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I've listened to Brain.fm since this past February, and it is truly amazing. They have Focus, Relax, and Sleep, but I've only ever listened to Focus. It's like
by mangeletti 10y ago
I've listened to Brain.fm since this past February, and it is truly amazing.
They have Focus, Relax, and Sleep, but I've only ever listened to Focus. It's like this steady stream of some kind of electronically generated music that changes each 30 minutes. I set it to 2 hours, and then I usually take a small break when it ends. I'll turn it on and literally get into the zone immediately; writing line after line of code without even realizing how quickly I'm working. It's like getting on a train to the Matrix or something.
Link: http://brain.fm/ http://brain.fm/
- messutied 10y agoTrying it, pretty cool! thanks
- lordnacho 10y agoWow, great link. This is just what I've been looking for. One does wonder how much of it is expectation effect. I mean if I didn't know the Benny Hill tune and it was labelled "focus" would it still work?
- mangeletti 10y agoI don't think it is a placebo effect for me, because there were times when it was less effective, based on the track that it started with - or when I would hear a specific set of tracks too many times and begin to recognize the patterns too closely. At a point mid-summer, the effectiveness wore down for a while - I even asked Aaron (one of the founders, but also available via their little support window in the corner) about adding new tracks to Focus, which I'm sure others had also requested, because they added a bunch of new tracks and it became even more effective than before. They also seem to have removed some of the tracks that weren't very effective.
- doneallison 10y agoI have also been loving Brain.fm—no other "focus music" I have tried has worked so well. If anyone here tries it and likes it, there is actually a pretty good discount on various subscription types that expires in a few hours: https://shop.theawesomer.com/sales/brain-fm-lifetime-subscription https://shop.theawesomer.com/sales/brain-fm-lifetime-subscri... The discounts are not actually as steep as the site claims (for example, lifetime is normally $150, not $200), but they are still quite good.
- pixard 10y agoThanks for the link. I really liked the music so ended up getting it.
- trts 10y agoCurrently the Digg Store has a lifetime subscription for $39: https://store.digg.com/sales/brain-fm-lifetime-subscription https://store.digg.com/sales/brain-fm-lifetime-subscription
- MOARDONGZPLZ 10y agoI have never used the Digg store, they sent me 10% off though for signing up. So got it for even less expensive.
- findjashua 10y agothanks for the link, purchased!
- ge96 10y agoJust like that it has rained
- choward 10y ago"Lifetime" subscription? What does that mean? The lifetime of brain.fm?
- michaelgrafl 10y agoNo. It means if you're the last living customer of brain.fm, they will be forced by the authorities to operate their service till your children decide to take you off of life support.
- daveguy 10y agoYes. Lifetime of the company. Companies have the ability to ditch nearly all obligations in bankruptcy.
- q-base 10y agoI have always just used the same hour long mixes on repeat. But will try this out and see. Thanks!
- 6stringmerc 10y agoAs a musician, I can guess this works on a base level because I like "white noise" type things too when working - specifically the laundry. If I have laundry going, I can focus and write / work on clay / draw with attention that music just simply won't allow for some reason. I guess what I'm inferring is that Focus is probably more aligned with white noise than an actual music listening experience.
- pYQAJ6Zm 10y agoI tend to always keep a fan running for the same reason. Even when the weather doesn’t make it necessary – I just put in a corner of the room facing against the walls. Its noise helps. With music, instead, the less I know a piece the more attention it draws. I can’t work with background music for this reason. But Brain.fm barely has this effect on me, curiously.
- anthony_romeo 10y agoI guess the difference is that music for listening is intended to capture attention, whereas music for focus should direct attention to where you want.
- mixedCase 10y agoIf you like white noise, it might help you to save on electricity turning off the fan and trying one of these two aliases I keep around for noisy places: Pink noise (not sure if it's actually pink noise): play -c 2 -n synth pinknoise band -n 2500 4000 tremolo 0.03 5 reverb 20 gain Ocean: play -n -n --combine merge synth pinknoise band -n 1200 1800 tremolo 50 10 tremolo 0.14 70 tremolo 0.2 50 gain -10 The play binary is provided by SoX (sox.sourceforge.net). Worth mentioning that I did not create these, but I cannot recall where exactly I got them from.
- notdang 10y agoOr with USS Enterprise background play -c2 -n synth whitenoise band -n 100 24 band -n 300 100 gain +20
- weaksauce 10y agoI agree that it's like short circuiting into the zone but I am afraid of using it too much and it losing its effectiveness.
- solutionyogi 10y agoIs the website generally slow OR it's getting hammered with HN traffic?
- epalmer 10y agoI love brain.fm as well. Use the focus music. I have hearing aids and a wireless transmitter so people don't even know I am listening to anything. When I do mindless stuff I put on google play and listen to whatever I feel like. Might be Buffet, Hot Tuna or even just environmental music.
