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Listen to the Clouds
- craigds 10y agoThis is a great background sound for working. I have the airport chatter at medium and the ambient music at low, and I listen to a busy airport that I can't understand at all (Santiago is a good one) so I don't engage my brain too much. I'm finding this incredible for helping with focus.
- amelius 10y agoThe sound of a cafe can also be a nice background sound. E.g., https://coffitivity.com/ https://coffitivity.com/
- manigandham 10y agoNice UI. http://youarelistening.to/jfk_atc http://youarelistening.to/jfk_atc is a similar service.
- puranjay 10y agoHe mentions that it was inspired by YouAreListening.to
- 7373737373 10y agoWow, this is incredibly soothing. I just followed a plane taking off on https://www.flightradar24.com https://www.flightradar24.com
- andai 10y agoWow.. that's a lot of planes!
- dyml 10y agoWow, surprised to see this on HN! Creator here, if you have any feedback, please just comment here or ping me on twitter @andersaberg, I'll take airport requests etc there :) Have a good one, A
- asinno 10y agoreally cool project! care to share the soundcloud playlist?
- homero 10y agohttps://soundcloud.com/idontlikewords https://soundcloud.com/idontlikewords
- elwesties 10y agoSeems to max out my CPU on MBP macOS Sierra Chrome 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit)
- olavgg 10y agoSame issue here! Otherwise great work, really cool!
- dyml 10y agoThat's really surprising. I have no problems on my win machine which I guess is why I missed it. Is it the same problem even if you run it in backgorund? Have some listeners that will pause the youtube video when that happens (which should minimize CPU)
- mike_pol 10y ago
- danso 10y agoGreat idea and lovely implementation. If I could make one nitpick, it would be to add some tags so that it shows up as a Twitter card for when people tweet about it: https://dev.twitter.com/cards/overview https://dev.twitter.com/cards/overview https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator (FWIW, looks fine on the Facebook linter because of the og:meta tags https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=http%3A%2F%2Flistentothe.cloud%2F https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/?q=http%...)
- felixjendrusch 10y agoAlso works very well with some electronic music in the background, for example: https://soundcloud.com/thuishaven-amsterdam/daniel-bortz-thuishaven-wintercircus-13-maart-2016 https://soundcloud.com/thuishaven-amsterdam/daniel-bortz-thu...
- dziungles 10y agoYou can also listen to the train ride ambient in Norway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pVWfzsgLoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pVWfzsgLoQ
- creativityhurts 10y agoOn a similar note, I like listening to the videos of this guy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVp5RGNn_CpRKUyGaQVidHg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVp5RGNn_CpRKUyGaQVidHg He has long drives, mostly around NY area.
- amelius 10y agoIf only my office chair had pneumatic actuators to recreate the feeling of sitting in an actual train :)
- mattbgates 10y agoWow.
- thunderrabbit 10y agoThis.
- mattbgates 10y agoWhy would people downvote this comment? Seriously? I was saying Wow because I was able to listen to conversations through airlines in Paris and Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, they were speaking English through traffic control. I think this is quite an amazing tool.
- dyml 10y agoReading this makes me smile. Thank you
- Mithaldu 10y agoQuite simple: The content of a post saying "wow" is of roughly the same value as upvoting, but takes people reading the comments more time to parse, without adding anything useful to the conversation. I find the "General Conduct" section of SA rules explains that kind of thing simply and clearly and in terms that apply basically across the entire internet. http://www.somethingawful.com/forum-rules/forum-rules/ http://www.somethingawful.com/forum-rules/forum-rules/ The HN rules kind of don't explain this kind of thing as they assume you're tech- and internet-savvy already.
- vanderreeah 10y agoIt's a perfectly respectable response but as I understand it HN wants to keep noise to a minimum, and I guess the downvoters think that since "wow" doesn't actually contribute to discussion in any substantial way it should not be here. Don't take it personally, I think it's just an attempt to keep the thread clean.
- arkitaip 10y agoYou have to keep in mind that even the humans on HN are robots or robotic in nature. Wanton externalizations of emotional states is undefined behavior and simply treated as noise by the hive mind.
- krzrak 10y agoThe difference between name (...Clouds) and address (...cloud) really triggers my ocd.
