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One thing I didn't realise till recently, is you don't need spotify to generate white noise if you have an iPhone/iPad, as it's an in-built function under acces
by raesene9 4y ago
One thing I didn't realise till recently, is you don't need spotify to generate white noise if you have an iPhone/iPad, as it's an in-built function under accessibility --> Audio/Visual and background sounds.
- dontbenebby 4y agoThank you for this, great way to "keep things offline", a skill that the youth are rapidly losing.
- thatguy0900 4y agoOdd thing to blame the youth for. Losing, or having stolen from them? The people on this site who make these things are the ones making those decisions, if you expect a 14 year old to take hard ethical stances on theoretical privacy rights you are crazy.
- dontbenebby 4y ago[flagged]
- dylan604 4y agoLosing could be read as not from something they did themselves, but I lose the ability to do something if it has been taken away from me.
- languageserver 4y agoto be fair I have seen more people loose precious photographs from film than from iCloud
- chucknelson 4y agoWoah, that is news to me! What’s strange is that iOS gives you no indication of where that sound is coming from…I guess I expected to be able to pause it somehow. Interesting, though!
- CamelRocketFish 4y agoTurning it off is pausing it as it’s noise and not a song.
- drorco 4y agoNice. Anyway to create a quick shortcut to this functionality? It's pretty deep inside the settings menu.
- frou_dh 4y agoTap the ear icon ("Hearing") in Control Centre. I can't remember whether that icon is included by default though.
- kejaed 4y agoYes, you can add it to Control Center https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT212775 https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT212775
- quartesixte 4y agoAs someone who suffers from a rather high sensitivity to noise (particularly noise I do not have a control over) this is game changing and will 100x my quality of life
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- alexcnwy 4y agoYes, you can set it to turn on when you triple tap the right button.
- mft_ 4y agoThanks - really good to discover this! Interesting to note the size of the samples that Apple is using: * Balanced noise: 1.8MB * Bright noise: 1.8MB * Dark noise: 1.8MB * Ocean: 62.4MB * Rain: 63.7MB * Stream: 72.1MB That's a lot of effort to ensure your background water sounds are (presumably) high fidelity and non-repeating!
- amelius 4y agoDoesn't the finite size imply that they are in fact repeating?
- throwoutway 4y agoYes. I can detect repetition of ocean “white noise” if the length is too short. But a long enough track is just fine
- natly 4y agoIn this case they're probably recordings, but you could imagine that they'd be procedurally generated in which case not necessarily. A call to `Math.random()` is a finite length 'file' but won't repeat.
- aftbit 4y agoA call to Math.random() will in fact repeat eventually. The backing PRNG has a finite period.
- shhsshs 4y agoYeah, after it loops in several hundred years and I hear a pattern I've already heard, I'll be really annoyed!
- MichaelBurge 4y agoThe human brain is also finite, so even a true infinite random sequence would give the listener finitely many states. So it doesn't matter whether a sequence is finite or not.
- kibwen 4y agoOr if you have any device with a web browser, since there are a zillion free sites for generating white noise. Here's an arbitrary top search result which appears to be a highly configurable noise generator: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php
- paskozdilar 4y agoMyNoise is awesome. The fact that the site author literally travels around the world and records noises makes it so much more interesting to me that your average digitally-generated-white-noise app.
- app4soft 4y agoAnd here is generated "Noise Colors"[0] album on Spotify.[1] [0] https://mynoise.net/Albums/view.php?album=NoiseColors https://mynoise.net/Albums/view.php?album=NoiseColors [1] https://open.spotify.com/album/4nxNOcgs2BNBYL7k7ywR5n https://open.spotify.com/album/4nxNOcgs2BNBYL7k7ywR5n
- jbmny 4y agoMyNoise is a really high quality, well maintained website run by a single person. He even goes out and does his own field recordings. I highly recommend it.
- akx 4y ago... With microphones he builds himself, too. https://mynoise.net/microphones.php https://mynoise.net/microphones.php
- car 4y agoAnd really cheap, just $650!
- b3morales 4y ago+1 There are associated mobile apps as well, that are not the prettiest, but provide access to the whole library. Really a gem.
- gyan 4y agoFFmpeg has a colored noise generator. http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#anoisesrc http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#anoisesrc
- INTPenis 4y ago
- jedberg 4y agoThis is awesome! Is it bad that my mind immediately went to how to use it to prank someone? Turn on white noise and then turn on "only when unlocked" and set it to a really low volume. Drive someone nuts trying to figure out why it seems like they hear a noise every time they unlock their phone. I won't do this though because I'm pretty sure it would be a violation of the Geneva conventions.
