of my answer was talking about Brain.fm

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