If 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

If 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.