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- al_borland 4y agoI have a ‘LectroFan, it’s just a little box with a bunch of fan/white noises in it. From what I remember it generates them vs just playing an audio clip on a loop. I prefer it to running something on my phone for 8 hours at a time. I also have a mini one for when I travel, which has a battery and can double as a BT speaker. I do sometimes forget this when I travel, especially for short trips, so the iPhone feature is a good reminder. I think I heard about it before, but without using it, it’s easy to forget.
- xwdv 4y agoThis comment could cause lost revenue for these people. Take it down.
- winternett 4y agoI've worked my A$$ of literally for over 5 years now to put music on Spotify, through out those 5 years, I have about 30 songs up there, All in all I've probably only gotten about 1,400 streams generating about $20... I'm lucky I taught myself web development and project management, because with all the promise the Internet had when I was going through college, it seems that the only actual opportunity is in creating web sites and apps. Fairness is simply not possible on these platforms, you can have the most polished product and sit totally ignored because of all the scams and schemes, I can't imagine how many people who don't have alternative opportunities like I did that are literally dying just trying to get a chance to be heard on a fiasco operation like this that literally and happily pays others to do absolutely nothing, while they charge creators for subscriptions and ads. It's a really frickin bleak indicator as to the value of human labor going into the future... If the people who aren't providing value constantly win over the people that strive to, everything falls apart, and we'll end up in a total scheme economy. As valid creators, we all need to back off and stop posting anything at all on social media and big platforms to highlight the total crap that is popular on the platform. A much better way is to create and maintain our own small independent sites and to link to each other more. You can literally run a fan or leave a radio on a dead frequency to get white noise... You don't need a streaming service for that. This is ridiculous, and the article only serves to promote this brand of fraud. It's not capitalism, it's simply fraud from many facets.
- nyolfen 4y agofraud? it sounds like your music just isnt very good
- dinkleberg 4y agoEven if their music is good it’s hard to get discovered in a world of millions (billions?) of tracks. Unless you’re lucky, you’ll need to do some marketing of some sort to pull in listeners.
- winternett 4y agoAgreed... Marketing is indeed a necessity, but Social Media was developed under the premise of providing free "social" marketing for artists that aren't profiting from their work yet... These platforms have undermined that now into requiring absolutely all artists to pay for ads in order to be viewed, which is completely contradicting their original EULAs... Spotify in a way is a social platform, but more-so it is also a marketing platform that despite allowing people to promote, also creates a dynamic where success is tiered and artificially hard-limited by their algorithms. Content displayed on the front pages of sites like Spotify, YouTube, Reddit (etc.), get the most views and plays. These sites intentionally only have front pages, with pre-designated featured content. That means that only the artists that land there get the lion share of the revenue from those sites... They provide little to no relative potential for success or visibility to the majority of artists that contribute content that they benefit from, and that makes the entire industry a pyramid scheme. Unknown and unsponsored artists cannot succeed in this model, and even if they do somehow find an opportunity, they are often subject to predatory contracts from record labels and the larger industry as well. It's really insane what goes on behind the curtains.
- HidyBush 4y agoAnother day, another unknown Apple feature buried down in menus that has just made me uninstall a dedicated app
- yborg 4y agoThere are a lot of useful features lumped under 'Accessibility' because I guess Apple couldn't figure out what to do with them.
- michaelbuck 4y agoI never expected to find a feature like that in the settings menu of an operating system. Is there any history to this? How’d a white noise generator end up in the official Apple accessibility settings? The idea of having a setting that makes my phone emit continuous noise until I turn it off is absolutely wild to me.
- askafriend 4y agoI think you can ask Siri to play it for you which is probably how most people discover it. My guess is the accessibility setting is for people that can't use Siri for whatever reason?
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago> for whatever reason Weird reasons like...not trying to create a voice profile of yourself for corporations?
- askafriend 4y agoI didn't mean for that phrase to be flippant. I literally just meant whatever reasons there are. There's plenty of good ones. Some people are mute, some people have speech issues, etc.
- brianzelip 4y agoHmmm, what iOS version? V14 doesn’t seem to have background sounds u det the Audio/Visual menu.
- CamelRocketFish 4y agoiOS15