- dyml 10y agoI got you covered man! http://listentothe.cloud/s http://listentothe.cloud/s
- matt4077 10y agoDo people easily understand these transmissions? I always think there must be something wrong with either my English, or my ears because I barely understand a number here and there, even with headphones.
- meredydd 10y agoYou really do get used to it. First time I got into a light plane, I had exactly the same reaction as you - it was all gobbledegook. By the time I took my first proper lesson, I'd started reading the textbook, and it was mostly making sense. Within a few hours I was fluent, and things like this recording made sense. The big thing is understanding the vocabulary, and the things they're likely to say. It's called the "pop-out effect" - once you know what you're looking for, it's much easier to find it. You can think of it in Bayesian terms - an increased prior on certain words and phrases makes them much quicker to detect. (I will also say that many people find American aviators/ATC much harder work. They use less standardised phraseology - perhaps because they don't have so many different native languages all crowded up into a small airspace. See if, eg, Amsterdam or Dublin is easier for you to understand.)
- OmIsMyShield 10y agoWhen I did my PPL one of the instructors gave us a CD full of recordings that we could listen to to train our ear for it. Matching that to transcripts helped - and it also helps once you know the lingo, since it's mostly a limited set of words and the phraseology has a specific structure. For example: Altitudes and flight levels: 3,500 is spoken as "three thousand five hundred". 13,500 is spoken as "one three thousand five hundred". But other numbers (like times, directions, etc) have every digit spoken, for example 10 minutes is "one zero minutes" or wind direction 220 is "wind direction two two zero". Speed reading would be something like "one niner zero knots" for 190 kt. The sentence structure is also relatively strictly defined, for instance at an unattended airport you would always transmit in this order: (1) where you are (2) who you are (3) what you intend (4) repeat where you are So you'd say something like: "Swartkops traffic(1), small Jabiru Kilo India Tango(2), left downwind for runway one eight, touch and go(3), at Swartkops(4)" This kind of strict structure and limited lexicon does make it understandable after a bit of practice, since you are expecting certain words to show up.
- 3legcat 10y agoI find the voice of the operator at HK airport incredibly soothing.
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- bamboozled 10y agoIt almost sounds like it's pre-recorded speech actually. But I agree, very relaxing.
- malditojavi 10y agoThis reminds me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Service_Broadcasting_(band) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Service_Broadcasting_(b...
- hans0l074 10y agoBeen listening to this since I discovered it on HN this morning. A lot of it reminds of the Vangelis/Blade Runner OST. Great work!
- dajohnson89 10y agoSoma.fm has this for San Francisco police scanner radio traffic. https://somafm.com/sf1033/ https://somafm.com/sf1033/
- johnchristopher 10y agoI love Soma.fm. I feel the SF radio was better two or three years ago. The background music was less in the front, the mix was more seamless.
- dajohnson89 10y agoAgreed. Rusty, if you're out there, kick up the police scanner!
- askmike 10y agoIn a way this gives a new meaning to the term "live music". Especially since this is an existing style of music: anywhere from Bowie[1] to more niche bands like Public Service Broadcasting[2] and Lemon Jelly[3]. [1] David Bowie - Space Oddity [2] Public Service Broadcasting - Go! [3] Lemon Jelly - Space Walk
- soundwave106 10y agoFirst thing I thought of was another more niche musician (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Rimbaud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Rimbaud) who released a number of tracks in the early 1990s under the name "Scanner". Which, as the name suggests, was ambient music over recorded snippets of conversation picked over radio scanners.
- arkitaip 10y agoVery beautiful and serene. Thank you.
- bob1122 10y agoOh my this is majestic!
- kelvin0 10y agoWow, what is it about atmospheric music combined with radio chatter? On their own they don't have much of an impact on me , but combined I feel like I am Major Tom. Awesome. I also recommend the ISS feed (with orbital video!)
- iamatworknow 10y agoKinda wish I would've come up with this idea, haha. I've been listening to LiveATC.net on and off while I work for years now.
- mgkimsal 10y agoSuggestion - let me link to a specific airport. http://listentothe.cloud/#hkg http://listentothe.cloud/#hkg http://listentothe.cloud/#dtw http://listentothe.cloud/#dtw etc...
- squeaky-clean 10y agoWorking on code for an airline while listening to this is oddly soothing. Thank you for sharing this :)
- sun_of_deep 10y agoThere's even the International Space Station feed. Awesome!
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