- om42 10y agoLooks like it is getting hammered with HN traffic and they posted their iOS app on Product Hunt yesterday too. Their iOS app eventually comes around to working (crashes sometimes when trying to listen to music) -- but they just released it + HN/PH traffic so its a good problem to have
- jkalmadi 10y agoApologies! We're getting hammered with HN and Product Hunt traffic. The team is on it. - Junaid
- __david__ 10y agoDo they have any examples of what it sounds like that I can hear without creating an account?
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- JulienRbrt 10y agoYes, you can use the trial: https://brain.fm/app?v=0000#!/trial https://brain.fm/app?v=0000#!/trial
- mfringel 10y agoI don't hear any music. I click to start and it pops up a login page.
- kbenson 10y agoSame here. Seriously, while I think some people might dismiss your comment as snark, I genuinely was interested in this service, but am unwilling to create an account just to get a sample. Sites need to realize that "creating an account", while it appears as simple as supplying a few bits of information, anyone that cares about their time or security will find a few snags. First, the email address. I don't give my email address away without thought as to whether this service will contact me in the future, how often, and about what. If I'm just trying to get an idea what you offer, I don't want to have to worry about you abusing that address in the future. My inbox is busy enough, thank you, I don't want to have to deal with you later if I've decided I'm not interested. Second, the password. When linked to a global identifier like an email address, I'm stuck with the choice of using an easily remembered password or password template that I reserve for low interest sites that the accounts don't really matter on and the reduced security this entails, or coming up with a unique secure password (which either entails my trying to be random or a tool). Now, I could generate a fictitious email and password just to try out your site (because I'm sure as hell not going to go through the effort of making a real separate email for you), but that entails me making a random email that isn't already used (what do you want to bet foo@example.com is already taken, or that domain is barred because they use it in testing?), and I don't want to have to think about that, I'm trying to get a quick idea about your service. So, to site developers who gate examples of their service too aggressively, keep in mind every time I'm mildly interested in your service and you gate more info with a free account form, I groan internally. Of the mild interest I felt, and the feeling that made me groan inside, which do you think wins in the end?
- egjerlow 10y agoNot arguing against your general points here, just wanted to say that using a password manager (I use KeePassX + Dropbox) has made the 'invent password' part of the whole process that much easier for me.
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoJust started listening to it. The Focus tab so far sounds like a simplified version of music by early electronic composers of the german school: Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, etc.
- flycaliguy 10y agoMy thoughts exactly. Seems like a cool service but nothing that a well made Spotify/Apple/whatever playlist couldn't cover. Krautrock is great for working, just keep type type space type type type space type type type space
- lighttower 10y agoI signed up when they first launched. I cought lifetime membership for $25. The beta version ran my CPU to 200℅ because some funky animation on the website. That added ab ambient white noise layer from the PC fan. It's was a feature :-)
- mohsinasdf 10y agoThe lifetime subscription is currently available for $40 over at TNW deals, ending in 6 hours from the point this message was posted. So if you like the service, this is probably worth it.
- thejosh 10y agoGlad someone else had the same experience, was trying to figure out how to disable that tacky animation.
- smnplk 10y agoThere is also https://www.noisli.com/ https://www.noisli.com/
- anthony_romeo 10y agoI just tried it today. It does seem to help keep me focused on work. However, the music is a bit too anxiety inducing for my taste. Even "relaxing focus" was causing a little stress.
- phodo 10y agoFantastic app... I've been looking for something like this and appreciate you pointing me in the right direction :)
- jkalmadi 10y agoCo-founder of brain.fm here. Thanks for the love! Here's an exclusive deal on the lifetime membership for the next 24 hours. It's a $29 deal (or 80% off) for the lifetime membership. Our best offer :) Link: http://brain.fm/HN http://brain.fm/HN
- dantiberian 10y agoThat coupon code shows a negative price for the lower level memberships, not sure if that means you will be paying us for it :)
- jkalmadi 10y agothat would be a revolutionary business model it's a tiny bug, fixing now!
- mixedCase 10y agoHey, I'm really digging the Focus music. I was wondering to what headphones are you guys tuning it. It sounds awesome on my studio monitors, but it sounds like crap on my ATH-M50 cans due to the bass going over its limit unless I keep it to a rather low volume.
- intopieces 10y agoI use Bose Q25s. The noise cancellation + constant noise of brain.fm are perfect for putting me in a bubble
- gnuvince 10y agoVery cool of you, I was debating the $149 price tag, but at $30 I just paid before I could think of a reason not to. Quick question: is there a way to use an audio player (e.g., Audacious, RhythmBox, VLC) to stream the music without using a web browser? The animated light curves in the background make the browser use 100% of a whole CPU core, which isn't ideal, especially when using a laptop on battery.
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- jkalmadi 10y agoCo-founder of brain.fm here. Thanks for the love! Here's an exclusive deal on the lifetime membership for the next 24 hours. It's a $29 deal (or 80% off) for the lifetime membership. Our best offer :) Link: http://brain.fm/HN http://brain.fm/HN