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Show HN: My afternoon project - Pink Noise mp3.
- cr4zy 15y agoLooks like my app engine quota overran. I updated billing so should be back soon.
- ricardobeat 15y agoIsn't it completely static? (no pun intended) You could host it on GitHub Pages for free.
- prezjordan 15y agoDoes gh-pages have any bandwidth limits?
- ricardobeat 15y agoThey don't mention any. I remember someone saying that their normal traffic is so huge that GH Pages can't even make a dent on the stats.
- huhtenberg 15y agoThe sound files appear to be from [1]. What is that that you did, but to wrap a player around them? Or are these originally yours? [1] http://archive.org/details/TenMinutesOfWhiteNoisePinkNoiseAndBrownianNoise http://archive.org/details/TenMinutesOfWhiteNoisePinkNoiseAn...
- cr4zy 15y agoYep, they're creative commons. I just repackaged it on GAE to speed up downloads and simplify playing pink noise. I also turned down the volume a bit, since it's a little loud in the file: $('audio')[0].volume = .2;
- kmort 15y agoI was quite a fan of listening to pink noise at work but found after a while that I started to get aural hallucinations. It felt like my mind was finding patterns in the noise that weren't there. Probably harmless, but it did make me wonder about any lasting effects of extended exposure.
- thomasballinger 15y agoI get exactly this with white noise, subtle chime sounds on a pentatonic scale. It made me want to do the realtime frequency analysis to see if I wasn't imagining it.
- jrockway 15y agoProbably OK. People often see weird things when they are in sensory deprivation chambers. When you have no sensory input, your brain makes some up so that it has something to do. Not harmful. (Unfortunately, I never get hallucinations from sensory deprivation. Sigh.)
- dwich 15y agoI get this effect too with white and pink noise. I'm able to minimize it by playing an additional audio track with a predictable pattern, like ocean waves. That seems to satisfy the pattern-matching part of my brain.
- icki 15y agoFor those who instinctively checked the comments before googling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise
- icki 15y agoNotes: 1. Favicon does not match page background. 2. Include a link to inform people about Pink noise: what it is, what benefits it may provide, etc.
- grabastic 15y agoNice. I've been using http://simplynoise.com http://simplynoise.com at work for a long time. (Brown noise) :)
- bdwalter 15y agoI have a pink noise generator in an old audio spectrum analyzer. Guess its time to dig it out now.
- recursive 15y agoI don't mean to be rude, but I may be missing something. Surely it didn't take you an afternoon to write an audio tag?
- petercooper 15y agoIt's not the posting I find odd, but the upvotes. It's just an MP3 from archive.org being played by an audio tag, hmm?
- subsection1h 15y agopink noise < brown noise < Liquid Mind I previously listened to brown noise daily until I found Chuck Wild's Liquid Mind albums.[1] The latter don't filter out environmental noise as well as brown noise, but I've found that they help me concentrate and minimize stress when my environment isn't noisy enough to warrant brown noise. [1] http://www.liquidmindmusic.com/mp3/download.html http://www.liquidmindmusic.com/mp3/download.html
- mmhd 15y agoMac users, grab Chill from the app store. It's great.